Bitt and I are looking for an application that will make a list of a music collection, preferable to a text file.

I've got my music as genre/artist/album/##-song title on my windows file server... so if anyone knows an app or way to just output a directory tree that would probably work... though i wouldn't want to list all of the songs, so a folder depth would need to be a setting.

I know i could do a CSV export from emplode, but my music isn't all on my empeg and my empeg is in a state of flux as a i do a mass reorg. and retag. Could i just drag it all into emplode and export the CSV without syncing?

Anyone know of a good app that foots the bill?

How about dir /ad /b /s ?

I was just going to say that. There's always tree /a > file.txt as well.

If you can't find anything that does what you need, I can write up a simple app that does this for you guys ...

Ooo... DOS! Duh. Tree looks like it will be perfect for a good simple list. Thanks guys! And thanks for the offer Mike =]

Wow, tree works really well. I used to do it with dir /s.

Attached is my current list.

- Jon

Hrmm... any idea why tree wouldn't output the list alphabetically? Mine's sorta jumbled up....

Edit: actually... they seem to be in somewhat chronological order of when they were added on the artist level. Strange. I'm having to run this with the drive as a network drive as it's on a win98 box, and i'm using a win2k box. 98 doesn't seem to have tree.

Mine's sorta jumbled up....

If you're using the DIR command, try adding the option /on - sort by name.

-jk

I was using the Tree command. It's sorting by last modified date i've figured out. Sucks! There's gotta be a way around this. Anyone know of a modified/more capable tree command?? This is exactly what i want if it would just sort correctly!

couldn't you just copy/paste the list into excel and sort?

I don' t know excel very well, but i'm pretty sure it couldn't deal with the output of tree. =]

lstree is a more powerful version of tree. It allows for sorting and HTML output, might be what you're looking for.

OTOH, I could've sworn there was a GUI directory listing program somewhere that generated pretty HTML files with full directory structure and sorting, but I just can't seem to find it. I think a link to it was even posted to this board a while back. Maybe not, I don't know.

There's a nice awk program called vtree (ftp link below) as well. You can get a native Windows gawk binary here. I haven't tested it with Windows because I don't have a Windows machine here at work, but it should work.

ftp://ftp.armory.com/pub/scripts/vtree


Edit: Now that I look at it, I don't think it'll work in Windows without some heavy tweaking. Still, great little awk script to have around for all the unix/linux people out there, it works great.

It should actually be fairly trivial to use the XML dump from emplode and a bit of perl to make an HTML music-collection "listing", with directories and whatnot....... Would anyone want it if I actually went ahead and coded it?

Very true; but as he said, all of his music is not on the empeg, and even what is isn't necessarily organized as he'd like.

YES! lstree did the trick. Perfect. Thanks man. =]

Welp, here's the list. it's a ~160K text file! Wow... I need more classical. =]