Search for MP3 tags in Windows Explorer


Even if you don’t use a specialized media manager such as MusicBee it’s easy to search your files using as keywords tag information.

1) Press F3 or click inside Windows Explorer’s search box.

2) Write the name of the tag you’d like to use in your search, followed by content.

For example, to search for a genre write genre:jazz, to search for a year write year:> 1990 < 2010, to search for a particular album write album:”greatest hits”, to search for files of a particular bitrate, write bitrate:320, etc.

* Check also this list with the best free file and folder search tools, simple and advanced.