How to invert the search for custom tags?

Lexicon Questions & Help
1

I’d like to search for tracks which don’t contain a certain tag. Is this possible?

2

In the quick filter (at the top of the track browser) that’s not possible. But you can make a smartlist with a rule for that

3

Thanks for the clarification! Many times smartlists are not feasible because the reason for the search is rather temporary. It would be helpful to have that but the search syntax could be tricky. The obvious choices - and ! are allowed as first character of a tag so Lexicon would need to take care of that by making obvious what’s going on.

4

Exclamation mark is already special for tag search, it turns it into an AND search. So

!Techno, Vocals → Techno AND Vocals

But maybe ~ makes sense. So Techno, ~Vocals → Techno but not Vocals

5

Ok ~ sounds also good. But ! for AND in front of the search is a bit counter intuitive… I wasn’t even aware of that option and when I looked up the documentation I saw that negation with ! is in fact used for BPM search. Maybe this is an opportunity to streamline the syntax?

6

Yea I will give it some thought

7

Okay I’m changing it to ~ for ALL and ! for negative so you will be able to do something like !Vocals for tracks with Vocals tag.

Examples:
~!Vocals, Techno for tracks with Techno tag and without Vocals tag.
or
~!Vocals, !Techno for tracks without Techno AND without Vocals.
or
!Vocals, Techno for tracks without Vocals OR with Techno.