Searching your computer for music – Sony NWZ-S615FSLV User Manual

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Searching Your Computer for Music

If you have a large music collection, finding a specific song can be a challenge. You can easily find songs in
your music library using the

Search

box at the top of the Music Mode tab.

You can search using any text that appears in a song's metadata (title, album, artist, genre, etc).

1.

C lick the

Music Mode

button

at the top of the Media Manager for WALKMAN window.

2.

Type the text you want to find in the

Search

box.

Search Term

Example

Results

Single term

Brat

Finds all files that c ontain the word "Brat" in the file name or metadata.

P hras e

Big Brat

Finds all files that c ontain the words "Big" and "Brat" in the file name
or metadata.

E xac t P hras e "Big Brat"

Finds all files that c ontain the exac t phras e "Big Brat" in the file name
or metadata.

A N D

Big A N D Brat

Finds all files that c ontain both "Big" and "Brat" in the file name or
metadata.

O R

Big O R Brat

Finds all files that c ontain either "Big" or "Brat" in the file name or
metadata.

O R is the default operator: "Big Brat" and "Big O R Brat" would produc e
the s ame res ults .

N O T

Big N O T Brat

Finds all files that c ontain "Big" but not "Brat" in the file name or
metadata.

Field

title:Brat

Finds all s ongs that c ontain the word "Brat" in the title.

artis t:P hantom

Finds all s ongs that c ontain the word "P hantom" in the artis t name.

album:Gues t

Finds all s ongs that c ontain the word "Gues t" in the album title.

genre:A lternative

Finds all s ongs that have their genre s et to "A lternative."

Y ou c an als o us e A N D, O R, or N O T operators to s earc h multiple fields . For example,

s earc h "genre:alternative A N D title:landed" to find alternative mus ic that c ontains
"landed" in the s ong title.

Fuzzy s earc h Big~

Finds s imilarly s pelled words . "Big~" c ould find words that inc lude
"big" or "pig" in the file name or metadata.

Wildc ard

Brat*

M ultic harac ter wildc ard. Finds files that inc lude Brat, Bratty, or
Bratties t in the file name or metadata.

B?g

Single-c harac ter wildc ard. Finds files that inc lude Big, Bag, or Bog in
the file name or metadata.

3.

The song list in the Music pane displays the songs that match your search terms, and your search
results are saved in the Search Results playlist at the bottom of the folder list in the PC pane.

4.

C lick the

Preview

button or double-click the track to preview it in the lower half of the Media

Manager for WALKMAN window.

You can use the transport controls at the bottom of the window to pause/resume/stop playback, skip
to the previous/next track, and adjust the playback volume.

Hold C trl and double-click a song to preview it using the application associated with its file extension.

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