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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
xmlns:e="http://projectmallard.org/experimental/"
type="topic" style="task"
id="search">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="index#manage"/>
<link type="seealso" xref="sort"/>
<desc>Search your media and perfom basic queries.</desc>
<revision pkgversion="1.6" version="0.1" date="2009-01-22" status="draft"/>
<credit type="author">
<name>Paul Cutler</name>
<email>pcutler@gnome.org</email>
</credit>
<credit type="editor">
<name>Aruna sankaranarayanan</name>
<email>aruna.evam@gmail.com</email>
</credit>
<!--
<copyright>
<year>2010</year>
<name>GNOME Documentation Project</name>
</copyright>
-->
<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
</info>
<title>Searching your <app>Banshee</app> Library</title>
<p><app>Banshee</app> features a powerful search language. You can search
your library quickly and easily with basic search terms or perform detailed
searches with the <app>Banshee</app> advanced search terminology.</p>
<p>To perform a search of your media in <app>Banshee</app>, press the
<key>S</key> or click the <gui>Search</gui> box in the upper right hand
corner of the Library view in <app>Banshee</app>.</p>
<p>A search query consists of some basic terms, for example,
<em>dave matthews</em>. By entering <em>dave matthews</em> in the search
box, <app>Banshee</app> will search all metadata fields including
Track Title, Album Title, Album Artist, Year, etc. Any track whose metadata
includes <em>dave</em> and <em>matthews</em> will be returned. Search terms
are case insensitive, meaning you do not have to capitalize. <em>dave</em>,
<em>Dave</em>, and <em>DAVE</em> all mean the same thing when searching.</p>
<section id="operators">
<title>Basic Operators</title>
<p>Operators can be placed between any two search words or placed before a
search word. The default operation is <gui>AND</gui> and is used when
no other operators are used between two search terms. Since it is the
default, there is no explicit AND operator.</p>
<p>Other basic operators include <gui>OR</gui> and <gui>NOT</gui>. Together,
these three operations can yield very powerful queries to help you search
your media.</p>
</section>
<section id="logical">
<title>Logical Operators and Examples</title>
<p>The following is a list of logical operators and examples of the search
results when searching using them.</p>
<table frame="all" rules="rows" shade="rows">
<tr>
<td><p><gui>Operator</gui></p></td>
<td><p><gui>Description</gui></p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p><em>default</em>, <em>white space</em></p></td>
<td><p>Search for two terms with a space between the two
words or terms.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p>OR, or, <key>|</key>, <key>,</key></p></td>
<td><p>Search results will be two songs with either result in any
field.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p>NOT, not,<key>-</key></p></td>
<td><p>Do not display search results with any search term that follows
the operator of NOT, not,<key>-</key></p></td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>Examples of logical operations include:</p>
<table frame="all" rules="rows" shade="rows">
<tr>
<td><p><gui>Query</gui></p></td>
<td><p><gui>Description</gui></p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p>dave matthews</p></td>
<td><p>Matches any fields in a track containing both <em>dave</em> and
<em>matthews</em>.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p>dave, matthews</p></td>
<td><p>Matches any fields in a track containing either <em>dave</em> or
<em>matthews</em>.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p>dave or matthews</p></td>
<td><p>Matches any fields in a track containing either <em>dave</em> or
<em>matthews</em>.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p>dave | matthews</p></td>
<td><p>Matches any fields in a track containing either <em>dave</em> or
<em>matthews</em>.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p>-"dave matthews"</p></td>
<td><p>Displays all tracks whose fields do not contain
<em>dave matthews</em>.</p></td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>For more information on performing more complex search queries, see the
<link xref="adv-search"/> page.</p>
</section>
</page>
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