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Old December 23rd 12, 09:45 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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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

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Old December 24th 12, 08:16 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 10:52:44 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
put finger to keyboard and composed:

In message , Franc Zabkar
writes:
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


I think both of those are assuming beatles is in the filename rather
than the ID3 tags.


True, but isn't that what the OP really wants?

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Old January 1st 13, 10:00 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 11:38:50 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
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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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Old February 15th 13, 08:01 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 98 Guy
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).
Indeed it is!!!!

Win98/98se is amazing in EVERY WAY!
 




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