The search is supposed to mirror Spotlight (http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/spotlight/) for Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger", which indexes and searches your entire hard drive (so, for example, if I pull down the spotlight and search for "death" it takes me...8 seconds to get the 70 occurances of files that have "death" in their title, including a Halo map entitled "Death Island", a savegame from Wesnoth called "The Valley of Death", message logs from a friend whose msn address includes "death", several folders entitled "deathmatch", emails to indicate comments from an lj user with "death" in their name, one contact (aforesaid person whose msn address includes "death"), one image (the Homeworld 2 map "Death or Glory") and the song "Death of the Prodigy dancers").
I'm not trying to pimp Apple here, but it's pretty good. Although Quicksilver (http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/) did, and still does, it better, for iTunes and the OS in general. Because as good as spotlight is, I still can't select (say) the song Only this Moment and have it play next in party shuffle simply by typing <Alt+Space>, Only th<down><down><enter>.
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on 2006-02-07 03:27 am (UTC)The search is supposed to mirror Spotlight (http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/spotlight/) for Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger", which indexes and searches your entire hard drive (so, for example, if I pull down the spotlight and search for "death" it takes me...8 seconds to get the 70 occurances of files that have "death" in their title, including a Halo map entitled "Death Island", a savegame from Wesnoth called "The Valley of Death", message logs from a friend whose msn address includes "death", several folders entitled "deathmatch", emails to indicate comments from an lj user with "death" in their name, one contact (aforesaid person whose msn address includes "death"), one image (the Homeworld 2 map "Death or Glory") and the song "Death of the Prodigy dancers").
I'm not trying to pimp Apple here, but it's pretty good. Although Quicksilver (http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/) did, and still does, it better, for iTunes and the OS in general. Because as good as spotlight is, I still can't select (say) the song Only this Moment and have it play next in party shuffle simply by typing
<Alt+Space>, Only th<down><down><enter>.