Pasting MP3 titles only

[rpearson]

How can i paste MP3 song titles only to a word pad(text only)? Im basically trying to avoid typing the titles to a document. Can this be done?

 

[masterchicker]

Try installing Winamp. Misc --> Misc Opts --> Generate HTML.

This will create an HTML page with the list of your songs that are included in your playlist. Hope this helps.

 

[bcastner]

Not sure I understand, but you can copy and paste from a DOS command box.

Start, Run, CMD
dir (whatever folder contains the MP3 files)
Highlight the filenames using your mouse.
click the little drive icon at top left, Edit, Copy
You can now paste into word pad.

 

[stduc]

As a refinement to bacster's post you could do dir > list.txt (or any filename that does not exist) then you could open the filename with, say. notepad. The > command redirects CMD output to a file.

To make life a bit easier still, download the microsoft power toys

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

And amongst the many useful tools is 'open command window here' from explorer - which shure saves a lot of typing in a CMD window.

 

[bcastner]

What is cool about the cut and paste from a DOS box, is that you you can both horizontally and verticly decide on the text to be included.

A DOS redirection (dir >somethimg.txt) includes tons of things that you likely do not want.

Member stduc's comment above is a very good one; the reason I use the cut/paste approach I recommended above is that it makes if quite easy to block and copy to not include details such as file date/time stamps, size, etc.

 

[jcrater]

dir *.mp3 > MP3List.txt /b

/b: Uses bare format (no heading information or summary).

 

[bcastner]

jcrater,

Yes the /B switch works as well, with redirection to a .txt file with the ">text.txt" as an added element.

But there was nothing wrong with my original solution. There are several ways to bell this cat.