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Topic: How to find songs with (not) the same name/title quickly? (Read 1128 times) previous topic - next topic
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How to find songs with (not) the same name/title quickly?

Hi all,

I'd like to ask a somewhat technical and philosophical question about tagging and finding songs with the same title as the current selected song.

I often listen to Medleys, which are Songs which contain a whole slew of other songs, or Variations of a song.
I.e. Various versions of Yesterday by The Beatles, sung from various artists.

That said, when I'm listening to a random song that I like, I'd like to listen to "same songs in my library".

For that, I have a Keyboard Shortcut created for "Quicksearch for same / Title", which opens a new playlist, containing all the files/songs in my library, which contain the exact same title of the current playing or selected song.

On the other hand, I have created several Autoplaylists with queries like "(TITLE HAS A Taste Of Honey) OR (COMMENT HAS A Taste Of Honey) OR (ALBUM HAS A Taste Of Honey Collection)". Those autoplaylists work well on my entire library, but I cannot creat a single Autoplaylist for each song I short like...

Also, I've got some components installed in foobar2000, which allow me to use Last.FM as a Playlistgeneraror for "Similar Artists", but that does not suit finding similar interpretations of a song.


So, while most of the Songs I've got in my library, are tagged well for finding "same songs", some are not: Medleys.
Medleys often named/tagged like "Song 1 / Song 2 / Song 3 / etc", or "Song1,Song2,Song3,etc", or "Medley: Song1 - Song 2 - Song 3 - etc", or whatever ppl can think of.

I never found a good working tagging-method for tagging medleys or songs which contain more that one single song, to find them ever again when looking for a special song.


I'm aware of using the character ; as a separator for multiple values, but I'm not sure if there is a hidden power, I did'nt realize till now, because they don't work all the time (as I'm expecting, maybe they work like intended...)

When I tag a songname with "Track Title : Yesterday;Hey Jude" the Quicksearch for same / Title does not find that song.
(Actually, technically I did'nt expect it to work, but from the point of a musiclover, I reallyreally like to have it work!)


So there is not a concrete question here, but maybe:

How can I set my foobar2000 enviroment up to find "same songs" in my library while not having a dramatical change in my behaviour, like just pressing a shortcut or clicking some buttons to listening to "same songs" ?

I'm happy to read some new ideas.

How to find songs with (not) the same name/title quickly?

Reply #1 –
Create a new search in Quicksearch with this:

Code: [Select]
$strstr($lower(%title%),$lower(%title%))

I know it looks odd, but it should find matching songs and matching songs within medleys. I cannot test it so I don't know how well it will work.