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Track search: document directory filter #832

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Track search: add `directory` to text filters, add shortcut
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Track search: add examples for `directory` filter
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Expand Up @@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ to limit certain search terms to particular properties of your tracks. Also cons
Mixxx supports the following filters:

* **Text filtering**: album_artist, album, artist, comment, composer, crate,
genre, grouping, location, title
genre, grouping, location, title, directory

Examples
::
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -426,6 +426,24 @@ Mixxx supports the following filters:
title:= "Track 1"
artist:="DJ Flop"

Even though all text filters behave the same, it's worth mentioning the some subtleties with the
'location' and 'directory' filter:

* find tracks only in "My Music\Disco", ignore subdirectories
::

dir:="D:\My Music\Disco"

* find tracks in "My Music\Disco" and all subdirectories,
::

dir:"D:\My Music\Disco"

* find tracks only in subdirectories of "Disco" (note trailing '\\')
::

dir:"D:\My Music\Disco\"

* **Numeric filtering**: bpm, bitrate, played, rating, track, year, id (internal track id)

Examples
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -560,6 +578,8 @@ cm comment
--- ------------------
cp composer
--- ------------------
dir directory
--- ------------------
du duration
--- ------------------
g genre
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