Re: [help] filter questions

[Tony S. <y2...@gm...>]

thanx for the reply.  I did try it and no, it doesn't give any error.  it
simply does nothing haha
hmmm so i guess i might have to resume my search... i reallly liked cmus :(

On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Frank Terbeck <ft...@be...>
wrote:

> Tony Sim <y2...@gm...>:
> > I was hoping if cmus could somehow filter through the comment
> > portion of the tag, such that i could categorize each song not only
> > by the common categories of tags but a more customized categories,
> > such as the language or theme or 'rating'.
> >
> > so far, my searches only show that i can only differentiate whether
> > there is a tag or not in a boolean  fashion.  Is it possible for
> > cmus to search through the comments?  if so, how?
>
> I'm not an expert in the filters field because I don't use them
> myself. However, the manual does not list comment tags among the
> filterable tags. String comparisons are possible, though:
>
>    :fset ogg=filename="*.ogg"
>
> AFAIK (and the manual also suggests this), cmus does not even look at
> comment tags at all. Someone would have to add support for it first.
>
> Note, that doing things like this will not cause an error:
>
>    :fset foo=comment="bar baz"
>
> But enabling that filter would not have any effect (AFAIK, again.)
>
> Regards, Frank
>
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