Creating list from Windows directory

Posted by: Tim Oldridge on 17 April 2004

I have ripped my CDs (or most of them) to my C drive as wma files, and stored them in a simple directory format (e.g. My documents/Transferred music/D/Donnelly, Tanya/Beauty Sleep and My documents/Transferred music/R /REM/Green). This happens to work well with my MP3 player as it is essentially just a portable harddrive (no messing around with MP3 tags or transfer software).

However it’d be handy to have a separate list of the files? Is there a simple way in Windows to create a document or spreadsheet list from the C drive directory?

Timo

p.s. running XP Home

Posted on: 17 April 2004 by Two-Sheds

I don't know of anything in windows that will do it specifically, but you can possibly do it in dos.

open a dos window (start menu, select run and enter 'cmd' and click OK). go to the base directory of your music and enter the command

dir /b/s/o:n > temp.txt

this will list all contents of the current directory with just the names (/b) and all subdirs (/s) and ordered by name (/o:n).

The result from this command will be placed in the file temp.txt

Posted on: 18 April 2004 by webrat11

Hi.

Try here.
www.stratopoint.com/products.htm.
I have Freeware Print Folders 1.3 - looks like there is a later version (possibly under new ownership). Still a freeware version available though.
Ian.

Posted on: 19 April 2004 by Tim Oldridge

Two-sheds:
Thanks very much. Your method didn't work for me - I should of course have said that I am not at all expert at this computer stuff and playing in DOS is evidently way beyond me.

Webrat:
Your suggested programme worked a treat - I'm going to have to have another go when I have a moment to define better the information I want it to extract - my first attempt resulted in much too much, but I can see there are plenty of options to cut that down.

Thanks both.

Timo