The Search Bar

Need to find a track or playlist? The search bar cuts straight through the fat. Don’t go digging through Channels and scrolling through lists of tracks. Playlists, metadata, lyrics, notes, and specified custom fields will return in search queries.

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DISCO Search Bar Overview

DISCO is a search engine for all the content you upload. Most of the editable text in DISCO is also indexed for search.

In this lesson, you'll learn:

  1. Search bar tips and tricks.
  2. Boolean searches that exclude irrelevant tracks from search results.
  3. How to filter results.

Start a Search

Looking for a specific track, album, artist, ISRC, genre, or playlist?

Simply type your query into the search bar. It scans all playlist titles, metadata fields, lyrics, track tags and playlist tags, etc. to return the most relevant results.

Tips & Tricks

  • Combine terms to narrow search results.
  • The search bar uses "And" (versus "Or") based queries.
In this example, Search uses “And” logic to combine track title (“If Only”) with artist name “Racing.”
gif showing how to utlize the search bar

More Ways to Use Search for the Best Results

Search descriptive track tags.

search track tags

Select a track tag to see where else it’s been applied.

track tag selected returns other tracks with the same tag

Select multiple tags to narrow your search results.

select tags to narrow results

Use the minus (-) sign to exclude specific tracks from a search.

In this example, “rock male -female” would return rock tracks with male vocals, and omit any results that include the word “female” in the metadata or tags.
use the minus sign to remove text from results
  • Drag tracks into the Playlist Creator as you find them.
  • Add tracks directly from the Player into the Playlist Creator from the bottom left menu:
track player bar menu

Filtering Results

Learn about the advanced search filters to refine results further.

Common Filtering Methods

Use the Filter icon to arrange results by:

  • Year/Release Date
  • Track title
  • Playlist title
  • Artist name
  • Creation/upload date
  • Relevance (DISCO’s algorithm)
Search result filters
Check out our Similarity Search feature to kick start your creative process and uncover hidden gems in your playlists and catalogs.

Wrap-Up

DISCO is like Google for your content - the search bar is the fastest way to find what you need right now!

Questions answered

What is the fastest way to find tracks in DISCO?

How do I exclude words from my search?