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The MediaBay
• “Auto Play New Results Selection” works as for audio
files, see above.
The Filters section
With the MediaBay, you can perform very refined file
searches. You have two possibilities: Logical or Attribute
Filtering.
Applying a logical filter
Logical filtering is similar to working with the Logical Edi-
tor (Cubase only), see the chapter “The Logical Editor,
Transformer, and Input Transformer” on page 440.
If you click the Logical button in the Filters section, you
can set up complex conditions that must be met for files to
be found. Here, you can search for a specific file attribute
value, for example.
Proceed as follows:
1. In the Locations section, select the Location in which
you want to search for files.
2. Activate the Logical search mode by clicking on the
Logical button in the Filters section.
A condition line appears.
3. Click in the leftmost field, to open the Select Filter At-
tributes dialog.
The dialog shows an alphabetical list of file attributes you can choose
from. At the top of the list, the MediaBay maintains an automatically gen
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erated list of the last 5 attributes selected during previous searches.
4. Select the attribute(s) you want to use, and click OK.
• Note that you can select more than one attribute. This
creates an OR condition: the files found will match either
one or the other attribute.
5. Click OK to set the attribute(s) to search for.
6. On the Condition pop-up menu next to the Attribute
pop-up menu, select the desired option.
The following options are available:
7. Enter the text or number you are looking for in the field
to the right.
The Results list is automatically updated, showing only the files that cor-
respond to your search conditions.
Ö For all conditions except “range”, you can enter more
than one string in the text field (separate the different
search strings with a space). These strings form an AND
condition, i.
e. the files that are found will match all the
strings entered in the field.
• To add another filter line, click the “+” button to the right
of the text field.
This way, you can add up to five filter lines in which you can define further
search conditions. Note that two or more filter lines form an AND condi
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tion, i. e. the files searched for must match the conditions defined in all fil-
ter lines. Click the “-” button for a filter line to remove it.
• To reset all search fields to their default settings, click
the Reset Filter button in the top right corner of the Filters
section.
Option Description
contains The search result must contain the text or number specified in
the text field to the right.
omits The search result must not contain the text or number specified
in the text field to the right.
equals The search result must correspond exactly to the text or number
specified in the text field to the right, including any file extension.
Text searches are not case-sensitive.
>= The search result must be higher than or equal to the number
specified in the field to the right.
<= The search result must be lower than or equal to the number
specified in the field to the right.
is empty Use this option to find files for which certain attributes have not
been specified yet.
matches The search result must include the text or number entered in
the text field to the right. You can also use boolean operators.
This allows for a very advanced text search, see
“Performing a
text search” on page 317.
range When “range” is selected, you can specify a lower and an up-
per limit for the search result in the fields to the right.