Search (find) playlists for song title/artist/album
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I have a lot of playlists. Part of the reason is that I create new ones when I cannot seem to find one that I thought I had already created. As a result the list tends to grow.
It would be nice if I could search for a song (any part of the song title, artist, album, etc.) and get some listing or indication (popup, separate window, playlists highlighted, or whatever) that identifies playlists where I might find a match.
Being able to use a regular expression would be a bonus, but a simple substring would be a huge gain already.
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non-strawberry solution: if your playlists are in a central location (e.g. /Music/playlists/) then you could 'search within files / search file contents' using whatever OS-default search tool you have handy?
Now if you were feeling INCREDIBLY saucy, you could setup a cron job to
- scan all your playlists
- create a database of songs [track URL] (rows) & playlists (columns), with cells filled by the playlist name; have a final column which concatenates all nonblank playlist columns, separated by semicolon
- Write that final column to the Performer tag of those files
- [manually/auto rescan collection in Strawberry then) search "performer:MyPlaylist" if you want the contents of the playlist in whichever Collection grouping scheme you've chosen (potentially useful/interesting), or (your main objective)
- search for the song and look in the tags for the performer, or display the performer tag as a column.
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