I was wondering if there was a means/meachanism from either squeezecenter or some other application to create a log of all the ripped CD's recursively from a given starting directory?
Hopefully, that makes sense. Ultimately, I'm looking for an easy way to catalogue my library.
Thanks!
Dave
Lemme see if I remember my DOS...
Starting at the music folder and assuming you have it folder/artist/album/songs:
dir /s *. > C:\MyMusicList.txt
That will look and list all directories and their subdirectories but ignore the files themselves. It's more info than what you want but all the albums will be listed directly after the artists (and it's easy). Just remember to do this when sitting in the base music folder at the DOS command line.
So, you'd have
c:\music folder\Sanatana
c:\music folder\Santata\Abraxis
c:\music folder\Santana\Supernatural
c:\music folder\Tubes
c:\music folder\Tubes\Completion Backward Principle
c:\music folder\Tubes\The Tubes
etc.
That text file can then be imported into Excel and have every line stripped of everything before the 2nd or 3rd \ to leave just the albums or the artis\album
Bryan
Awesome Brian!
Admittedly, I'm a little embarrased not to think of using DOS commands. :duh
There's one small tweak that's needed in the command line. With just "/s" you end up with a listing for the current and parent directory, summary, etc... For instance:
Directory of D:\My Files\FLAC\ABBA
11/30/2007 05:26 AM <DIR> .
11/30/2007 05:26 AM <DIR> ..
08/11/2008 04:58 PM <DIR> Number Ones
0 File(s) 0 bytes
Directory of D:\My Files\FLAC\ABBA\Number Ones
08/11/2008 04:58 PM <DIR> .
08/11/2008 04:58 PM <DIR> ..
0 File(s) 0 bytes
Your suggestion got me googeling a bit and found if you add a "/b" to the command line, it rips out all the headings, file summaries and summary.
To recap, the command line would look like:
dir /s /b *. > <filename.txt>
Very simple and elegant solution Brian! Many thanks!!!
Dave