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How do I search for a file in Azure Media Services Explorer

We have a thousand files in Azure Assets and trying to locate a file in Azure Media Services Explorer. The search field seems to only allow search by Asset Name which is the very cryptic Microsoft Name and not the actual name of the file we uploaded and encoded. So I want to search for a file by the Description and not the Name Microsoft creates.

Any help please?

Thanks. Rick

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@RickSpears-2346, Thanks for the great question. Apologies for the delayed response on this!

In Azure Media Services Explorer you can name an asset when you upload it.
In the upload dialog click on Asset creation options and choose the name of the asset. Just to highlight that the name of the asset must be unique with Media Services. Additionally, when you encode an asset you can go to the Output asset tab and choose the asset name there.

Media Services has limited search functionality. The asset name is meant to be a key for you to provide an exact value when you need an asset. We recommend using a database paired with Media Services where you can track filenames, which owns the asset, long descriptions or other metadata as well as the Media Services asset name.


Hope this helps! Thanks for your patience.

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Thanks Ajkuma. Very helpful info thank you. So lesson learned that I need to follow this advice on uploads in the future and that I may be too late really for the already uploaded. I believe I can export the names and info for all the assets already in Azure and do the search in description offline and then search for corresponding asset name.

Would be nice to add the search feature to include description i think.

Thanks for your response!

Rick

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@RickSpears-2346, Glad you found the information helpful. Yes, that's correct - you can export the names and info for all the assets already in Azure and do the search in description offline and then search for corresponding asset name.

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