The Item Menu

AUDITION SOUND 
This function allows you to play any selected SDII/SDI/AIFF file by pressing the space bar or selecting audition sound file from the menu. Alternatively, you can play the sound at different pitches using the number keys ‘1’ to ‘9’. Pressing the key again will cease playback. You may also audition SampleCell instruments to hear all of their samples at once. See also dbl buffer audition and AUTO SUSTAIN for more information on auditioning.

LAUNCH FILE 
You may launch a selected file by double clicking with the mouse or by selecting launch file from the menu. Alternatively you may make a multiple selection using the shift key, then launch a whole set of files. If you double click a ghost item, SampleSearch will ask you to insert the appropriate removable volume. You will probably have to press the EJECT button to eject the disk currently in your drive, or the MOUNT button to force the Macintosh to mount a new volume. To select a volume to eject, use the pop-up menu in the UnMount dialogue,(see above picture) then press EJECT. By pressing option - Launch you can force any file (not just samples) to be divert lauched into a different application. (See Divert Launch).

RENAME FILE
By highlighting a file in the Found List you may then select RENAME FILE, a dialogue box will appear which displays the original file name.  You may 
then change the file name by typing a new name and pressing the OK button or the return key.

DELETE FILES
The delete function will let you delete a selected file from a  FOUND list.
This is a very fast way of deleting unwanted files but you should be very cautious as after selecting and confirming your action, the file will be gone forever !

GET INFO
This dialogue (seen below) allows you to view and edit comments, and see all manner of other interesting information about your selected file. You cannot view or edit a comment for a ghost item, or any items on a removable volume of less than 2MB (i.e floppy disk). Comments for AIFF, SDII, SDI, SampleCell II instruments and Banks are the proprietary format for that file. All other comments are the Macintosh desktop comments obtained using get info in the Finder. Note that the Mac comments are not preserved when rebuilding the desktop of the Mac. See your Apple documentation for more details.

EDIT CATEGORY 
This dialog allows you to view and edit the group and member category values for a file. These tags can be used to search for file groups with the same types using the initial find dialogue.

SHOW FILE IN FINDER 
This function will open the folder that contains the files on the Mac desktop. In effect it has the same function as the basic FIND FILE in the Macintosh Finder.

COPY/MOVE FILES
This function allows you to copy the entire contents of a Found List to another drive or a mountable back up system, SCSI DAT (with DeskTape software) / removable medium or any hard drive etc. It moves files from many different destinations  to one folder. Used in conjunction with the Find by date facility in the main find page, this provides a way to maintain a secure backup of any files changed since your last backup. You have the options of copying or moving,  creating a folder and affecting all, or just the selected files.

ADD ITEMS FROM DISK
This simply allows you to randomly add items to the list using the standard file dialogue. To add an entire folder full of items, open it and press ADD ALL. You may also audition from this page.

COPYRIGHT ITEMS
This allows you to add extra information which will appear in the Finder’s GET INFO window below the file name and in the version field. This information can not normally be edited by a user and can convey some hint of copyright. When copyrighting, type a password into the appropriate field. This password will be required, should you need to change the coyright.

APPEND TO NAMES
This allows you to add a suffix to the names of the selected items. This is very useful for library management. Eg. You may want to append the letters [SYN] to all your synthesiser sounds etc.This will allow easy search later by filename only.  It is wise to open and close the folder containing these files in the Finder immediately after doing so to refresh the Finder

APPEND TO COMMENTS
This allows you to add a text to the comments of the selected items. This is very useful for library management, since you may search comments in the main find page.

VIEW QUICKTIME MOVIE
View Quicktime movie: This allows the display of Quicktime movies. You may access this function with the space bar as with other auditioning.

CHANGE TYPE/CREATOR
This allows batch alteration of file types and creators. You will need some understanding of the Mac operating system to use this command.

REMOVE CHARS FROM NAME
This allows batch removal of a given string from all selected files' names. It is wise to open and close the folder containing these files in the Finder immediately after doing so to refresh the Finder.

CHANGE SDII / AIFF SR INFO
This allows batch alteration of the Sample rate DECLARATION only for SDII and AIFF files. It does NOT perform sample rate conversion, but simply instructs the files to play back at a different frequency.

REFIND ITEM
This allows batch correction of list references to files that have been moved. It is useful for updating favourite lists whose files have moved.

TEXT FILE RENAME
If you purchased SampleSearch as part of Precision AudioTools, you will have SampleSearch PLUS. This has additional features for Multimedia audio. The Text file rename function allows you to rename a group of files using a text file to provide the new names.