On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 11:38:50 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote:

Now for that, assuming all those other words are included in song
titles, etc., I think the only solution is going to be a search utility
designed for mp3 files. I have looked at an mp3 with a hex viewer to see
if the artist tag has something before it that you could include, so you
could search for something like AR1:REM, but unfortunately the artist
tag (both types) has nulls before the name, which I don't think you
could put into the ordinary search tool.

Although this method of using the stars in Windows98 search, works well,
I fid a free MP3 search utility, and it works well.

You did say you had 4000 mp3 files; although I only have about 1656
sound files, I would recommend sorting them into folders and subfolders.
(I have classical, comedy, females, males, film, groups, Germanic,
novelty, No1so60s, organ, Moore, radio, and TV, and some others, all
with subfolders; everyone's sound collection varies and different ones
will suit.) I say this hesitantly, since (a) it'd be a lot of work, (b)

I actually have been sorting and creating sub folders. About 60% is
sorted. I actually had almost all of it sorted when I had around 2000
songs, but I gave all my songs to someone else in trade for all of his,
and so on..... There are a few duplicates, but it's getting sorted.
I have it first by type of music, ex, Rock - Country - Bluegrass/Folk -
Classical - Modern. Within those groups, I have it sorted by decade 50s
- 60s - 70s etc. (just the rock and country is broken down that way,
because it's the majority of my stuff). Then each band of which I have
more than one song, has it's ownm such as ACDC - Beatles - Rolling
Stones - REM - etc.

It is a lot of work, but it's getting there. But that still leaves well
over 1000 songs that are unsorted, which is why I needed a serach tool.

This also does not include the MP4 videos of music groups, which are
separate from the music and on another harddrive, because I ran out of
space. I have to search those separately.