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 Post Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 6:34 pm 
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Is there any way or a any util that can read the contents of a directory and turn it into a text file? :?

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command prompt ?

dir > file.txt

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You could get the ls (linux) command for windows to have more options over the output...

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i cant work out how to do this (command syntax)

can you elaborate?

i want to put my music (artist folders in a txt file)

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go to the command prompt
use the cd command to change to the directory you want

for example

cd \ - put's you at the root of C:
cd doc* then put in in C:\Documents and Settings

once in the right place

dir /? will show you the available options


dir *.mp3 /s will list all MP3's in that directory, and subdirectories below it


dir /od will list the files, sorted by date

You can just add > filename.txt to the command to output the result to a texfile, ie. dir xxx*.mpg /s > cow.txt

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That will work with two small issues.

a) The name of the artist and the song has to be in the name of the mp3.

b) That you run rhew dir command from the folder (ie dir cant do recursive folders).

The windows version of the linux find command will anullify point b. If you have correctly updated ID3 tags you could rename the files to have the artist / trackname make up the filename (getting your mp3's in this state is not as easy as it sounds).

If you do then the command is : find . -name *.mp3

Which will output something like this :

.\dl\Asylum Street Spankers - Mah Na Mah Na.mp3
.\dl\Barrio Sesamo - Mah-na mah-na (Sesame Street).mp3
.\dl\Benny Hill - Mah-Na-Mah-Na.mp3
.\dl\Carlo Andrei - Mah-na-mah-na, cover.mp3
.\dl\Cosmix - Mah Na Mah Na.mp3
.\dl\Dave Pell Singers - Mah-Na-Mah-Na.mp3
.......

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try the command tree

so navigate the the directory you want to start from

ie.

cd C:/monkeydirectory/

tree > myoutput.txt

like that... the ouput will have strange characters in it (just replcae thes with the desired seperator)

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ok its more complicated than i thought it would be

unfortuanately i have

E:\Music\Mikey\

then like loads of folders for each artist each with albums inside and tracks

i think all or at least most of them have id3 tags

for some reason it isn't outputting a text file

i tried this

dir E:\Music\Mikey\.mp3 /s > Mikey.txt

appeared to scan the hard drive for 6 seconds then it said file not found

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dir E:\Music\Mikey\.mp3 /s > Mikey.txt

Do it like this, add a space because its trying to find the dir E:\Music\Mikey\.mp3 directory of which there is none

dir E:\Music\Mikey\ .mp3 /s > Mikey.txt

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didn't work either.. :(

i can get it to read in all my mp3's in the directory, but when i add > mike.txt it doesnt create a text file

same as above if i remove '>' doesnt add a text file??

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set the full path for the txt file

*.mp3`s > c:/dir/dir/mike-mp3s.txt

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hmm access denied. confused
i have all permissions

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aha i just found some text files so it must have worked on one of my last tries

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dir *.mp3 /s > c:\mike.txt

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