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HOWTO: Another way to find EMI songs on your computer

by Erica Sadun Apr 10th 2007 at 12:30PM

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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Hawkman

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.

April 14 2007 at 8:03 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jamesbritton

Cool, Apple Records (the Beatles) are on EMI! Guess we might see Brits on iTMS in May!

April 12 2007 at 2:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Marco F.

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) :)

April 11 2007 at 7:32 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
JD

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.

April 10 2007 at 11:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jorge

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/

April 10 2007 at 10:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mikey

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).

April 10 2007 at 9:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mrklaw

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?

April 10 2007 at 7:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Marco F.

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 :)

April 10 2007 at 5:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris

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.

April 10 2007 at 4:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Chris

Here is a list of EMI labels.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_EMI_labels

April 10 2007 at 4:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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