listing

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

righty NEAL, not Neil, my man you will ken this anyway.

Got a cd with songs on it, need to get a list of the songs so I can put it in a mail

Cannae cut and paste and don't want to sit and type out a thousand or so song/album titles.

PS I bought them all Wink

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

just need to specify your CD drive letter in the batch file

so instead of

erase mp3list.txt
dir *.mp3 /o:N /s /b >mp3list.txt

for example for me it becomes

erase mp3list.txt
dir F:\*.mp3 /o:N /s /b >mp3list.txt

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

I can't get the batch thing to work anymore

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

why not, what does it say?

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

comes up for ohh about 1/4 second then goes away

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

does the original one still work?

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

its thaT ONE I'm tryign to open

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

right got it working but it lists all the seperate tracks and so on. Grr, I just need the album titles.

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

ok well have you got all the mp3s in the same directory, with the album name as part of their filenames, or are they organised into seperate directories, with the directory names as the albums?

if its the latter, we can work with that i think

if you need to keep the command prompt open after the batch file is finished so you can see what its been up to, just add

pause

to the end of the file.

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

pause doesn't work still get the whole lot

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

pause is just meant to keep the window open, not do the album listing.

does pause work for you?

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

just does the same I can get the list up

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

so the black batch file window still disappears?

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

yeah but I get another link to open the lot in notepad

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

you just right click the batch file and go to edit if you want to open it in notepad to change it

how have you been editing it thus far then?

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

I have not been editing it. I have to get a list done so I thought I had better look into it tonight

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

you've totally lost me now.

how did you get it to list it all out off the CD if you didnt edit the batch file?

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

I just changed it, thats not an edit.

anyway heres the list, I will delete it later btw, I am not being bad, but asa you can see its no use to print out/send, this is the 2nd disc btw

nothing was here at all ever

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

ok our definitions of 'change' and 'edit' are obviously different. To me they mean the same thing. what do they mean to you?

Should be able to list just the album names, cant 'mind Razz

' how at the moment though

Forum Moderator Joined: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 19978

when you remember neal in your own time eh son! now mofo Razz

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

alright alright chill

echo on
erase mp3list.txt
dir F:\ /o:G /A:D /b >mp3list.txt
pause

obviously change the F:\ bit to your CD drive letter