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<blockquote data-quote="buoyo" data-source="post: 1052317" data-attributes="member: 154993">hi, thanks for the reply! I have been searching in finder i'm not quite that useless but its results seem to be really unsatisfactory. Since I havn't heard it talked about it much I presume its either because alot of mac users have only used mac, they have no need because they are very organized, they let itunes control their music collection or I'm missing something completely. I could give plenty of examples but say I search &quot;temple&quot; I can see the mp3 track name &quot;dvs - temple.mp3&quot; in front of me but the search doesn't pick it up. In fact it seems totally random, sometimes corresponding mp3's will turn up in the search and sometimes they wont when I know they are there. If I were to search &quot;joya&quot; a album by &quot;joya landis&quot; might come up but not any of the other individual mp3's (which have joya in the name). I also get completely random results like say I type in &quot;two&quot; looking for a mp3 file with &quot;two fingers&quot; in the title it would return (among many other files) &quot;09 All Them.mp3&quot;. This is all with the &quot;File name&quot; option selected in the search. The majority of these files being searched for are on an external hard drive if that makes any difference? Would indexing help at all?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="buoyo, post: 1052317, member: 154993"] hi, thanks for the reply! I have been searching in finder i'm not quite that useless but its results seem to be really unsatisfactory. Since I havn't heard it talked about it much I presume its either because alot of mac users have only used mac, they have no need because they are very organized, they let itunes control their music collection or I'm missing something completely. I could give plenty of examples but say I search "temple" I can see the mp3 track name "dvs - temple.mp3" in front of me but the search doesn't pick it up. In fact it seems totally random, sometimes corresponding mp3's will turn up in the search and sometimes they wont when I know they are there. If I were to search "joya" a album by "joya landis" might come up but not any of the other individual mp3's (which have joya in the name). I also get completely random results like say I type in "two" looking for a mp3 file with "two fingers" in the title it would return (among many other files) "09 All Them.mp3". This is all with the "File name" option selected in the search. The majority of these files being searched for are on an external hard drive if that makes any difference? Would indexing help at all? [/QUOTE]

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