CMD mp3 help needed

fletch

Anyone know how I would enqueue a directory of mp3s into winamp from the command prompt?

fletch

Anyone....nobody's even looked at this post...come on guys!

leche solara

Why would you want to do that?

fletch

Found out how to do it.....cause my dad has mp3s on the computer and so do i.

I want there to be two icons on the desktop, one for him and one for me, that will load our individual songs.

Also each time I open the list, it will be refreshed so I won't have to clear the list and then re-enqueue all the songs, when I get new ones.

aidan_walsh

I have taken a quick google, and I can't find anything about controlling Winamp through the command line. Not sure if it can even be done...

NotMe

fletch wrote:

Found out how to do it.....cause my dad has mp3s on the computer and so do i.

I want there to be two icons on the desktop, one for him and one for me, that will load our individual songs.

Also each time I open the list, it will be refreshed so I won't have to clear the list and then re-enqueue all the songs, when I get new ones.

So how did you do it? All you have to do is save two playlists to the desktop and double click on the playlist to enqueue all the songs.

fletch

NotMe wrote:

So how did you do it? All you have to do is save two playlists to the desktop and double click on the playlist to enqueue all the songs.

That's all well and good until you get new songs and then you have to go and add the songs to the playlist and save the playlist, this way your songs are automatically added to your playlist everytime you reopen winamp....
(now to find out how to clear the previous playlist)
Here's the code so far

@echo off
cd\
cd\program files\winamp\
winamp.exe /add x:\locationOfSongs 
exit

NotMe

So to clear the previous playlist save a blank playlist called "blank.m3u" in the winamp folder and then your batch file looks like:

@echo off
cd\
cd\program files\winamp\
blank.m3u
winamp.exe /add x:\locationOfSongs 
exit

The only problem is that all your songs have to be in the same folder. Is there anyway you could load a directory and all subdirectories?

fletch

NotMe wrote:

So to clear the previous playlist save a blank playlist called "blank.m3u" in the winamp folder and then your batch file looks like:

@echo off
cd\
cd\program files\winamp\
blank.m3u
winamp.exe /add x:\locationOfSongs 
exit

The only problem is that all your songs have to be in the same folder. Is there anyway you could load a directory and all subdirectories?

/add x:\locationOfSongs will load the directory and all subdirectories but
blank.m3u will only clear a saved playlist, and not the current playlist

fletch

I take it all back, it does work....here's the final code

@echo off
cd\
cd\program files\winamp\
winamp.exe blank.m3u /add x:\locationOfSongs 
exit

NotMe

the reason it wouldn't load subdirectories for me is because I had - d:\mymusic\"
it worked when I got rid of the last backslash - "d:\mymusic"

I also discovered that the first song in the playlist is "add" and in fact you don't need the /add at all. And you can put as many directories as you want

@echo off
cd \program files\winamp\
winamp.exe blank.m3u "d:\mymusic" "d:\downloads\mp3"
exit

Thanks for this It's a handy shortcut to have.

fletch

Yeh my first two songs are blank and add.....Mmmm must take out the add when I get home....does blank appear in your playlist?

NotMe

fletch wrote:

.does blank appear in your playlist?

No. (Eh, the word "blank" or a blank entry? )

fletch

NotMe wrote:

No. (Eh, the word "blank" or a blank entry? )

The word blank does....not that that would really bother me too much though