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  • 05-09-2008 2:35pm
    #1
    Steoob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,552 ✭✭✭


    Hello, ive got an external harddrive media player for my tv that i've put my music collection onto. When i start up the system it doesn't initialize because my music folder is riddled with files that aren't music (ie. itunes crap and files that come with ownloads and stuff). I was just wondering is there any way to filter them out so i can delete them or do some kind of search command that looks for anything but mp3 files like */.mp3 or something. Let me know if you can think of anything

    bysies


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  • #2
    cance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,562 ✭✭✭cance


    is moving the music files out of the directory out of the question:

    for example

    Dir *.mp3 >> c:\mp3.txt
    FOR /F "tokens=* delims=: " %i in (c:\mp3.txt) do copy "%1" c:\music

    or do you want to maintain the current file structure?


  • #3
    cance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,562 ✭✭✭cance


    this will work and will keep your folder structure the same:

    Robocopy: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&displaylang=en

    c:\test is the location of your current music, wrap it with "" if theres a space in the name... e.g. "c:\documents and settings\yourma\music"

    c:\dump is where it will place all the crap you wish to remove.

    robocopy c:\test c:\dump /MOVE /xf *.mp3 /s

    rd /s /q c:\dump

    be very careful with this, it will move EVERYTHING not labeled *.mp3 to c:\dump, then delete the folder.

    I suggest you backup your music folder before considering this, also remember music can come as ogg, wma etc not just mp3.


  • #4
    Steoob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,552 ✭✭✭Steoob


    cheers for that, handy enough. I came across a pretty easy solution myself after some messing around. i just searched "*" in the music folder which brought me up every file and i just sorted by file type and deleted all the junk there. thanks for the help tho


  • #5
    cance
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,562 ✭✭✭cance


    Steoob wrote: »
    cheers for that, handy enough. I came across a pretty easy solution myself after some messing around. i just searched "*" in the music folder which brought me up every file and i just sorted by file type and deleted all the junk there. thanks for the help tho

    that would have been far simpler :o

    typical for me to over complicate matters.


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