thefaceman wrote:1. A few of the presets I would not use, but when I click on them to 'delete' them, it still seems to 'perform' the search. And some of them take a LONG time on 70000 files. Is there any way I can delete a preset without it 'loading'?
a) open Edit / Magic Nodes Settings dialog box, select mask from the Caption combo box and click on the Delete button, or
b) open Edit / Magic Nodes Export/Import dialog box, select mask(s) that you want to remove and click on the Del button.
2. What is 'albums - artists with mixed first and last name order (by aff)?
Honestly, I cannot remember. Why don't you try it by yourself? Or you could Search this thread for Aff's posts, I have copied it from there. I suppose it displays albums where Artist has swapped fist and last names.
3. What is 'Albums with name different from last (rightmost)'?
The full name of that mask is "Albums with name different from last (rightmost)
Folder". If you have a folder hierarchy like Genre\Artist\Album then the last folder of the Path is (should be) equal to the Album name, otherwise it would be displayed with that mask.
How to search for
- Starts with A (space) or The (space)
You know that you should use the Magic Nodes Settings dialog box to create new masks, right?
- click on the New button;
- type name of the mask/node in the Caption combo box;
- choose wanted field from the second Filter combo box;
- choose
begins with from the third Filter combo box;
- type "A " (without quotes) in the forth Filter combo box;
- click on the Add button next to the forth combo box;
- click on the end of the Filter string in the text box next below;
- choose OR from the first Filter combo box;
- type "The " (without quotes) in the forth Filter combo box;
- click on the Add button next to the forth combo box (your Filter should be now e.g. <Artist> Like 'A %' OR <Artist> Like 'The %');
- click on the Add button at the bottom of the dialog box.
- Double Spaces
You know that you could enter a complete mask in the Mask text box of the Magic Nodes Settings dialog box, right? I already gave you a solution at
http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... 09#p317909 (e.g. Filter:<Artist> Like '% %')
- commas or dashes (Without spaces)
Similar as the previous suggestion, but you should choose
contains from the third Filter combo box and type wanted string in the forth combo box.
- title ends with a specific character (ie 2 or n' )
Similar as the previous suggestion, but you should choose
ends with from the third Filter combo box and type wanted string in the forth combo box. I already gave you a solution at
http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... 09#p317909 (e.g. <Title> Like '%' || 'enter_a_specific_character_here')
- commas within a # value (1,000,000)
The RegExp Find & Replace add-on is much better for such things:
Find what: \d+(?:(,)\d{3})+
Regular expression 1: checked
If you want to replace commas in numbers with points:
Replace with: Replace("$&", ",", ".")
VBScript expression: checked
- how to search a single value (ie V or II) not as 'part' of a value, either within or at the end of a title string
I don't understand that.
- Artists with multiple Ands in the Artist string
I already gave you a solution at
http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewto ... 09#p317909 (e.g. UpperW(<Artist>) GLOB '* AND * AND *')