Help:Search

This page explains different ways to search on MixesDB.

Standard search

The simple search box on the left sidebar searches all namespaces you defined as default in your user preferences/Search. If your search term matches a category name, you'll be taken there directly (Go button function). Note that certain words are ignored in the search query: "live ", "@ ", and "at ". We also support some magic prefixes like: intitle:, insource:, hastemplate:, filemime: and more. See the tricks below for some examples of how these can be used.

Tricks

• Put words in quotes to find them exactly in that order. Example: "i found you".
• Only want to search for pages that match a title? Then prefix with intitle:. For example to find mixes on christmas day "intitle:12-25"
• Use the incategory: prefix to match pages with a certain Category. For example, all mixes by Sasha and John Digweed in the year 2000: incategory:Sasha incategory:"John Digweed" incategory:2000.
• Wildcards: Your search is automatically truncated at the end. Searching for toky will find "tokyo" etc. To override this behaviour, put the keyowrd(s) in quotes, e.g. "toky".
• Most famous categories have a short redirect. E.g. entering em in the search box and hitting "Go" will redirect you to Category:Essential Mix. If such a short redirect exists for a category, it's stated on the right side of the category page ("quick go").
• You can also search for durations. So if you want find that 93:35 min Adam Beyer set at Awakenings that is currently playing in your player, search "beyer awakenings 93" (since seconds vary from player to player, it's better to search only the minute).
• You can also search in the source code of a Wiki page using the insource: prefix. This is very useful if you have the URL of a mix on SoundCloud and want to find the tracklist: For example insource:soundcloud.com/steveaoki/aokis-house-on-electric-area-6
• Want to find all png images, 500px by 500px? filemime:"image/png"+filewidth:500+fileheight:500
• Our search is based on CirrusSearch, for examples of what's possible see CirrusSearch Help

Page title icons

The page title icons on the right of the page title link to various websites to search the current page title.

The links are different for each page type.

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  Mix page
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  Category page

Explorer

MixesDB:Explorer enables browsing tracklists, file details, players, charts, images and a lot more.

Also, with the userscripts MixesDB Userscripts Helper mix page titles in search results are enriched by icons to e.g. search the mix page title on Apple Podcasts or submitt player URLs to TrackId.net.

Player search

The player search is linked in the Page title icons for mix pages. This searches the title on domains that are supported as players on MixesDB.

For Apple Podcasts it only finds the show titles, not single episode titles.