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I'm looking for a way to search my db (especially the artists' names) case sensitive to unify entries.

e.g.
I have most tracks credited to
Chris de Burgh (about 513 tracks)
a few to
Chris De Burgh (exactly 10 tracks).
If I search for Chris de Burgh it's case INsenstive and I have to look through all the 523 entries to find the 10 "wrong" spelled ones, it's a hard one and You most propably overlook 2 or 3 and have to start again.

So it would be great to tell MM to search vor "Chris De Burgh" (case senstive) and show only those ones with capital initials...

Is there any way to do so?

(I Know, I could to it with "replace strings" but as far as I see, MM writes a new timestamp to ALL 523 items not only the 10 changed ones - this I try to avoid e.g. for backup performance reasons).

Thanks for Your help!

No, search isn't case sensitive.

Lowlander wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 2:06 pm No, search isn't case sensitive.

Yes, I know - that's why I'm asking HOW I could do a case sensitive search within MM2024

You can't, because search isn't case sensitive.

Lowlander wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 2:12 pm You can't, because search isn't case sensitive.

OK, then let me express it in another way:

1. Are there any addons that provide some case sensitive searches?

if not:
I'll put it on the feature request list

My problem is:
For most other mp3-software IS case sensitive, I always have to do this with some other tools like mp3tag...

... I described it in this post:

https://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewt ... p?t=105921

It would be very helpful to do a case sensitive search at least on Artist / Albumartist to avoid having

Chris de Burgh
&
Chris De Burgh

in db which most other software see as 2 different artists...

frank1969a wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 1:44 pm If I search for Chris de Burgh it's case INsenstive and I have to look through all the 523 entries to find the 10 "wrong" spelled ones, it's a hard one and You most propably overlook 2 or 3 and have to start again.

When I have this problem, I take the brutal way and select ALL (right an wrong) tracks and give them the right value. MM is fast enough to do that in an acceptable time.
The properies window IS case sensitive. Selecting all tracks with different cases, won't show ONE entry in the field.
This is the way, I achieve a consistent notation:
1. Extended search in Artist /Album Artist
2. Select all results
3. Properties: Check if there are entrys in those field, if not paste the right ones.
I'd started this procedure to recognize tracks with many different versions of the quotation marks as identical.
(can now be done with this addon)

Lowlander wrote: ↑Wed Mar 13, 2024 2:12 pm You can't, because search isn't case sensitive.

I don't think that this is correct.
I believe MM5 search has the option to be case sensitive.
Steps:

1. Tools>Options>Library>Search .. set Search Mode to "IgnoreDiacritics/matchBeginning"
2. Open Global Search (magnifying glass icon)
3. type the following
4. +"Chris de"
5. ==> the returned list will exclude tags containing "Chris De"

nb: make a note of the original search mode before step #1, so that you restore setting afterwards.