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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: Nolonemo on November 16, 2003, 02:33:09 pm

Title: Anyway to print out library listing?
Post by: Nolonemo on November 16, 2003, 02:33:09 pm
Is there any way to print out a list of all the albums in the Media Library?  I'd like to do this with the albums grouped by genre/artist/album

Thanks
Title: Re:Anyway to print out library listing?
Post by: scott_r on November 16, 2003, 03:02:39 pm
Hello.

Don't know if this is exactly what you want, but try downloading Scott Raymond's XAlbum XSLT here:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=5;action=display;threadid=16293 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=5;action=display;threadid=16293)

and my MC XML Export plugin here:
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=5;action=display;threadid=16667 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?board=5;action=display;threadid=16667)

Using these two together will give you a nice album view of your library in HTML which you can then print or do whatever with.

What you do is output what parts of your library you want to view with MC XML Export and then apply the XAlbum XSL transformation to the XML that MC XML Export generates.

Scott.
Title: Re:Anyway to print out library listing?
Post by: jleerigby on November 16, 2003, 03:51:35 pm
Alternatively you can add all the tracks to a playlist then right click the playlist and Export to HTML.  You can tell it to include only the visible fields.

I've used this as a way of getting the library list into Excel - just highlight the resultant HTML and paste into excel.
Title: Re:Anyway to print out library listing?
Post by: graham131 on November 16, 2003, 05:35:33 pm
Or a more simple solution is to "select all"

File Properties

Statistics

"Album / Artist"

Right Click - - > Print
Title: Re:Anyway to print out library listing?
Post by: sraymond on November 16, 2003, 06:15:26 pm
Is there any way to print out a list of all the albums in the Media Library?  I'd like to do this with the albums grouped by genre/artist/album

Thanks


Give me an HTML sample of what you'd like it to look like and I'll write you an XSLT that will generate it.

Of course, if you're looking for something "plain and simple" (i.e. text based) you can't go wrong with graham131's suggestion.  But you'll only get a column for "Artist - Album" and "Files" (which gives you the number of tracks for the specified "Artist - Album".  And it *won't* group by genre.  Nor will you have control over formatting (font size or column width, etc.)

Please don't overlook the fact that with  scott_r's MCXMLExport plugin and the right XSLT (again, which I'd give you) you get one-click generation of the HTML.  If I were feeling argumentative, I might debate that it's just as easy as using the Stat's "Artist - Album".

Scott-
Title: Re:Anyway to print out library listing?
Post by: skidoo on November 17, 2003, 09:36:17 pm

You can also select rows in the grid and Ctrl-C copy them to the clipboard. Then paste into Excel or whatever.
Title: Re:Anyway to print out library listing?
Post by: MrVegas on November 21, 2003, 06:38:35 pm
Or a more simple solution is to "select all"

File Properties

Statistics

"Album / Artist"

Right Click - - > Print


I'm trying to select all and then select "File Properties" ....

I don't see it ?????
Title: Re:Anyway to print out library listing?
Post by: jleerigby on November 21, 2003, 06:45:38 pm
Look in the Action Window.  Select File Properties then look at the bottom for Statistics.
Title: Re:Anyway to print out library listing?
Post by: Nolonemo on November 21, 2003, 09:07:30 pm
Graham and JLee, that is so cool!  I can click on a genre and print a list of everything in it.

Now, if I connect a Nomad Zen to MC9.1 can I do the same thing for what's on the Zen?
Title: Re:Anyway to print out library listing?
Post by: graham131 on November 22, 2003, 07:05:50 am
Graham and JLee, that is so cool!  I can click on a genre and print a list of everything in it.

Now, if I connect a Nomad Zen to MC9.1 can I do the same thing for what's on the Zen?

Glad to be of help.

Not sure about the Nomad though - sorry

Graham