Is there ANY way possible that I can copy & paste the Artist/Title info of mp3s all in one go?

Question

i.e I have about 600 tunes in a folder in My Music. If isimply Copy & Paste, it's going to do the files, which is not what I want to do. How can i select the written info for copy & paste to a Word document so I can list them all ready to print? I hope that makes sense.

Answer 1

Hi,

Click Start->Run and type cmd

This will open a command prompt window. Use the cd command to change to the directory where all your files are stored. If the files are all in the same folder use:

dir /B > music.txt

This will create a file called music.txt in your music folder with all the file names in this directory.

If they are not in the same directory then go to the top most level director and use:

dir /S /B > music.txt

This will go through all sub directories. You may need to do a bit of editing of the file in this case, but nothing a find and replace won't fix in a few minutes.

HTH

PS feel free to use music.doc for example instead so that it creates a Word doc for you...

Answer 2

I supply such obtrusive solutions a thumbs down and don't examine previous the 1st few traces as quickly because it is going to become sparkling that's basically a replica and paste activity. even while that's somebody's hand-typed opinion I on occasion supply up after ten traces or so, I might desire to be incredibly bored to ascertain previous that.

Answer 3

If the artist and title are in the file name, then open up MS-DOS, list the contents of the directory and c+p that into notepad.

Use find+replace to format it (replace .mp3 with whitespace, for example).

dir /? shows you options for formatting dir output, can't remember the one that just prints off filenames.


One day, DOS will be able to output to files...

Answer 4

Take all the songs and open them up in Widnows Media player and use the internet to find all the information of each song.

Answer 5

I have tried many times. I'm pretty sure there is no way to do it. I've tried making playlists in winamp and opening them with windows, but that doesn't work. If there is I would love to know as well.