Searching for an union of tags

[spinlud]

Is it possible to search in the browser for an union of tags, for example "#Ab #Eb" (all files tagged with #Ab or #Eb or both).

As it is now the search seems to work only as an intersection, in the example find all files tagged with #Ab AND #Eb.

[pottering]

It doesn't work with tags, but if you have the info such as Ab and Eb in the actual filenames, then you can simply search for Ab and Eb using special characters like . or " or ; right after the word, to constrain the search.

For example, typing only "ab" in the search will return any file that has words that start with "ab" ("absolute", "abomination", "abs", etc.), but if you type "ab." (or "ab_" or "ab;") then only files with exactly "ab" with show up.

If you type "vs" all kinds of VST-related files will appear, but if you type "vs." then only files with the exact "vs" word (likely meaning "versus") will appear.

(Though note that Live's Browser considers capitalized "glued" words, like camelCase or PascalCase, as the same having an space between the capitalized words.)

Another example, typing "ab. maj." will return an "Ab Maj 132BPM.wav" file or "AbMaj 132BPM.wav" file, but not "Absolutely Majestic Loop.wav".

[spinlud]

It doesn't work with tags, but if you have the info such as Ab and Eb in the actual filenames, then you can simply search for Ab and Eb using special characters like . or " or ; right after the word, to constrain the search.

For example, typing only "ab" in the search will return any file that has words that start with "ab" ("absolute", "abomination", "abs", etc.), but if you type "ab." (or "ab_" or "ab;") then only files with exactly "ab" with show up.

If you type "vs" all kinds of VST-related files will appear, but if you type "vs." then only files with the exact "vs" word (likely meaning "versus") will appear.

(Though note that Live's Browser considers capitalized "glued" words, like camelCase or PascalCase, as the same having an space between the capitalized words.)

Another example, typing "ab. maj." will return an "Ab Maj 132BPM.wav" file or "AbMaj 132BPM.wav" file, but not "Absolutely Majestic Loop.wav".

Hi, thanks for the useful tips but this still does not answer how to do an UNION search (files that match any of the keywords provided)

[Hokuspokus]

Support of the 4 Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT, XOR) really would be a great addition to the searching and tagging function! Proverbial, it would be a logical step to add those..
Users really could benefit from it as it can simplify searches and add more usability and hence improve workflow (what many users here and on centercode often beg for). And, it's not complex/difficult to understand/does not need really (much) more GUI stuff.

And the coolest - please correct me if I'm wrong - it should be fairly easy and fast to implement as that are common operations in a all big programming languages.. The functionality basically already is there. Just extend the existing functions (if self written) or their usage (Qt) or, more or less, copy & paste the functions and replace the AND (&) operator (which we already have) by the others (|, !, ^). I know, probably thinking to simple here (neglecting e.g. the parsing and string interpretation here) but yeah, it really should not be a thing which binds a lot of man power and time (implementation, validatioin etc.).

So, that implementation would be a win - win Nice workflow improvement for the users, low effort for Ableton
But maybe I'm also wrong

[keeko]

I couldn't agree more.

I submitted this on Centercode some time ago - L12-SUG-2786

Only 8 upvotes so far.

https://ableton.centercode.com/project/ ... 7b13c8d3a4