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A better file search tool
Is there a better file search tool than the one that comes with Win98?
I want one that will search by the file extension. For example, I want to find a file containing the word "beatles" and want only the .MP3 files. In the built in "finder", when I go to "Advanced", it wants me to specify what program is used for MP3 files. Which in my case, I have numerous programs that play music. There must be some add-on utility that allows for simply searching for a word and the added file extension. Thanks |
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On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 15:49:47 -0600, philo* wrote:
On 12/22/2012 03:20 PM, wrote: Is there a better file search tool than the one that comes with Win98? I want one that will search by the file extension. For example, I want to find a file containing the word "beatles" and want only the .MP3 files. In the built in "finder", when I go to "Advanced", it wants me to specify what program is used for MP3 files. Which in my case, I have numerous programs that play music. There must be some add-on utility that allows for simply searching for a word and the added file extension. Thanks the built in tool is just fine for search parameters just enter *.mp3 for example I have over 4000 MP3 files. And 99% of them are in one folder called "Music". All that is gonna do is show all of them. That's not much help. I may as well just go to that folder and start looking manually. |
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On 12/22/2012 04:25 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 15:49:47 -0600, philo wrote: On 12/22/2012 03:20 PM, wrote: Is there a better file search tool than the one that comes with Win98? I want one that will search by the file extension. For example, I want to find a file containing the word "beatles" and want only the .MP3 files. In the built in "finder", when I go to "Advanced", it wants me to specify what program is used for MP3 files. Which in my case, I have numerous programs that play music. There must be some add-on utility that allows for simply searching for a word and the added file extension. Thanks the built in tool is just fine for search parameters just enter *.mp3 for example I have over 4000 MP3 files. And 99% of them are in one folder called "Music". All that is gonna do is show all of them. That's not much help. I may as well just go to that folder and start looking manually. To get a more exact search you can use quotes "beatles".mp3 -- https://www.createspace.com/3707686 |
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On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:55:58 -0500, 98 Guy wrote:
wrote: Is there a better file search tool than the one that comes with Win98? The file-find ability that Windows 9x/ME has is far superior to any that came with any windows-NT based version (2k, XP, Vista, 7, etc). I want one that will search by the file extension. For example, I want to find a file containing the word "beatles" and want only the .MP3 files. In the built in "finder", when I go to "Advanced", You will not accomplish what you want by going to the Advanced tab. 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. 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. Ok, now we're getting somewhere. That works great. I was not aware of putting the file-prefix in stars. I only knew to use the old dos *.mp3 command. And if I search for ALL EXTENSIONS with a certain filename I might get thousands of unrelated file types. For example, I was looking for REM (the band REM). I got words that contained REM such as REMind, REMington, REMember, and so on.... Thanks |
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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. |
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On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 07:25:03 +1100, Franc Zabkar
put finger to keyboard and composed: On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:30:54 -0600, put finger to keyboard and composed: I was not aware of putting the file-prefix in stars. I only knew to use the old dos *.mp3 command. dir *.mp3 /s /b | find /i "beatles" beatles.txt .... or ... dir "*beatles*".mp3 /s /b beatles.txt - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email. |
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