Multiple field search, OR is AND (Newbie quation)
 

In the archives I read that to get full albums, I need to put the words "album albw complete entire cd" in the search field for the title.

However, it seems that when I search on multiple fields LW treats this as an OR iso an AND search. Is that correct? and if so is there any way to change this?

Example:
I searched for Title: album and Artist: Jimi Hendrix

The result was a lot of Jimi Hendix singles and one album, by The Police :(

All I want is a list of albums by Jimi Hendrix. Am I asking to much?

Sorry, "OR is AND" shuld read "OR iso AND"

album vs singles
 

i think you'll find that a lot of people share only singles.
if i want an album i research the album first to find all the songs on it. then i search the artist, album, songs to get what i want. i don't really want a program to un-wrap the albumwrap so i DL the singles.
i have mainly albums, but still you have to get them one song at a time.
if you find one song, browse the host they may have the rest. you may not find the album today or tommorrow. check for your album at different times in the day. :)

I have found many albums that were only avaiable as albumwraps.afaik.. until I unwrapped them and put up both the wrap and the single tracks... Certainly it's easier to d'l a wrapped album and unwrap it PROVIDED that the wrapping has been done correctly. The unwrapping progs are small and simple.

too laaaazzzy!
 

i guess i'm too old & too lazy to bother with another program to do something else just to listen to music on this computer.lol :D

I always think it's damn lazy to just click once and get a complete album :):) besides I like playing with all the little extractor progs... I guess I'm funny that way:)

But .. it's true to say that it can take a good hour to unwrap it and relabel it and identify the tracks if it has not been correctly wrapped

too much like work!
 

if LW runs out of (singles) on an album, or if i somehow find the time to learn a new trick, i'll get the un-wrap program.

i DL an albumwrap once, if you want to listen to something someone else put together, those are fine. i like to compile my own selections. it's time-consuming enough to have to edit the songs i do.

i'm anal about enough stuff, like color coding all the new slim movie covers. green-action, yellow-comedy, red-horror, etc. (p.s. i can't read w/out glasses, so it's quicker to find the colors first.) large print on the new covers as well. i have a movie notebook color-coded with the same color tabs. sad, but true!! lol :D

me d ... does not colour coding your entire collection of everything not include just a teensy little bit of work.

I need to ask you when you are arranging your collection , do you use the date method or the alphabetical first name or the ......................... ?:D:D ;) LOL

Thanks Only a Hobo and me d for your responses

1 - The reason I don't like puting an album together by downloading its singles is that you never know which version of the single you get, it might be a different version than the one on the album

2 - Thanks to your advise and playing around a bit, I did find a way now to find albums with a reasonable hit rate. I now put the artist name in the Artist field and the full album title in the Title field. So far so good.

3 - However, extracting ALBW files is a diffrent matter. I downloaded the Album Wrap Extractor from infamus.com, but having tried literally dozens of ALBW I keep getting the msg that "this is not a proper Album wrap" file. Now I understand that not every ALBW is the real thing, but getting no results what so ever I find a bit suspicious.

Anyone know whether this thingy is for real?

TIA
Gert

I had exactly the same suspicions about albumwrap with an awful lot of them, until I hit a genuine one. I was over the moon to actually find one :)

For Mac there is an application called File juicer which extracts almost anything from a file and this includes files that albumwrap extractor will not. I am sure there must be a Windows equivalent of File Juicer, but I'm not sure what.

btw I am really OAH but the forums have been a bit strange recently:):)