98 Guy wrote:
In the built in "finder", when I go to "Advanced",

You will not accomplish what you want by going to the Advanced tab.

Works for me...

1. beatles in the "Serach for files or folders" tab

2. select .mp3 in the "Type" drop down box in "Advanced"
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The way to perform your search is to enter this into the "Named" field
under the "Name & Location" tab:

*beatles*.mp3

That will find any file that ends in .mp3 that has "beatles" anywhere
in the file-prefix.

Doesn't for me.
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If you believe that the text-fragment "beatles" actually appears
somewhere in an mp3 file, then to search for any such file you put
this into the "Named" field:

*.mp3

And you put this into the "Containing text" field:

beatles

I'm not sure if mp3 files contain text (such as artist) in such a way
that it would be visible as plain text, but there's no harm in trying
to look and see if that search gives you what you want.

If they have tags - either ID3V1 or ID3v2 - and if the tag has "beatles" in
it, the file will be found but it will take a long time as the search has to
examine the entirety of each file.

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dadiOH
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