Filter on bitrate ?
 

Hi all,

First post, so go easy on me ;)

Ok, if you only wanted search results for certain bitrates, for example, only 224 and 256, how would you do it please ?

LW Pro, 4.12.3

Any help much appreciated.

Chris.

(a) Choose Audio type search. (b) click on More Search Options. (c) scroll down to Bitrate & type in one of those bitrates, eg: 256.

Searching using multiple search criteria does tend to invite spam however. So just be careful about that. :)

Also see http://www.gnutellaforums.com/limewi...tml#post240030 about filtering search results via bitrate. ;)

The sample image was taken from Mac OSX LW so may look slightly different to your Windows version LW.:)

http://www.gnutellaforums.com/attach...nly-search.gif

I organise my search results in different ways. Such as double-clicking either size column to show largest at top, or bitrate column heading to show highest bitrates at top, etc.

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Many thanks for that - I'm learning all the time :)

From your link, I found out how to filter the search on bitrates after the search results come in, but I couldn't get your tip above to work for filtering the results before they arrive on the pc ? ? When I tried what you suggested above, I keyed in 256 in the bitrate section, then about 25 tracks were in the results, but no track lengths ! !

Also, and on the assumption that I can get eventually get it to work and you only wanted to view the results based only on br's of 256 and 320, how would you input that into the box please ?

Chris

Depends on who you are connected to since LW cannot search the entire gnutella network, otherwise each search would take hours to complete. Thus LW has a search horizon limit. There might be spammers within this limit.

I just did a 256 bitrate search using LW 4.16: 166 results. 13 didn't show bitrate or length. Of the others, altogether 19 were true spam after analizing the file sizes or lack of bitrate. Many files showed as spam with the trash icon but were not spam.

You might get different results on different days, again, depending on ultrapeers you are connected to & who is online, & how many spammers happen to be within your search horizon.

Thanks - I'll bear that in mind.

Also, and on the assumption that I can get eventually get it to work and you only wanted to view the results based only on br's of 256 and 320, how would you input that into the box please ?

Can only do one bitrate at a time from what I can see. Unfortunately LW does not have an option for range of bitrate between two figures or choosing one & showing all above it, etc. So you need to choose one specific bitrate. That does mean the bitrate search option is somewhat limited.

Many thanks for the help it's appreciated. Maybe that could be one for future versions :)