MP3 List generator
 

Does anyone know how to create an html or excel list of mp3 files? I have my entire CD and vinyl collection on my HD as MP3 files and I wanted to create a list I could use as a reference. I have used a few free apps from downloads.com but they cannot handle the volume I need to scour, ~10K MP3's. Isn't there a way Winamp can do it?

What operating system? Assuming windows, dowload find.exe at: ftp://ftp.sfcc.edu/ACADEMIC/CAT/LINUX/win32-utils/find.exe

Save it to c:\ . Click start, run, type "cmd.exe" and press enter. Black DOS looking box will come up. In that box, type "cd \" and hit enter. Then type "find \ -iname *.mp3 >> c:\mp3list.txt" . Your drive will spin for a while, but when it stops and you get a prompt back, it will be done. Type "exit" to leave the dos box. Your list of mp3 files is at c:\mp3list.txt . Open it in Excel or whatever.

Edit - Excel should be able to handle that number of recods - if it won't (limit is 32k records, iirc) then I'd recommend going to a real database. And with 10k records already, I'd start planning to do it anyway. Being able to read the id3 tags into the db as well as filename and location would be good.

I am stuck in ME still. I will give this a shot. Thanks

That's odd, I don't have cmd.exe on my computer.

Type the word "command".

"Cmd" is a W2K and above command

Randy

ME is killing me. Everytime I run it find.exe ME crashes. Damn you Bill!!!!

if you've got winamp it'll do it for you too. under the misc and misc options.

That is it! Thank you. I knew there was a way.