# Having issues with Filter/Search

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/having-issues-with-filter-search/62398
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 14, 2023, 12:36am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/having-issues-with-filter-search/62398 "2023-10-14T00:36:31Z")
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### Author: ![ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ohrenkino/32/4843_2.png) [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2023, 5:40am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/having-issues-with-filter-search/62398/3 "2023-10-14T05:40:36Z")

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> [@tomx2](#):
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> Mp3tag takes a long time to load all the files (never waited for it to finish, but seems it may take over night).

See here and compare it with your collection:

> [@Sluggish performance](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/sluggish-performance/60293/15):
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> Couldn't you supply some real benchmarks? Like: how long does it (really) take to read the file? I just tried to read some 200.000 files from an external USB3.0 HDD and it took 10 minutes, 55 seconds if MP3tag resides on the same external drive 8 minutes, 59 seonds if MP3tag resides on the internal SSD. It becomes 6 minutes 43 seconds if MP3tag resides on an internal SSD and the data also on an internal HDD. It looks to me like you can expect to read some 20.000 files/minute.

> [@tomx2](#):
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> The filter box looks like this; %genre%Jazz Saxophone. I have tried lower case, uppercase, quotes, just one word (Jazz).

Perhaps a further look at the documentation helps:

> **[Filter and Search – Mp3tag Documentation](https://docs.mp3tag.de/filter/)**
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> Documentation on Filter and Search and keywords to form complex filter expressions. Mp3tag is the universal Tag Editor.

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