Printing out file names

pmurf

hey,

I want to make a list of all the albums in my music folder. Does anyone kno if its possible to make a print out of all the folder and file names from My Music folder using Windows XP?? I don't fancy writing them all out cos I've about 150 gigs of music.

matt-dublin

open a command prompt

type in dir
press enter

right click the screen and click mark

then select the information you want
press enter again

open notepad
and paste it in

mathew

Theres also a lovely media player powertoy(you'll find it on the Microsoft website) that exports your music library database to excel or csv etc!

BlueDrax

In a DOS box

dir /s >c:\filename.txt


Basically, everything that normally gets displayed on screen, gets sent to a text file instead.

dir /? for more options.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Or tree is good if you want to get the contents of subfolders.
tree /f /a > c:\list.txt

Can be a bit ugly though unless you've got your filenames looking nice.
You can export a more pretty html list from winamp using the id3 tags... at least you can in 2.x

ethernet

IIRC, iTunes allows you to print the details of your music library also if you're afraid of the command line .