Copying files in a playlist to a location

stuey

if i have a playlist , a m3u , is it possible to basically copy all the songs in that playlist into a certain location.

so if my playlist was
c:\album1\track3.mp3
c:\album2\track5.mp3
c:\album3\track7.mp3

and i want put them into a new folder called "my music" so it would be
c:\my music\track3.mp3
c:\my music\track5.mp3
c:\my music\track7.mp3

is there an easy way to do this?

My Opinion

stuey wrote:

Words

is there an easy way to do this?

No

NotMe

My Opinion wrote:

No

Don't mind that muppet.


You could open the playlist in Word or your favourite text editor and use the replace function.

Replace
c:\album3\
with
c:\my music\

My Opinion

NotMe wrote:

Don't mind that muppet.


You could open the playlist in Word or your favourite text editor and use the replace function.

Replace
c:\album3\
with
c:\my music\

If you actually read his post you would see he wanted to move the files not change the playlist.

stuey

ok dont fight now!!!
something just got me thinking.
if i was to have a slightly modified playlist. none of the extra crap thats in an m3u playlist. just basically a list of file locations. could i create some kind of batch job that would go through the list and basically to a xcopy to my "my music" folder.

so it would be "xcopy (file 1 in text file) c:\my_music /e/c/i/q/h"
and then after that xcopy it would change to file 2

i dont know how to write a batch jobs but i have used them before. im just throwing out ideas here. what i said might not be possible at all

NotMe

sorry I didn't read the question properly. Ok so open the .m3u file in a text editor (I use EditPlus 2. Word would work also.) Using the replace tool, replace:

c:\
-with-
copy "c:\

and replace
.mp3
-with-
.mp3" "c:\myMusic\"

then click "replace all".

Then just save the file as playlist.bat and double click it and it will copy all the songs to the c:\myMusic folder. The lines in the .m3u file that look like
#EXTINF:229,Clash - Clampdown
will just give an error when run in the batch file but they don't matter.
I just tried this a minute ago so it does work.

stuey

NotMe u sure showed him. Fair play to you. First he says it cant be done. Then slags you off saying you cant read. Then you gave me a solution which took 2 minutes to write in edit plus and it worked perfectly!!!!!!!!

Good man urself. Im a happy man now. Happy Christmas to you and have a fantastic New Year

NotMe

Cool. It's funny though because I wanted to do this about a month ago and I never thought about making the playlist into a batch file. I ended up just copying the files manually. Ah well.

stuey

thanks agian for that. just another quick question, im trying to tidy up that batch job by getting rid of all the m3u crap.

1. is there a way to delete all lines of text that contain #EXTINF:0
2. or is there anyway to log the key stoke down>down>shift+end>delete>delete. and execute a set number of times?. cause i dont fancy pressing that key stroke 500 times!!!

Im using edit plus v2.12 by the way

NotMe

You could use regular expressions. If you don't know what they are just go to the replace dialog and click the regular expression box. Then where it says "find what" type:

#EXT[-`!£$%^&()_+{}~#@':,\\/.a-zA-Z0-9 ]*\n

and where it says "replace with" ... leave it blank.