How to show the full file names when searching on finder?

Here is the default Finder window list view headings when a .mp3 audio file is selected. No automatic Title is displayed on the heading instead of Name. Title is among the optional menu items on the heading panel drop-down. The following is from Sierra 10.12.5.

In the Finder View menu, enable Show Path Bar. When you click on a filename in Finder, the Path Bar will show the path and filename in the bottom of the Finder window.

Certain home folders with embossed icons (e.g. Music) will offer different List category menu item selections, as shown below, than other folders. Here I right-clicked on the Name heading:

If you want to see the full, scrollable, POSIX path of a selected file in a pop-up window, I have an AppleScript that wll do that too.

Apple has decided to return metadata for certain types of files instead of actual file name.

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You could try searching by File Name. I think the default shortcut is cmd-ctrl-shift-F

However, I think all that will do is let you know that the search term was in the File Name, but it will still only show the metadata.

Vasil1908 wrote:

Don`t search for kind, search a mp3 by its artist or name and then show me a screenshot. 🙂

I can see what you mean now.

I guess that the only way to get at the file name from there is to press command-R to reveal in its own folder - then it does show the file name.

When I search for mp3 files in the Finder, I get the file names.

In the image below, under the column "Name", what I actually see is the real file names, not some other metadata.

The only way to work around this would be to update all of the ID3 tags to show what you want in the Finder search.

Or, use some other third-party search utility.

Try looking at the path when you search for a music file. I'm not booted into Sierra at the moment, so I can't check, but I'm pretty sure it replaces the actual file name with the Title metadata.

Ok, when I said "search," I really meant, "type a word from the song title into the search field" as opposed to "poke around in the finder until you discover an mp3 in the file list."