iTunes workflow to search comments field

[johnyull]

There's many great iTunes workflows but I've yet to find one that search comments field. 

 

Due to ever expanding music styles and sub-genres I've resorted to adding my own tags to the Comments field.  I usually add single words for moods or sub-genres and for the bigger/general descriptors I'll add an x to the end, like bluesx or dubx which gives me accurate search results with very few false positives.  How can I do this?

[deanishe]

Your best bet is probably to take one of those existing workflows and try to adjust it to your needs.

 

If a File Filter is sufficient for your needs, just add "kMDItemComment" under the Advanced tab to also search the comment field of music files.

[johnyull]

When I refer to "comments field", I mean the one in the iTunes interface, not the Finder comments associated with the file itself.

[johnyull]

Oh, I see "kMDItemComment".  Thanks!  It worked like a charm.  Anyway, I could do it to target iTunes "Grouping", "Show" and "Composer" fields?

[deanishe]

Dunno. Open Terminal and run mdls /your/song.mp3 (where "/your/song.mp3" is the path to your media file) to see the file metadata.
 
You'll see the field names and their values. Check if there's a field that corresponds to the iTunes data you're after and add that to your File Filter.