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Old March 11th, 2004
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Just to clarify -- I didn't mean clicking on the bitrate column in the search results. I meant double-clicking or right-clicking on the title of the new filters on the left hand side (the titles of one of the three boxes, which for Audio searches default to Genre, Artist, and Album). You can change those filters -- for example, I routinely set them to Vendor, Speed and Type while debugging.

However, those filters are limited to only a single choice -- so you could limit your search results to displaying only bitrate 192 files (but it wouldn't include anything above 192). There are definite benefits to allowing a "greater than / less than" kind of filter. Unfortunately, the interface for such a feature is less than clear. Would the box that currently lists the possible choices instead be a panel that lets the user choose "equal to, greater than or less than" and then a specific number? If we can pin something down, this would be useful for file sizes as well...

Depending on how long it takes to work on some other features and how hard this is to conceptualize and code, it may or may not make it into the final release. We'll keep it in mind for future additions to the filtering system, though, if it isn't immediately included.

Last edited by sberlin; March 11th, 2004 at 09:13 PM.