
When populating audio for large decks which may already have some audio, you may want to skip notes which already have audio. You can achieve this by entering a filter string in the Anki browser. In this case, I want to find notes in the Mandarin deck which have an empty Sound field.
The following query works: deck:Mandarin Sound:

If your audio tag is inside a text field, you'll need to look for notes which don't have the mp3 string, and you can use the following query: deck:Mandarin -mp3 (show notes in the Mandarin deck which don't contain the text mp3).
February 5, 2026
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