One for Phil Harris - printing cd library

Posted by: GrahamFinch on 12 March 2012

Forgive me if this has been asked before but is there an easy to use programme that can look up the cd library on the Nserve and export it to Excel so it can be sorted and then printed out.

 

I know this sounds very lame but I have ripped an extensive cd collection and when I hear demo tracks I like at shows I cannot always remember if I have the music already. It would be great to be able to print out the library and check.

 

Perhaps this feature should be part of the new combined NSERVE/NSTREAM app???

 

Anyone got a solution?

Posted on: 12 March 2012 by SteveH

Graham

 

Try OrangeCD.  A quick Google search should find it easily.

Posted on: 12 March 2012 by GrahamFinch

SteveH,

Many thanks. Have download the free trial and it looks like it will do the job, albeit the full version looks rather expensive.

 

Thanks again.

Posted on: 12 March 2012 by pcstockton

DONT USE ORANGE.... it adds files to every folder and can jack up the tags.  All in my experience of course.

Posted on: 12 March 2012 by mutterback

I don't have an NServe, but understand it uses Linux. I you can navigate to the folder on the NServe in Windows,  you should be able to go to the command line and save all of the file names to a text file. Just google "dir to text".(The drive for the NServe will be some letter - probably something like E or F, which you can see at the top of the Window if you are looking at the folder.)

 

If you are using a Mac, you can use the "ls" ("LS" in lower case) command in the same way from the Terminal application. Lots of step by step tutorials online if you google "ls linux save files in directory to text file".

 

If you have your files backed up somewhere, you can use ls or dir to text depending on the file system of the backup machine your drive is connected to.

 

Well worth getting a bit of a feel for DOS or the Terminal to learn how to do this - even a casual computer user can save themselves a lot of time dragging files around.

Posted on: 12 March 2012 by pcstockton

If your music was on a NAS or hard drive I would tell you to use "Directory Lister Pro".  Not sure if it can see into a Naim ripper.

Posted on: 12 March 2012 by garyi

Does it not remain on an ipod etc even if not on the network?

Posted on: 13 March 2012 by SteveH

Patrick

 

Agree about adding a file to every folder but what's the problem with that?  What does "jack up the tags" mean?  

Posted on: 13 March 2012 by GerryMcg
Originally Posted by garyi:

Does it not remain on an ipod etc even if not on the network?

It does indeed.

Posted on: 13 March 2012 by okli

I've used MediaInfo several times to export my library to excel. However, you have to have access to your music folder. Another feature is that it integrates as a menu item in the windows explorer. May be this could help you.

Posted on: 14 March 2012 by Fraser Hadden

MediaInfo, in my experience, chokes on large collections. It can't handle my 3000+ collection.

 

Everyone with a largish collection needs an inventory though, even if just for insurance purposes. I can't see an insurance company paying out £n000 if there is no evidence whatever of the actual CDs lost in, say, a house fire.

 

I used MS Access in the end.

 

Fraser

Posted on: 15 March 2012 by pcstockton
Originally Posted by Fraser Hadden:

MediaInfo, in my experience, chokes on large collections. It can't handle my 3000+ collection.

 

Everyone with a largish collection needs an inventory though, even if just for insurance purposes. I can't see an insurance company paying out £n000 if there is no evidence whatever of the actual CDs lost in, say, a house fire.

This is another reason for a great media player that can easily export any kind of list.  J River comes to mind.  You can export to txt, html, csv, etc...