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# Tracks
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This page of the LibreTime interface enables you to search the media library,
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sort and display the search results by the criteria that you choose, audition
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library items, and drag and drop those items into a playlist. You can also
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adjust fade and cue points, create smart blocks (automatically generated
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playlists), or add incoming web streams to the library. The **Library** page
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is not visible to *Guest* users.
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Searching the library
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In the library table which opens, the upper section is for the **Advanced
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Search Options**, which enable you to search within individual fields of the
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database such as **Title** or **Creator**. Like an Internet search engine, you
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do not have to type in the correct upper or lower case, press the **Enter** key,
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or even type the whole of the search term before matches from the LibreTime
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library are displayed.
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At the bottom of the library table, click the **First**, **Previous**, **Next**,
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**Last** or individual page number buttons to browse the search results.
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Right-clicking an item in the search results will display the available options
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for that item in a pop-up window.
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The columns displayed in the search results correspond to the fields available
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for advanced searches (except for **Scheduled** and **Playlist / Block**, which
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indicate if a particular item is in use). To change the fields which can be
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searched, click the **Show / hide columns** button on the right side of the
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table, just above the search results.
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Click the metadata column headings such as **Title**, **Creator**, **Album**, or
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**Genre** to sort the entries in ascending or descending order. In the second
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column, audio files are represented by a loudspeaker icon, while playlists ares
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represented by a document icon. Smart blocks have a think bubble icon, and web
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streams have an arrow icon.
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To find all files uploaded by yourself, or another specific member of the
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station staff, click the **Show / hide columns** checkbox which enables the
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**Owner** column. After you have made your search, you can click the header of
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the **Uploaded** column to find the items that person added to the server most
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recently.
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Advanced search terms are matched using 'and' rather than 'or' logic, to narrow
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your search. Perhaps you have tagged some jazz-flavoured station idents intended
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for use in a particular show called 'Jazz Maverick' with the **Album** tag of
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*Jazz Maverick* and a **Genre** of *Ident*. You could then find exactly the
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idents you are searching for by typing *maverick* and *ident* into the
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respective advanced search fields.
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If your jingles are tagged with *Jingle* in the **Genre** or other fields, you
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can very easily find them by entering *jingle* into the search field. The same
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technique can be used to find advertising and promotional files. (See the
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chapter *Preparing media for ingest* for tips on batch tagging files with
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metadata). Unlike advanced searches, simple searches use 'or' logic for
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multiple search terms, so a simple search for *jingle ident* will return items
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matching either keyword.
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Clicking on an item in the library table opens a pop-up menu which enables you
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to audition the item, or remove it from the LibreTime library. Media types which
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cannot be auditioned directly in a web browser, such as FLAC, have a lock icon
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instead of a loudspeaker icon, but these files can be downloaded to your local
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computer for audition instead. The **Delete** option should be used with
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caution, because this action cannot be undone. For media files, you can also
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**Edit Metadata** stored for the file using this menu.
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