The Browse window is the first window you view upon opening GSelector. The filter pane at left is where you select or filter Songs. The results browse pane at right shows the Songs you've selected, displayed in a customizable browse format. In this window Songs can be hidden, or de-selected from display. In the filter pane at left, you can search by any Attribute, Artist, Participant, Media field, Album or Song title, or by any combination of these. The combination of elements you search, or filter by - your search criteria - can be saved off and recalled for later use. These are called Saved Filters, and you can use them in many areas of GSelector. You can also save browsed Songs as Browse Lists, which can be recalled or used later for a specific Clock position. The pane divider can be adjusted as needed for better visibility. Simply click and drag the divider to adjust the pane size. The position of the pane divider will be saved for the user.
see also the topics for the Library Song, Multi-Song Changer and Category Changer topics.
The window opens when launching a station. If you're already working in the station, click Library, then Browse.
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Saved Filter and Saved Song List selection box
Selecting and excluding in the Filter pane
Artists, Title and Albums tabs
'And' / 'Or' radio buttons (Artist, Album and Title searches)
'Any' / 'All' radio buttons (Participant searches)
More and All buttons ( used with Advanced search results only)
NexGen and Zetta synchronization buttons
Pressing the CTRL+F will open the Find option allowing the user to do a "Smart Filter" find. The Finder will search for results as they are typed. The Find option is available in both the Results pane and in the Filter Pane tabs for this window.
CTRL+F - Invokes the Find Panel.
ESC - Clears the search box. If the search box is empty, pressing ESC closes the Find Panel.
DOWN ARROW - Moves focus from the Find Panel to the grid's data area.
GSelector offers a range of search options in the Browse window. In addition to the regular search tools, you can also search using the Advanced Search pane, which replaces the default Filter Pane tabs and selection tools. For details see the Browse Window Advanced Search topic.
As with the Link Browse window, you can select and apply any previously saved Filter, or display any saved List of Songs. Click the selection arrow at right to see the list of saved Filters and Lists.
Select or scroll down to the desired Filter or List, and click or enter to display Filtered Songs or a Saved List of Songs in the Results pane. Song Filters are shown in Red and Song Lists are shown in Green. A Saved Song List is also available in the Browse List pane and can be used to schedule a Clock Position.
You can apply any previously saved Filter, or display any saved Song List, either to initiate a new search, or to filter an existing search.
For more information see the notes on working with Filters and Lists in the Filters and Lists Enter Name box topic.
TIP: The Saved Filters and Song Lists you define here can also be used in the Analysis window and the Category Changer.
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Artists, Title and Albums tabs
Click one of the tabs above the Filter selection pane to open either a list of Artist names, Song or Album Titles, an expandable Attribute or Participant list, or an expandable Media settings list in the Filter selection pane. Selecting one or more items in the Filter selection pane will open a list of Song matches in the browse pane.
In any filter tab, select from the list of Attributes, Artists, Participants, Albums, Titles or Media values by clicking the Neutral 
icon for the item in the list for that tab. All selected Songs with that Attribute, Artist, Participant, Album or Title will be displayed in the results pane. In the illustration here, showing a list of Category Group attributes, the category group Long Songs is selected. When any item is selected, not selected items are excluded from the browse display.
The rest of the category groups are not selected. When items are selected, non-selected items are excluded. When items are excluded, not-selected items will be displayed in the results pane. Clicking Long Songs again will exclude the songs in the Long Songs category group and display the songs from the other categories in the browse window if no other item is selected.
You can click multiple items in each tab to display Songs with selected multiple Attributes, Artists, Participants, Albums, Titles or Media values. This lets you display Songs with combinations of Artists, Participants, Albums or Titles by using the Any or All radio buttons in the Participants tab, or the And or Or radio buttons in the Artists, Albums or Titles tabs.
Optionally, there is a right-click menu that allows the user to easily return a selected/rejected Attribute, Artist, Participant, Album, Title or Media back to Neutral . This right-click menu can also be used to Select 
, Reject 
or Select Only. Select Only will select the current Attribute, Artist, Participant, Album, Title or Media and change all other selected or rejected attributes back to neutral. Using the CTRL key and clicking an Attribute, Artist, Participant, Album, Title or Media will also perform the Select Only function.
When one or more Attributes are selected or excluded in the Browse, GSelector displays the selected and excluded totals for each Attribute. In this illustration, four Categories are selected, and one is excluded. The totals for selected and excluded items is shown in the header for the Attribute. The total songs in each element within the attribute is displayed to the right of the elements name.
Dayparts listed in the Attributes tab
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NOTE: This image shows the Browse Attributes pane with the Film Name field enabled. See the Enable Film Attribute notes for details. The Attributes Filter tab is the default tab for the Browse window. This tab displays all assigned Song attributes and also all Dayparts. When searching by Attribute, if no Song has been assigned that Attribute, the Attribute will not be shown in the list. Although Dayparts are not Attributes, they are treated as Attributes for search purposes in the Library Browse window Attributes tab. So Dayparts are included in the Attributes list, and can be expanded for selection and searching. See below for more information. Attributes can be descriptive, in describing the Song in some way, or historical, in marking dates when the song's status changed, or research-related, in marking the song's current research score for a demographic cell. For a full list of descriptive Attributes, see the Attributes topic. Special conditions apply with Research Attributes and Research Columns Attributes. For details see Using Research Attributes in this topic. Click any Attribute node to expand the list showing the attribute name and the number of Songs with that attribute. You can jump to an Attribute name for any Heading by opening the node and typing the first letter of the name. See the Hot Key search notes in the Working with Browses topic. In the Attributes/Artists/Participants/Albums/Titles the count for each attribute value is shown to the right of the elements. For Example: If you open the Category Group node in the Attributes tab, you'll see the counts for each category. In the Media tab, you will only see counts for the Opening and Ending nodes. Last-Edited AttributesGSelector supplies three different Last-Edited Date Attributes. Dayparts as Attributes in the Browse windowGSelector supplies five default dayparts (Overnight, AM Drive, Midday , PM Drive and Night) on initial installation of the program, or after creating a new station. The install dayparts are assigned in the Daypart Assignment window, and can be viewed in the Attributes tab of the Browse window. These settings can be edited or deleted. Select one or more Dayparts, and use the selection options to show Songs according to their status for that Daypart. If, for example, you use the selection options to exclude a Daypart, then all Songs which are excluded by having no Category Demand for that song's Category in the Category window, or banned in the Song window for that Daypart are displayed. See the Banning by Daypart notes in the Song window for more information. Date Attributes
The Date Activated, Date Added, Last Edited (Global, Most Recent and Station) and Research Score Date Attributes all work the same way: You can select a predefined Date or Date range, or click the Custom button, which allows you to select a custom date range. Click the close Icon to display the defined date range in the Custom line. Then select in the usual way. |
See the Notes on using the 'And' and 'Or' radio buttons when searching in these tabs.
Each of these tabs displays a single list of, respectively, Artists, Albums and Titles in the station database. Use the selection options to display Songs with the selected Artists, Albums or Titles. In the Artists, Title, Albums, Participants and Media filter pane tabs, you can do wildcard searches. See the notes here.
TIP:: You can search by Hotkey in the Artist, Album and Title lists list: select a field and type a letter to jump to the Artists, Albums or Titles beginning with that letter. See the Hot key notes in Working with Browses for more information.
Click the And radio button to search by a single selected criterion, or a specific combination of criteria. Each time you click a tab and select a criteria, you add another condition to your search. If the And button is selected, your search will get narrower until eventually no Songs may show.
Click the Or button to search by the selected criterion or another search criterion from any other tab. These conditions will also be cumulative, but will increase your results if records meet the new criteria.
Click the reset button to clear this set of criteria and start a new search filter.
See the Notes on using the 'Any' and 'All' radio buttons when searching in this tab.
TIP: In the Artists, Title, Albums, Participants and Media filter pane tabs, you can do wildcard searches. See the notes here.
Click the tab to select Songs by any Participant. This tab lists all assigned participants for the active library list. If a participant has been defined for at least one Song, that participant will be listed under the relevant Participant heading.
Click any node heading to display the options to search by under that node. Use the selection options to display Songs in the browse pane. With the Any radio button selected, you can select and display Songs by multiple participants, including Songs searched for under other tabs. Note that the Show Unselected Song count field shows all unselected and all Selected Songs.
TIP: You can rapidly jump to a named Participant under any Heading by opening the node and typing the first letter of the Participant name. See the Hot Key search notes in the Working with Browses topic.
These two Participant tab Radio buttons allow the user to specify the display of Songs by any of the participants, or only Songs featuring all of the selected participants.
With the Any radio button selected, select one or more Participants to display Songs with any selected Participants. In this illustration, GSelector is displaying any song with Steve Tyler and any song by Joe Perry as Composer Participants. Note, too, that as well as the selected composers (Steve Tyler and Joe Perry, both shown with a Green check), all other Composers associated with at least one of the Songs are also indicated with a 
Gray check.
But if we select the All radio button, GSelector looks for Songs with All selected participants. In this case, it has to find Songs with both Tyler and Perry as Composers.
TIP: The All Participants display option is a powerful tool, but only in very specific situations. In many cases, GSelector will not display anything under the All setting. Asking for All Songs by, for example, Bill Idol and Britney Spears will produce an empty display. The more detailed your lists of Participants, the more useful this display option becomes.
TIP: In the Artists, Title, Albums, Participants and Media filter pane tabs, you can do wildcard searches. See the notes here.
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Click the Media tab to open a list of media-related fields to Filter by. For the Hook Start and Hook End, Opening, Ending and Media ID nodes, each field in the Media tab can be expanded to display all existing settings that you have defined. The Hook, Intro, Media ID, Opening or Ending notes all offer a Custom field, detailed below. This lets the user can type in a value and either click the Search button or press Enter on your keyboard to start the search. The External (Media) node allows selection of any items which have External Audio status assigned. The other fields are all time-related, and allow you to search by preset time values. So you could search for all Songs with an intro value of between 15 and 30 seconds, or all Songs with runtime values of under 2:30, or between 3:30 and 4:30, for example. Special provisions apply when searching by Runtime, and this is covered below. You can also enter a value in the search field for Media ID, Opening or Ending. Select the attribute to Filter by, and then enter your criteria, then click the Search button. Click the Clear all button to remove all search criteria. |
Clicking the Runtime header in the Media tab opens a range of Runtime selection options. Selecting one or more of these options will display matching Songs in the Results pane. Click the 
More Details button in the Custom header bar to open a further window, which allows you to specify a time range. The fields accept |values in Minutes and Seconds. The selected Time Range can be as broad or as narrow as you wish. Click OK to display songs which match the selected time range. So for example, you could specify Songs with a selected duration option of 3:30 - 4:30, and a custom duration of 5:45 - 6:15, specified in the custom pane.
Close the selection pane by clicking the close button. For more information, see the Custom Attribute Values topic.
Active and Inactive Song display
Show unselected Songs Checkbox
The results of searches and list display requests are displayed in the Results pane. This pane can be formatted to display the fields of your choice; additionally, you can apply a predefined format from the toolbar. The browse allows hot key searching, sorting and a range of other functions. See the list of Results pane tasks in this topic, as well as the working with Browses notes.
The first column shows the Active or Inactive status. However if GSelector Legacy is selected for the Library Browse Selection Mode in the Miscellaneous tab of the Setup | Station | Features window then the first column displays the selected or deselected icon. If this icon is shown then the second status column displays either the Active or the Inactive icons.
The results pane allows the user to select multiple rows using Shift or CTRL. The user can then copy (CTRL+C) and paste this selected data into an external program such as Notepad or Excel or use the multi changer to change the selected songs.
When working with a complex browse, active and inactive Songs can often be shown together in the results pane. Active or Inactive status is shown by the checkbox in the Active column
Active status - When a song is Active for this station, the checkbox is checked and its Category is shown with a Category appearance where this has been assigned.
Inactive status - All Inactive Songs are displayed with the checkbox deselected in the Active column. If the song has been previously active in this station, its last assigned category is shown.
In Inline Edit mode the checkbox can be selected to make the Song active or inactive.
Click any column header to sort the displayed browse by that field's contents. Click again to re-sort in the reverse order.
To sort on multiple headers, press the Shift Key, and click on a second Header. Repeat to reverse the sort order. Select further headers, still pressing the Shift Key, to add further Sort Orders. Columns can be added, removed or changed by right-clicking a column header and selecting the Modify or Remove Column menu option. Selecting Modify Columns will open the Modify Browse Format window.
TIP: You can view which items have Note Associations in the Library Browse window, by including the Note field in a Library Browse Format.
Where a Song or Link attribute has a Note Association, the Note Exists 
Icon is displayed.
TIP: When working in Advanced Search mode, your Sort Order is displayed in the Search Summary Pane.
In the Toolbar, save any existing Filter or Song list, save a modified Filter or Song list as a new filter or Song List, or delete the existing Filter or Song list.
The buttons at the right these controls allow you to invert the Song Selection, reset the Filter, display Dynamic Statistics for this browse, export to XML. The toolbar also allows you to apply a different browse format, Merge Duplicates, Swap Songs and open the Browse List pane. Toolbar buttons may vary in color based on the Appearance Style selected.
Filter or Song List selection field
Save existing Filter or List as New button
Delete Filter or Song list button
Show History Pane/Hide History Pane
NexGen and Zetta synchronization buttons
Click this button to save changes to an existing Filter or Song List, or to Save a new Filter or Song List. If you are saving a new Filter or Song list, the Enter Name dialog box opens.
NOTE: When Saving a Song list, Unselected Songs are not saved, whether or not the Show unselected Songs box is checked.
To save a modified Filter or Song list , click the Save As New Filter or Song list button to open the Enter Name dialog box.
This dialog box is used in the Song, Link and Notes browse windows. It has a range of secondary functions, allowing, for example, with Songs and Links (but not Notes), the ability to merge a List with a previously saved list. To save a Filter or a Song list , click the appropriate radio button, enter a name and click OK. For full details on working in this dialog box, see the Filters and Lists - the Enter Name box topic.
To permanently delete any Filter or Song list, select that Filter or Song list and click the Delete button. The library browse pane returns to its unfiltered state, and the Filter or Song List is removed from the saved list.
Click this button to reverse the selections for all Songs in the Browse pane. If a Song is selected, it will become unselected; conversely, unselected Songs will be selected.
To clear a modified Filter or Song list from the browse without deleting the saved Filter or Song list, click the Reset Filter button. The library browse returns to its unfiltered state, but the Filter is retained in the saved Filter list.
TIP: When you have added or edited some attributes or participants, using the Multi-Song changer, click this button to refresh the attribute or participants lists.
Click this button to access the Dynamic Statistics window, which is used to analyze and measure the contents of a browse in a number of ways.
Click this button to view and select formats, designed and specified in the Export XML window, for Song XML export types. Select a format and click to export a XML file of the currently browsed Songs details to the selected destination for that format. If the name of an executable file such as, Notepad.exe or iexplore.exe is entered in the View Export with field of the export configuration then that program will be used to display the XML file after it is exported. If the "View Export with" field is left blank the file will be saved to the specified destination folder. See the notes on Working with XML for more information.
Note: To enable this Export to XML File button you must first a Format of Type Station Songs in the Interface Export XML window.
The Reports button displays a drop-down menu of possible reports.
Double-click the Report name to open the report in the Reports View window.
The Browse Formats button 
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can be used to select a browse format for the Song Browse window or Browse List. It can be used to save the default format as a new format, save changes to an existing format, save an existing format to a new browse format, set a selected format as the assigned format for the window or temporarily assigned just for the session. Formats can also be permanently assigned to the Browse window in the Browse Formats Assignment window. This feature is available for Active songs only. Browse Formats can be designed in the Browse Formats Design window. If the system has more than 20 browse formats available then a "More" option appears after the 20th format. Click the "More" option to open a secondary window with an additional list. Simply start typing in the list to quickly search to the name of the desired browse format.
to the right of the button.
to the right of the button again.For more information on custom designing formats, see the Browse Formats Design and Browse Formats Assignment topics.
This Merge Duplicates button enables users to resolve the common problem of having duplicate songs in an enterprise database and the need to eliminate some or all of the duplicates after selecting one of the duplicate records to remain standing as the survivor. Schedule history and station-specific attributes will be moved over to the surviving record for each station of which the surviving Song is to become active. See the Merge Duplicates topic for additional details.
This Swap Songs button opens the Swap Songs window allowing the user to replace a current version of a song with a new version of the same song, essentially moving the schedule history of the current version to the new version.
Here is an example where this option might be used: Two stations (Station A and Station B) begin playing a new song at the same time. Weeks later a new version of the song is released. Station A wants to continue playing the current version while Station B wants to move to the new version but retain the schedule history of plays of the song under the older version. When this option is executed, all schedule instances of the older version will be replaced with the newer version in Station B. This will allow the newer version to show plays from when the older version of the song was in place. It will preserve the entire schedule history of the song, even though it was played under two different versions.
Click the Browse List button to open the Browse List pane. From the Browse List pane the user can create lists of Songs for scheduling special programming, such as holiday countdown shows, “A to Z” weekends and other forms of programming in which an arbitrary list of songs must be scheduled in sequence. Lists created using the Advanced Search window are available in the List drop-down of this pane and can be edited from this Browse List pane. Audio can be played from a Browse List when the browse list has focus. See the Using Audio in GSelector topic for more details.
An additional button is displayed when a GSelector station is associated with either a NexGen or a Master Control station, and the Enable All and Song boxes in the NexGen Manual Synchronization or Master Control Manual Synchronization panes respectively are unchecked. Under these conditions, this button allows the user to synchronize the selected Song Browse with the NexGen or Master Control Song details in the interfaced NexGen or Master Control database.
NOTE: You can only interface one playout system with any GSelector station.
The Export to Zetta button is displayed when a station is interfaced with a GSelector station. If Zetta 4.2 or higher is interfaced with GSelector, the Zetta button is always shown in the toolbar. This button can be used to force push assets to Zetta from GSelector. Select the assets to Export and click the Export to Zetta button. A warning is displayed when this button is used letting the user know "You are about to send X record(s) to Zetta. This may take a while. Are you sure?". The user is given a Yes and No option. Click Yes to proceed. Click No to abort the export.
For version previous to 4.2 of Zetta, the button is displayed when the Enable All or Songs box in the Zetta Automatic Synchronization pane is unchecked. Under these conditions, this button allows the user to synchronize the selected GSelector song with the Zetta song details in the interfaced Zetta database.
TIP: Press F7 to toggle pane open or closed.
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Click this button to open the History pane for the selected song. This history map works similarly to the History Map in the Editor. |
TIP: Press F7 to toggle pane open or closed.
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Click this button to select an attribute to display in the History Pane when a Song is selected in the results pane. The display options are:
The Song selected in the results pane.
The Title of the Song selected in the results pane.
The Packet of the Song selected in the results pane. If the current Song is not in a packet, GSelector displays the history of the Song.
The Artist or Vocalist for the Song selected in the results pane. See the notes on viewing Vocalist History in the Editor History Pane topic.
The Album for the Song selected in the results pane.
The Song Group of the Song selected in the results pane. If the current Song is not in a Song Group, GSelector displays the history of the Song.
button in the toolbar to add a Song.
The Inline Edit toolbar option allows a user with rights to edit a song directly from the browse window. When the Inline Edit button is selected 
, the right panel in the Browse window will allow a user to change the values of the asset in the selected row. Optionally, the user can press the Spacebar to enable Inline Editing.
Where the value is predefined, such as Category, there will be a drop-down allowing the user to select a category. When the field is a text value, such as Title, the user will be allowed to edit the text of the field. If the field shows a date and time, such as the Start Time field, the drop-down will show a calendar control.
If the field is a multi-select field, such as Sound Code, the user will be shown a multi-select window. The Multi-select window can also be used to add a new value. Simply type in the value at the bottom of the window click the Add button next to the field and then click OK.
If the field is a check box, such as Complete Work, a check box will be shown. After the field is changed use the Tab key to commit the change and move to the next field. The Enter key will commit the change and move to the next row. Use the CTRL+Enter to activate a drop-down for selection. Pressing the Esc key before using the Tab/Enter key will revert the change to the original value. To remove this toolbar option, set Inline Editing to No Access in the users assigned Role.
Note: At this time there is not a way to undo a committed change.
If the edited Song matches another song with Media ID, Title, Artist and Version the user will receive a message and the Edit will fail.
Tip: To enforce Mandatory fields for inline editing, create a Browse Format for the user with the Mandatory column checked for each field that is required.
The Inline Edit Undo button or CTRL+Z will undo the last Inline Edit performed.
With the Library Browse selection mode set to GSelector Legacy the Songs in the search in the Results Browse pane have a selected status. This is shown by a check in the first column. You can remove any Song from the Results Browse pane by clicking on the Selected field. All Songs that are not selected for display are unselected. GSelector will keep a tally of the number of selected and unselected Songs. If you check the Show Unselected Songs box, you will display all unselected Songs in the Browse Display pane. See selecting Songs in the Browse pane for more information. When saving a list, only selected Songs are saved, whether the unselected Songs are displayed or not. GSelector maintains a record of selected and unselected Songs.
TIP: If you have removed Songs from the Results Browse Pane and you want to see what Songs you have removed, view the removed Songs by checking this box.
With the Library Browse selection mode set to Standard Windows Selection the Songs in the search in the Results Browse pane still have a selected status, but the check box is hidden as all items are shown. The selected items in this case are highlighted.
The counter, above the Song browse pane, displays the song number of the selected with the total number of songs shown in the browse pane.
GSelector displays a yield count pane below the browse with the count not yet loaded. Use the More or All buttons to show more songs.
Used with Browse Window Advanced Search only.
These buttons are displayed in the main Browse window, but are only active in Advanced Search mode. See
Using the Filter selection pane
Deleting a Filter or Song List
Modifying a Filter or Song list
Selecting or excluding in the filter pane
Searching by Daypart under Attributes
Searching by Saved Filter or Saved List
Selecting Songs in the Browse Display Pane
Text Grid Title searching (Predictive text)
Using the Advanced search Option
Customizing formats in the Browse Pane; see also the notes on assigning and designing Browse Formats.
Viewing Song details from a browse
You can 'Hot-Key' search in any field in any format, customized or otherwise. Select the field, and type in the first letter to search by. In the Browse, selecting the Artist Field and typing M will move the highlight to Metallica. For more details, see the Hot-Key notes in the Working with Browses topic.
Keyboard Shortcuts can be used to initiate the play of a single audio event or a list of audio events. Ctrl+F11 will play a single element. In a list, it will play the element having focus. Alt+F11 will play elements in a list consecutively. In a list, Alt+F11 will play the element having focus. When that element finishes playing, the next element lower in the list will play. This process will continue until the bottom of the list is reached. In a Browse List, CTRL+F11 will play the element having focus if the Browse list has focus. Alt+F11 will play elements in a list consecutively. In a list, Alt+F11 will play the element having focus if the Browse List has focus. When that element finishes playing, the next element lower in the Browse List will play. This process will continue until the bottom of the list is reached. In a non-list context, such as in the song editing window, Ctrl+F11 and Alt+F11 will play only the current element. See the Using Audio in GSelector topic for more information on playing audio.
Double-click a song in the results pane to jump to the Song Window to view the details for that song. Optionally, hold the CTRL key while double-clicking an attribute field for the song within the results pane, to jump to that specific field in the Song Window with the cursor in the field ready for editing.
For Example: If you hold the CTRL key while double-clicking the Runtime field of a song, GSelector will jump to the Runtime field for that song in the Song Window with the cursor in the Runtime field ready for editing.
You can design one or more custom browse formats to use in this pane, by working in the Browse Formats Design window. Once you have designed one or more new formats, you can assign a default format to use in the Browse Display pane in the Browse Formats Assignment window. You can also assign an existing format to the Results pane using the toolbar Format button. This lets you use any field in the Song window or Additional Information window in the format.
TIP: See also the Working with Browses topic for more ways to manage and sort information
GSelector has a feature to remind you when you are working with a changed Filter or Saved List. This gives you the option to use the changed Filter or List temporarily in this editing session, or to save it permanently (see the notes here). With any previously saved Filter or List, changing the Filter request in any way - re-filtering the List or deleting items in the List - changes the Filter or List name, appending an asterisk to the end of the Filter or List name. In this illustration, the A1 Category Filter name, having been modified by additionally selecting B1 Secondary, is now renamed to A1 Category*. Changed Filter or Lists are available for the duration of the current session. To reset the Filter or List to its original value, click the Reset (see notes here) button, or exit the window, or GSelector completely without saving any changes.
TIP: In the Browse window Artists, Title, Albums, Participants and Media filter pane tabs, you can also do wildcard searches. See the notes here.
To select and view Songs, you work in the Filter pane.
The unselected icon changes to a selected icon, and the associated Songs are displayed in the browse display pane.
Clicking the selected element a second time reverses the selection process, and displays every Song not associated with this Attribute/Participant/Artist/Title/Album. See notes on selecting.
In a keyword search, a symbol may sometimes be inserted in the middle of a search term to retrieve words containing any character in the designated position. The Artists, Title, Albums, Participants and Media filter pane tabs allow the use of Wildcards. In GSelector, the default setting in all these windows is a single asterisk. For example, typing wom*n will retrieve both "woman" and "women." Typing A* will retrieve all Artists / Titles / Albums / Participants / Media entries beginning with A. Used on its own, this will find everything in the database. This illustration shows the results of a full wildcard search. In the Participants tab, the default value of all is entered in the search pane. Clicking the Find button will retrieve everything for this station, and select them all for display. Here, the search has returned 765 selected Composers, 643 selected Musicians, and 60 selected Vocalists.
When searching through a long Song list in the Browse pane, select the Song Title, Artist, or Album field, and type in the first letter to jump to all Song titles starting with that letter. Type in a second letter to narrow down your search. This is a handy way to rapidly get to the Song, Artist or Album you want. See the Hot key search notes in the Working with Browses topic for further details.
When you apply any criterion in any of the Filter tabs, you are selecting Songs. The number of Selected Songs is shown above the Browse List. The numbers in parenthesis show the selected / total filtered Songs. The default Library Browse Selection Mode is Standard Windows Selection. This allows the user to use the SHIFT and CTRL keys on the keyboard to make multiple selections.
If GSelector Legacy is selected as the Library Browse Selection Mode in the Setup | Station | Features | Miscellaneous tab then the numbers in parenthesis show the unselected / selected filtered Songs. All Songs that are not selected for display are unselected.
In GSelector Legacy mode, Songs can be unselected from display in the Browse Display pane by clicking on the song status field in the first column. If the Show unselected song checkbox is unchecked when the song status field is selected then the Songs are removed from display.
Check the Show Unselected box to display all Songs that are unselected in the Browse Display pane, and if necessary, to change their status again.
If Songs are unselected from the default main Library view, and you check the Show unselected box, these Songs can be displayed along with any Filtered view later on.
Selecting and unselecting Songs does not remove them from eligibility to be scheduled. For details on banning Songs from Scheduling by Daypart, see the Banning by Daypart notes in the Song window topic.
TIP: When saving a list, only selected Songs are saved, whether the unselected Songs are displayed or not.
This section should be reviewed along with the companion Song window Research tabs topics, and the Setup section Attributes and Columns topics.
All Attributes that are currently assigned to Songs are displayed under this node. See Using Research scores as Scheduling Attributes for full details. Typically a user might search by Research Attributes with a specific Research Score Date.
You can select any defined Research Column and specify a score range within the range you have defined in the Research Column window. This would allow you to view Songs by score ranges, allowing a wider range of scores that would be possible with a single Research Attribute.
More details button to open a pane where you can specify the number range to use.
clear button to close the pane.
The date on which the Research Score was collected. This Attribute is displayed in the Song window Research pane. As well as the preset values, Custom dates can be entered in the Browse window. This works like the other Date Attributes.
