View Full Version : Playlists and Paths
To get complete listings of all the av files on your player with relative paths for use in playlists, just open a command prompt (start->run->"cmd") and do:
I: (or whatever letter your iAudio is)
chkdsk /v | find /i "\movie\" | sort > \playlist\allmovie.txt
chkdsk /v | find /i "\music\" | sort > \playlist\allmusic.txt
Now you can copy/paste blocks out of them and into other text files for different playlists and save them w/ the .m3u extension. Note: These two files can't be used as they are (not even if we named them .m3u) b/c they include the directories as entries as well as the files.
-----
As a batch file for the squeamish (save as "avlists.bat" anywhere on the player -- has to be on the same drive):
@echo off
chkdsk /v | find /i "\movie\" | sort > \playlist\allmovie.txt
chkdsk /v | find /i "\music\" | sort > \playlist\allmusic.txt
Darkroom
05-25-2005, 17:00
Or, you could just drag and drop the files into Winamp's playlist editor, then save the playlist.
Same thing, and works even for the people who are afraid of C:\>. Besides, makes it a LOT easier to re-arrange the list.
Or, you could just drag and drop the files into Winamp's playlist editor, then save the playlist.
Same thing, and works even for the people who are afraid of C:\>. Besides, makes it a LOT easier to re-arrange the list.
Winamp was what people used to listen to music 5 years ago. It hasn't been on my machine since then, and I have no desire to install it *just* for its playlist management.
Darkroom
05-25-2005, 17:05
C:\> Was what I was using with my 8MHz PC back in 1987. Winamp is a 5 generation leap forward from that. Besides, whatever you are using instead of Winamp today, if it lacks a decent playlist editor, then it is not an upgrade
bradavon
05-25-2005, 17:13
Drehm you're so wrong. It's still very popular.
I use it for audio (except CDs) and WMP 6.4 for videos. I rarely to never use WMP 10 as it sucks.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
No offence Darkroom but you're also so wrong.
The command prompt has been a very powerful tool since day one of MS-DOS and in the days of Windows XP it still very much is. I don't use it as much as I used to but certain things are still best done in the command prompt. You have full control!
Winamp is good for this but I don't like how it fills each M3U file with junk other than just the MP3 path. Personally I use notepad anyway.
p.s - Thanks OP. That looks like a useful command.
One word: musikCube - http://www.musikcube.com/ (http://www.musikcube.com/).
Darkroom
05-25-2005, 17:23
Can't be that good if you think DOS prompt and Notepad is a good way to create playlists.
It uses an internal sql database which is lightning quick at parsing and sorting by all manner of tags as well as dynamic playlists ("artist like '%Billy Joel%' where rating > 3 sort by title"). The thing is I'm changing my dir structure for on the iAudio to accomodate its dir-based browser.. so the paths in the 'playlists' in musikCube (which I could export from its internal d/b) are different then the paths on the player b/c of the changed dir structure.
Darkroom
05-25-2005, 17:37
Ok.. you've convinced me that it might be worth taking a look at. Maybe I'll thank you later.
This I've got to say, though: If it ever starts playing Billy Joel in my house, it's going to be uninstalled that instant and burned!
This I've got to say, though: If it ever starts playing Billy Joel in my house, it's going to be uninstalled that instant and burned!
I said that kind of playlist is 'dynamic' so for me it turns up hits and for you it'd turn up 0 results. ;->
vBulletin® v3.8.7, Copyright ©2000-2013, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.