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HOWTO: Another way to find EMI songs on your computer
You might have read Dave's writeup of Mac OS X Hint's terminal tip for locating EMI songs using mdifind. I tried it out myself but I just couldn't get it to work. So I thought I'd give you a far easier way to accomplish the same thing. In Finder, select File -> Find (Command-F). Select "Other..." from the search attribute pop-up and when the "Select a search attribute" dialog opens, choose Copyright ("Copyright information about this item") from the list. Search for Copyright Contains EMI and let Spotlight do all the work for you.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Steve Shaner said 12:45PM on 4-10-2007
Unfortunately, this suffers from the same kind of shortcoming as the last hint:
What of those songs whose copyright information lists one of EMI's labels, like Reprise, instead of "EMI"?
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Brian Allen said 12:46PM on 4-10-2007
Funny, you and I only have the free songs that have been from EMI.
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awaspaas said 2:10PM on 4-10-2007
Don't forget Capitol and Virgin!
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taylor Brigode said 2:32PM on 4-10-2007
Reprise isn't an EMI subsidiary FYI
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Andreas Tellefsen said 3:20PM on 4-10-2007
Thanks for the tip! I actually had some tracks from EMI :)
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Steven Fisher said 3:52PM on 4-10-2007
I have... one.
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Leonard Nimrod said 4:45PM on 4-10-2007
Here is a list of EMI labels.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_EMI_labels
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Leonard Nimrod said 4:47PM on 4-10-2007
BTW, nice hint. It's these little things built into OS X that makes me love the Mac platform. I'd like to see Vista do this with songs purchased from the Zune marketplace.
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Brooklynbob said 5:01PM on 4-10-2007
How can I find EMI music on the iTMS? Once there is DRM-free music on iTMS, maybe I'll just buy from that label until the others also get their act together...
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Marco said 5:36PM on 4-10-2007
nice tip,
funny.. I only have about 130 songs that are from EMI.. That's 130 from about 4000... 130 * €0,30 = €39 for the update.. not a lot .. now, where are the other labels, hurry hurry :)
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mrklaw said 7:14PM on 4-10-2007
Anyone know if there is a way to search for EMI tracks on windows? Can I just search through the iTunes Library xml file or something?
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Michael Rogers said 9:57PM on 4-10-2007
This is going to put me $13.50 in the hole. That's the price to pay for freedom, I guess.
Mostly Coldplay, Gorillaz, and The Good, The Bad & the Queen (AKA Damon's Band).
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Jorge said 10:56PM on 4-10-2007
I posted an updated version of my original macosxhints.com tip. It uses a list of all the EMI sub-labels so it should yield far better results:
http://jescala.com/content/view/14/1/
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JeffDM said 11:33PM on 4-10-2007
I too am only finding hits with the freebie tracks. Right now, I'm still getting them, but the good ones are rare enough that I wonder if the freebies generate any sales at all.
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Marco said 7:35AM on 4-11-2007
Well, with the new tip using all EMI "spinoff" labels, this gives me a lot higher count: 658 songs from EMI or related label.
so, that'll put me back a lot more (at least, if those sub-labels are DRMfreed as well) :)
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James Britton said 2:15PM on 4-12-2007
Cool, Apple Records (the Beatles) are on EMI! Guess we might see Brits on iTMS in May!
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Hawkman said 8:03AM on 4-14-2007
Well, there's some definite weirdness going on. With the improved tip linked in the comments, I get 7 songs - 6 of those songs come from albums which I have in their entirety, but the other songs don't show up. The copyright info as shown by iTunes is identical. WTF.
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