Searching

To search for a song in the current playlist, press ⌘-F (command-F mac, or control-F windows). To search for a song in the Library, press ⌘⇧-F. Searching will search every visible column, so to make search go faster, hide the columns you don't care about. You can search for multiple terms, and commas and spaces are ignored. For example "beat, love, me" will find all beatles songs that have the words "love" and "me" (as well as any other song with those three terms).

If you just want to find all songs with a comma in the name somewhere, search for "," (no quotes), as that is a special case where the comma is NOT ignored.

Numeric Searches

To search for a number like "Song ID", just type the number. If you *only* type digits into the search field, it will be interpreted as a number and NOT as a string, and it will search numeric fields only, automatically. eg: typing "52" will find "Song ID" 52, but will NOT find "The B-52s". To search for NON-numeric numbers, add a space to the end, eg, typing "52 " (note the space?), this will NOT find "Song ID" 52, but it WILL find "The B-52s". Note the Date column is NOT numeric.

Targeted Searches

You can search only on a specific column by putting the name of the column first, followed by a colon, followed by your search term. EG: if you search for "bb", you'll get all the songs that you marked as in the key of B flat, but you'll also get all "Abba" songs right? but if you type "key:bb", then you will ONLY search the "Key" column, and only get results in the key of B flat. Note this does not combine with numeric searching, since it is already rather targeted to search only on numeric fields. To search for something that actually has a colon in it, just put in two colons in a row. To search "checkbox" columns (like "No Lyrics", "Purchased" etc), use a "1" to mean "checked" and a "0" to mean "un-checked". eg: to search for all purchased songs, type "purchased:1" in the search box!

Why is it slow?

See Slow Searching.