Use Spotlight to Search for Creative Commons Files

Check out this post over at Creative Commons org. Nathan Yergler just announced CC Spotlight Importer, which "is an importer which adds CC license URLs to the list of indexable metadata."

This plugin will in effect 'open' Spotlight's 'eyes' to the Creative Commons files floating around on your OS X machine and any Spotlight indexable drives nearby. As a result, "The resulting information can be searched on, and will be displayed in the 'Get Info' box." The plugin comes with a smart folder that is geared toward displaying all the CCL'ed music you have on your computer.

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Source: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/5473

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Check out this post over at Creative Commons org. Nathan Yergler just announced CC Spotlight Importer, which "is an importer which adds CC...

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C.K. Sample, III

Well, an mp3 that is Creative commons wouldn't turn up in a search for Creative Commons unless it had creative or commons in the name, b/c nothing that Spotlight uses to search shows up as CC. Now this adds a new metadata field so you can search for CC licensed files. Word.

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