How can i search/bulk edit "Start Time" [#21898]

[TheBestPessimist]

Either i have a moment of stupidity or this feature doesn't exist, but i can't figure out how to search for all my music which has a "Start Time" > 0:00.

I have found that some of my songs (which i was about to delete then re-download) have a Start Time = Stop Time - 2 sec.

Now i would like to fix that
1. find all songs which aren't ok
2. bulk edit them and set Start Time to 0

But I'm stuck at step 1.

Could anyone help, please?
Thank you in advance,
TheBestPessimist

[Lowlander]

There is no method to find them, but you can edit all files and set it to 0:00

[TheBestPessimist]

Thank you for the advice.
I missed the obvious (in retrospect) fact that in MM i can simply edit in bulk.

I edited all file's start to 0 and end to 999999999999999999999, and i will hope for the best.

[Lowlander]

I've added to following for review to maybe add new features in a future release: https://www.ventismedia.com/mantis/view.php?id=21898

[TheBestPessimist]

Thank you again.

> 3. Add a way to identify files with user set Start or Stop Time, either in a Files to Edit node with changed Start/Stop Time or a method to create an AutoPlaylist where Start or Stop Time are user set.

I would word this differently, and expand the scope: Allow searching for ANY field, whether it can be edited or it is read-only. As long as the field can be viewed in UI, i should be able to search for it. Yes, some searches do not have indexes so they could be slower. Name the 'search column' with a suffix "(slow search)" and that's it. (SQLite is freaking fast for local use. I'm a dev, i know)
In this way, anyone could search for anything they could ever desire.

Not sure how other people use MM, but i use it exclusively for maintaining and playing my music collection. Ever since i started using MM, i have never used anything else.

So at times, i wanted to search for various weird fields or weird metadata.

[TheBestPessimist]

BTW, the issue has Priority high and I think it probably shouldn't. At best i think that's 2/5, but more like 1/5 prio.