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The MediaBay
Advanced text search
You can also perform very advanced text searches using
boolean operators. Proceed as follows:
1. Select the desired location.
2. Activate Logical filtering by clicking on the Logical but-
ton at the top of the Filters section.
A condition line appears.
3. Select the desired attribute on the Attributes pop-up
menu, or leave the setting on “Any Attribute”.
4. Make sure that the condition is set to “matches”.
5. Specify the desired text in the field to the right using
boolean operators.
The available options are described in the section “Performing a text
search” on page 317.
Performing a context menu search
If you have selected a file in the Results list or the Attribute
Inspector which contains an attribute you are interested,
there is a very fast way to look for other files with the same
attribute.
Right-click the selected file to open the context menu and
select the attribute value from the “Search for…” sub
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menu. This way you can easily find all the files that have
this value in common, for example if you want to view all
files that were created on the same day.
Ö This is the same as specifying a logical search string,
see above. When you select any of the “Search for…” op
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tions, the Filters section automatically switches to Logical
filtering and the corresponding filter condition line is dis
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played. To return to the previous settings, click the Go
Back button in the Filters section.
Applying an attribute filter
The MediaBay allows you not only to view and edit some
of the standard file attributes found in all computer files,
but it also provides preconfigured attributes, or “tags”,
that you can use to organize your media files, see
“The At-
tribute Inspector” on page 323.
If you click the Attribute button, the Filters section displays
all values found for a specific attribute. Selecting one of
these values will result in a list of files all showing this par
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ticular attribute value. For example, you could look for sam-
ple rates and pick 44.1 kHz to give you a list of all files with
that particular sample rate.
The advantages of the use of attributes become obvious
when having to find a specific file in a large database,
without knowing the name of that file.
When you activate Attribute filtering, the Filters section
shows attribute columns, each with its own list of attribute
values. If the columns are wide enough, the number of files
that match this criteria is displayed to the right of the filter
name.
You define an Attribute filter by clicking on the values in an
attribute column: only the files that match the selected at
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tribute values are then shown in the Results list. Select
more attribute values from other columns to further refine
your filter.
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In Cubase Artist, the Attribute search is the only
search mode available.
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Some attributes are directly linked to each other (e. g.
for each Category value, there are certain Sub Cate-
gory values available). Changing the value in one of
these attribute column will give you different values in
the other column!
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Each attribute column displays only the attribute val-
ues found in the currently selected location! This
means that selecting another location may lead to
the display of different attributes.