@econnolly That helped. I was fighting with all the "!=" and the suggestions in the pop-up tip, but actually they don't always work. e.g. "year:!=2" didnt work to filter out year 2xxx where "year:-2" does. I hadn't even thought to use the "-" minus sign, but it turns out to be far superior. Also the $ does nothing as far as I can tell there are no wild cards.

"genre:rock -hard -indie -pop -art comment:-amazon year:-20"

basically gives me all the "rock" genre with any "hard rock", "indie rock", "pop rock", and "art rock" filtered out, while also filtering out anything with "amazon" in the comment and sticking to 19xx for the year.

@apistoletov I am not sure that is relevant. Here is why... the tag already exists. So all I care about is being able to right-click on Strawberry main window and show that particular ID tag in the Stawberry window ...but it isnt listed. Why? Its not a difficult thing to add in.

longer explanation...

Every EDM track I ever downloaded from Beatport or other EDM distribution labels used for DJing has BPM for that track set in the ID3 tag called "Beats-per-minute". This is already defined and existing in 100% of tracks in my EDM folder of music. Any EDM track changing BPM part way through is going to cause problems coz its dance music none of them change bpm part way through. For rock, maybe you have point but it isnt relevant in terms of showing the ID 3 tag - just showing it. Its there. Why not let us show it?

not sure if links to images are allowed but here is an example of it in action on windows. https://imgur.com/a/rJkmxSn BPM is a key thing in EDM, maybe folk rock never had this concern, but I do.

Re: BPM needed!

Given how important EDM is as a music genre, and how important BPM is to EDM as a music filter, how come we don't have the already existing "Beats-per-minute" ID3 tag available in the columns list of main window? Seems incredible this is not in there. I can even see it if I right click on windows explorer and choose it and it is provided in pretty much every download from any EDM outlet, but not available in Strawberry player window? I absolutely 100% love this software so far, but absolutely 100% need BPM on my music as a tag filter.