album list of mp3s?

August 21, 2005 9:31 AM

How do I create a text file of the artists and albums I have on my PC?

I do not want a full track list, just the artists and albums.

posted by alball to computers & internet (15 comments total)

Windows, I assume?

Are they all in the same folder? With subfolders?
posted by Kickstart70 at 9:48 AM on August 21, 2005

dir /ad /s > list.txt (depending on how orginized you are).
posted by Mach5 at 9:48 AM on August 21, 2005

they are in a folder on the server called cds, then in folders by artists, then by cds
posted by alball at 10:11 AM on August 21, 2005

It's like Shell-Script week on AskMe...

If you want to extract the Artist and Album from the ID3 tags of the MP3 files, you'll need to use something more than just the basic tools supplied with your operating system. Perl is flexible enough to do this, you can install ActiveState Perl on Windows, then download and install one of the ID3 packages to access that part of your MP3 files.

Sorry I can't be more helpful...
posted by odinsdream at 10:12 AM on August 21, 2005

I just want a little program that searches my music folder and creates a list of all my cds, oreder by artist, then cd title. I would think this is a pretty standard thing to do,eh?
posted by alball at 10:16 AM on August 21, 2005

Did you try mach5's suggestion?
posted by RustyBrooks at 10:34 AM on August 21, 2005

iTunes can export the relevant info about your collection into an Excel file using the "Export song list..." feature.
posted by arco at 10:40 AM on August 21, 2005

you could use winamp - get the album list plugin, load up your albums and then use the 'generate html list' function (under right-click). You'll get a list like this
posted by juniorbonner at 10:58 AM on August 21, 2005

mach 5 suggestion did not work
posted by alball at 10:59 AM on August 21, 2005

The two music players I use - foobar and MusicMatch - both can do this (foobar with a plug-in called Album List - see http://www.foobar2000.org/screens/foo_albumlist.png) but, of course, you need to have your music loaded up in these players.
posted by TheRaven at 11:40 AM on August 21, 2005

Oidua makes a list that looks like this. Sounds like what you are looking for.
posted by daveirl at 11:42 AM on August 21, 2005

nice collection juniorbonner
posted by monkeyman at 12:13 PM on August 21, 2005

I use a piece of freeware called ">MPEG Audio Collection. It will scan your folders of music files and generate a text report of various formats. You can have it incorporate the folder names or just use the tags. It has a number of different ways to generate the reports.

Sample Output
posted by Rhomboid at 1:44 AM on August 22, 2005

Grr, broken link. MPEG Audio Collection
posted by Rhomboid at 1:45 AM on August 22, 2005

mediamonkey. Outstanding free version.
posted by thewhynotgirl at 11:14 AM on August 23, 2005