NOT filter is not working

[Ninja_Theory]

NOT filter does not seem to be working.

For example:

RATING PRESENT works fine but NOT RATING PRESENT returns nothing, when I know it should return thousands of tracks.

Can anyone offer advice? I hope I'm missing something obvious as this is a very useful filter for my workflow.

[ohrenkino]

Have you tried
rating MISSING

Filtering and Searching Files and Tags

The Filter field in Mp3tag's toolbar allows for searching files that meet a certain criteria (e.g., the filename contains specific characters or a tag field has a specific content). To filter the file list simply start typing in the filter field. As a result, all files that contain the specified filter string in their tag or filename are listed in the file list. Sometimes it is necessary to use more complex criteria to search for files (e.g., all files of a specific genre but not of that arti…

[Ninja_Theory]

Hi ohrenkino. Thank you. That worked. Didn't know about that filter. I re-read the filter basics earlier on the website. I must have missed that one. Thank you! Edit: Re-read the page and now I see it clearly. Many thanks again for pointing me to it so quickly!