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I was attempting to search for songs with the word "blue" in the title. I can't find any way to search for a specific word. All I get whenever I search in Audacious is massive lists, usually of genres. Useless. One of the things I really miss from Win is MusicBee. That program is the absolute best player I have used for people with a large library, and no Linux audio players seem to have the same type of search and categorizing functions.

I was attempting to search for songs with the word "blue" in the title. I can't find any way to search for a specific word. All I get whenever I search in Audacious is massive lists, usually of genres. Useless. One of the things I really miss from Win is MusicBee. That program is the absolute best player I have used for people with a large library, and no Linux audio players seem to have the same type of search and categorizing functions.

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I know that you're absolutely not trying to be an asshole, but I've got that fucking Eiffel 65 song playing on repeat in my brain now.

Also had 4000 hits on "blue" in my library. I'm kinda a blues fan.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Eiffel 65 song

Had to look it up. Was worse than I thought possible, didn't make it past about 15 seconds. That could be a lethal Earworm, buddy. Better blow it out of your head with some death metal or something.

[–] • 1 pt

select one of the songs on the list and ctrl f, a small searchbar will appear bottom right corner.

another trick, if you select another song and want the currently playing one to be selected, (to copy it or something) press Esc.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Thanks for the reply, but this isn't doing anything useful. When I do this, the box appears, and when I enter a word it goes to the first song in the library with that word in it no matter what I have tried. I was looking for a way to make a song list of all the songs in the library with a certain word in it, in this case "blue".

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While the search bar is on, and the first result returns, you click the down arrow to go to the next result. Then you do it the old fashioned way, you drag and drop the result you want to a computer folder and it gets copied, then you import the folder into another tab, and that way you get unmutable folders with the songs you want (meaning you have your playlists in a folder instead of a playlist file usable only by a certain app), I do it that way and it is confortable, although you may want to do it the apple way, in that case use the hythbox app.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt (edited )

I see. Thank you for the explanation. This is way beyond what I am willing to do to play a few tunes, however. I did figure out how to make the search work on Clementine. I have been switching back and forth between Clementine and Audacious for my music player. All in all, Clementine has more features. For anyone who is interested, in Clementine you can type in a "Field name", e.g. Title, Genre, etc., followed by a colon (no space before or after the colon), and then the search word.

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Quotation marks and spaces? Like " Blue " instead of "Blue"

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

I tried every combination of quotation marks, colon, semi colon, etc. Nothing seems to work, although the Control+F suggestion does work, but it takes you through each instance one by one- you can't use it to make a list or group, etc.

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Maybe ?

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My work around ended up being using Clementine when I wish to make a select list. You can do word and Genre searches and such with it. Still not up to par with Windows music players like Musicbee, but it is functional.

FWIW: The "Blue" list was simply because Mrs. Sunshine was going to drive the car I had just repainted Blue.

https://poal.co/s/TellPoal/360463

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Google: "Crappy songs that have blue in the title". Yours will be in there.