# REQUEST: filter highlight

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-filter-highlight/18122
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [July 25, 2016, 7:36pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-filter-highlight/18122 "2016-07-25T19:36:58Z")
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### Author: ![Lestrad](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/lestrad/32/347_2.png) [@Lestrad](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Lestrad)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2016, 8:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/request-filter-highlight/18122/4 "2016-09-13T08:18:41Z")

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> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> Filtering is not searching.  
> Filtering means that you reduce a data set by certain criteria and you deal with all the records that match the criteria.  
> Searching means that you keep the originally loaded data and scan the data for certain criteria and then jump from one hit to the next.
> 
> ...
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> There has been a discussion in 2010 on a similar topic:  
> [/t/10820/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/10820/1)
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> The response back then has been just as reluctant as this time. So apparently there is no urgent need for this.

Since when is there a Search function? As a relative outsider, I couldn't believe that MP3Tag had no Search (or Find) function and that the only way to find something was to filter for it. I still can't. So if there is now such a function, please tell me.

I requested a Find function some time ago and some interest was shown in it. Please see this post where I argue in favor of such a function: [Poll: Does Mp3Tag need a Find function?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/17236/1)

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