XXHighEnd

I've a quite big music folder, both with SD and HD albums. Each one with its tags. I need to find a way in XXhighend to be able to only see HD albums if required. I thought about the possibility to create two different folders for SD and HD and then simply switching between them pointing to desired one in XXhighend Settings area.
BUT, I'm also wondering if there's TAGs search in this brilliant piece of software. I used "composer" field also to indicate sampling rate for HD music. So if I'd search for "192KHz" I'd be fine.

Thanks!

Hi there fralippo,

First straight answer : No, searching for tag data is not possible. I mean, not if you literally mean "tags" in the file.

But other possibilities exist. I will try to put forward a few of them after this post.

Btw welcome to the forum, although you are not exactly new. :)

Regards,
Peter

Next up :

Switch on the ToolTips (towards the bottom in Settings), go to the Library Area ( [ L ] button in the top), move the mouse to the one but last text field in the bottom (next to the [ R ] button), wait until the ToolTip shows, and start (more comfortably) reading under the [ H ] button the in the top.

More later.

What you have read in that ToolTip counts for the whole path.

Now you have to get aquainted with how to present your music folders in the Library Area.
Notice in advance : When you do not use Galleries your opportunities are less, but also it will be less visible / logical what all can be done. Anyway example :

You have a main Music Root with under that several folders. When this is about the "Original data" (hence not Galleries) this should be quite static and will not be (or should not be) much dependent on sorting mechanisms and such;

When you ask for the Music Root you will get all you have in the Library Area. Because it is all, the search text box near the bottom is subject to that all. This is how the search facilities work on the "whole path", but this is the path NOT contained in the root you're in. Example :

MyMusic\Jazz\Female\[album names]

If you ask for the MyMusic\ root then Jazz can be typed in the text box and all what's jazz will pop up.
If you ask for MyMusic\Jazz\ as the root, no Jazz in the text box will bring you anything, unless it is contained in the album names.
And so on.

This also means that if you have your SD in a special folder and it is named like that, you will be able to or select it explicitly (as root) or search for it by means of asking for the higher folder (\MyMusic\)  and search for it. But of course give the "SD" a clear name.

But is this wanted ? I mean, you would sort of have to know right after or during ripping because your folder names (which impliy structures) must be made at that point. This is how Galleries are better. So, your ripped files may not be in a \Jazz\Female\ folder right away but all in \Jazz\ while afterwards you select the "female's" and put them in a Female Gallery somewhere. This could be :

\MyMusicGallery\Jazz\Female
or
\MyMusicGallery\Female
or
\MyMusicGallery\Jazz\Female
AND
\MyMusicGallery\Female
etc. etc.

I don't think it is common to put SD vs Hres in specially named folders *because* it is more common to right away put that in the album name (don't ask me why  but I too feel this is more logic or something).
In the end anything can be in the album name but NOT the file type (this would be redundant because a. already in the file name (like .FLAC) and b. subject to change (convert the FLAC to WAV at some stage). But further ? the year like [1984] or the label by some [] means, whether it is a remaster, anything.

Do notice that making all unique at the album name level is good habit because two albums of the same name but other version will now always sort nicely under each other, the one showing e.g. "Remaster" in its name and the other not.

This is how internal tagging should not be used in the first place because you won't be able to use any normal folder structure ...
(so how to store them while the names need not to be unique like with "Remaster" and without).

If you have arranged for all this like (my) logic depcits, you can also always find all within one second. I can ...

I hope this is helpful but I'm not sure.
Regards,
Peter