Exclusions

scr_pr_exclusions.png

About this screen

Sometimes, you can get a lot of junk results from a particular type of files (low word count, small words, default track names etc..). This is where you define which files should be included in your scans, and which shouldn't.

Fields description

  • Min word count: This threshold determines what is the minimum number of words a media file must have to be included in the duplicate scan.
  • Min word length: This threshold determines what is the minimum number of characters a word must contain to be considered as a word by the duplicate engine. Words below this threshold are not counted for the minimum word threshold either. Thus, if you set Min word length to 3 and Min word count to 2, and you have a filename with 3 words, but 2 of them being under 3 character in length, the file will be excluded even if it had the minimum number of words initially.
  • Exclude patterns: All files matching patterns (1 per line) listed here will be excluded. The pattern matching mecanism is the same as the Windows file search pattern mechanism. * matches any number of characters, and ? matches 1 character. For example, "foo*" matches "foobar" but not "barfoo". "foo??" matches "foo12" but not "foo123". "[]" brackets also have a special meaning. If you add these brackets in an exclusion expression, characters between these brackets will be matched. "foo[123]" would match "foo1", "foo3" but not "foo4", "fooA" or "foo12". You can also specify a character range. "foo[0-9]" matches "foo" followed by any digit. If you want to create a match with a "[" or "]" bracket, you have to escape it or the expression will be invalid. For example, if you want to match any song with stuff between [] brackets, the expression would be "*[[]*[]]*".