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DP · One of a weyr

To make inventories of our MP3 CD's, I'd like to somehow convert the inventory generated by Windows Explorer into a text file. But I've no clue how. Anyone?

Chuck · Daedalian Member

You could use the old DOS dir command. "DIR /B *.MP3 > MUSIC.TXT" would give you an old style DOS directory listing of just the file names for all the MP3 files in the subdirectory you're in and send the text of it to MUSIC.TXT. You probably have a command prompt icon somewhere.

Samadhi · +1

Start
Run
Command
*Navigate to whatever directory your mp3s are in*
Dir *.mp3
Select the list from the command prompt window (click and highlight)
Press ctrl-C
Open Word or notebook or some kind of and either right click paste or hit ctrl-v

DP · One of a weyr

Thanks, that works! In view of the length of the contents, I have to break it down in "dir d: A*.MP3" and so on, but this is still quite quick.

Chuck · Daedalian Member

DIR /B /ON *.MP3 > MUSIC.TXT

would have sorted them alphabetically and put just the file names in MUSIC.TXT which you could have then edited.

DP · One of a weyr

Thanks Chuck, I'll try that next. I have not done a full CD yet anyway.

Samadhi · +1

Shows what I know. Neat trick.

Logain · Stretch Armstrong

Also, if you use the notation >> rather than >, it will append the file with the additional info.

lurker · Guest

and using the "/s" option gets you all matching files in all subdirectories of the current dir.