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edbro

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AutoBuild Playlists from Folders
« on: October 10, 2004, 03:00:45 pm »

Does anybody know of a program that will automatically build playlists by searching folders? I have about 400 albums in separate folders and I would like a program that will search these folders and build playlists automatically.

MC doesn't do this already does it?
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Re:AutoBuild Playlists from Folders
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2004, 03:50:29 pm »

edbro

what do you want in the playlist? you can do random, limit type arguments. so you get, for example 100 random tracks or whatever...

is that sufficient?

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Re:AutoBuild Playlists from Folders
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2004, 04:53:10 pm »

Did you try the "hard disk location" view in MC?  It's under advanced.  Maybe it would help.

Also take a look what you can do by right clicking on Audio, for example, and adding a view scheme.
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Re:AutoBuild Playlists from Folders
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2004, 10:46:34 pm »

Someone on Neowin pointed me to what I was looking for:
http://kanjischool.com/mp3folders/

I am posting in case anybody else is looking for this capability. It built playlists for 380 albums in about 20 seconds.
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Re:AutoBuild Playlists from Folders
« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2004, 07:48:10 pm »

I wrote one pretty quickly that generates m3u files.
It uses hta (HTML Application) and wscript technology from
Microsoft.  It basically recurses a "base" directory an creates m3u files
for the directory under it.
That is:

c:\Music\Jethro Tull\Thick As A Brick
c:\Music\Jethro Tull\A Passion Play

and starting at c:\Music

would create
c:\Music\music.m3u (contains all music files in all directories)
c:\Music\Jethro Tull\Jethro Tull.m3u (contains all music files in the Jethro Tull directory)
c:\Music\Jethro Tull\Thick As A Brick\Thick As A Brick.m3u (contains all music files in the Thick As A Brick directory)
c:\Music\Jethro Tull\A Passion Play\A Passion Play.m3u (contains all music files in the A Passion Play directory)

I wrote it when I used MediaCenter to ri[/catalog and QCD to play.  No I just use MediaCenter.
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Re:AutoBuild Playlists from Folders
« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2004, 10:45:58 am »

That sounds interesting but way beyond my capabilites to program something like that.  ;) Mp3folders did exactly what I wanted and did it very fast.

I understand that MC has the ability to select by folders but I was looking to build a list of playlists to populate a menu I built to select albums.
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Re:AutoBuild Playlists from Folders
« Reply #6 on: October 28, 2004, 11:46:26 am »

try http://www.sprintbit.com/playlist.htm - it's the only thing i've seen that does what you want
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