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Search for bands and albums in iTunes Apps
When I hear music out of my iTunes Library that I want to hear more of, I go to the search box and enter my preferred band. If the band has more than one album, I used to make a playlist just for the moment and then deleted it sometime later.

Now I found out there is a very unusual and easy way to handle this: Enter the name of the band, a space, and the name of the album too. This will clear the rest of the records and will just bring up what you are looking for - the band and album...
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uh, yeah, no kidding
Authored by: taikahn on Oct 02, '02 10:28:28AM

Thats pretty much the way any search field works --- I mean at google or yahoo to get a bunch of pages about NOFX you search for "NOFX" if you want a page that has NOFX songs from the album named ribbed, you search for "NOFX Ribbed" ---- sorry for the sarcastic tone, but whats the hint in that? IF you want lyrics from that record, you search for "NOFX Ribbed lyrics" --- right?



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uh, yeah, no kidding
Authored by: rossvegas on Oct 02, '02 12:24:04PM

aspen grove misses tai kahn.



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uh, yeah, no kidding
Authored by: taikahn on Oct 02, '02 01:48:02PM

Tai Kahn misses Ross Vegas 000x00x0x0x0x0 :-)



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DUH
Authored by: iacas on Oct 02, '02 05:04:56PM

Yeah, uh, duh... c'mon, how is this a freaking hint? STUPID. :P DUH.



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DUH
Authored by: Accura on Oct 03, '02 12:03:32AM

Man, look, if you start bagging out people about the hints that they post it will stuff up this site. you know all that crap about love not war, well its not really that bad an idea.

don't be a toss

accura



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finish and stop
Authored by: koelling on Oct 02, '02 06:53:04PM

Don\'t tear me apart if this is a similarly trivial hint. I\'ve always wanted to be able to finish the song and stop the music. I\'ve never found an mp3 player that does this officially but in programs like iTunes with a search field, enter ~ or some other string that you know isn\'t in any of your songs and it will finish the current song and stop. Useful if you want to be lulled to sleep by NightWish or Man\'oWar.



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finish and stop
Authored by: Anonymous on Oct 02, '02 08:12:16PM

I don't think it's a stupid hint at all. i would have never thought of what you suggested. what might be simple and self evident to some people arn't to others.



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finish and stop
Authored by: taikahn on Oct 03, '02 09:25:03AM

you never thought to put two words in a search field?

May god help you....



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Why not Browse?
Authored by: mumkin on Oct 02, '02 09:11:03PM

I'm afraid I don't quite get it... the browse option would seem to provide this functionality quite handily, allowing you to select an artist and then choose an album of theirs to listen to. No need to make a playlist for later disposal, unless you're keen to order the tracks in a particular fashion.

I must admit that I came rather late to the browse function, however... its placement, right by the search field, had long led me to interpret it as being a SUBMIT button for the search string and not a separate feature in and of itself. Maybe you are unfamiliar with it, as I was. If so, check it out.



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Why not Browse?
Authored by: toddsnc on Oct 03, '02 07:33:05AM

Using the search box has the advantage of being usually faster than browse, because it's all keyboarding. It should be mentioned however, that Search happens only on columns displayed, typically Song name, Artist and Album. Add Genre to the mix and you can search (for instance) "jazz davis" to find all the Miles Davis jazz in your collection. Other interesting permutations are possible; however, Search only searches text fields - Song name, Alblum, Artist, Genre, Comment, Composer, Equalizer (yes) and Kind. Playlists based in part on numeric fields (like year) require a Smart Playlist.



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just search for album name
Authored by: Anonymous on Oct 03, '02 09:15:02AM

If you want to just display one albums worth.. just type in the name of the album in the search field ?

I guess it would be hepful if you had something like a one word album name that also showed up in other album or band names etc....



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Old as itunes
Authored by: davidjschloss on Oct 04, '02 12:00:37AM

This feature has been present in itunes since the very beginning, in fact Jobs demo'd it in the keynote where itunes was announced.

You can also enter partial things in the search box, and multiple thigns.

Like for example if you were looking for Ani Difranco and a song from Living In Clip called Both Hands you could type

ani clip both or difranco living hands.

This is good for finding a song you might have, but can't quite remember the name.

But it's really not a hint, and it's not even an osx item, as itunes for 9 does it too.



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