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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: smOOzz on August 23, 2004, 02:02:07 pm

Title: MC Playlist Print
Post by: smOOzz on August 23, 2004, 02:02:07 pm

If I want to print a Playlist or Smartlist from within MC11 or MC10, what are the options?   Apart from 'Print File List' from under the File header what else can I do?

Title: Re:MC Playlist Print
Post by: smOOzz on August 24, 2004, 12:39:33 am

It seems from the deafening crescendo of silence on this topic and a previous one on this subject that there is no obvious method of printing an MC playlist / smartlist / filelist in a meaningful layout ?

Title: Re:MC Playlist Print
Post by: paulr on August 24, 2004, 01:23:24 am

You can export a playlist to a format readable by something like MS Excel.  Then you could manipulate the information however you wanted and print it.  This would work for any playlist, including playing now.

Example:  Send your list to Playing Now.  Change to that view, then select File > Export Playlist - then choose ASCII Delimited and save it somewhere convenient.  Then import into Excel...

Hope that helps!

Title: Re:MC Playlist Print
Post by: smOOzz on August 24, 2004, 05:16:45 am

OK, thanks paulr for your assistance.     I thought that sometime in the past the MC print list feature behaved differently so we could print direct from MC with better automatic formatting, but I may have been dreaming.

Title: Re:MC Playlist Print
Post by: IlPadrino on August 24, 2004, 09:10:55 am

Take a look at http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/%7Escottray/MC/xmlexport/ (http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/%7Escottray/MC/xmlexport/) and the presets at http://pages.sbcglobal.net/scottraymond/Presets.htm (http://pages.sbcglobal.net/scottraymond/Presets.htm).

Title: Re:MC Playlist Print
Post by: Matt on August 24, 2004, 09:40:00 am

You can also just copy and paste from MC to programs like Word, Excel, Notepad, etc.

Title: Re:MC Playlist Print
Post by: IlPadrino on August 24, 2004, 02:12:51 pm

Quote from: Matt on August 24, 2004, 09:40:00 am

You can also just copy and paste from MC to programs like Word, Excel, Notepad, etc.

But you won't get automatic formatting that way...  MC gives you the *content* but allows no control over the presentation.  It would be great if JRiver added this ability to MC without the need for a plugin, but until (or if) that happens, MC XML Export seems the only way to give users a way to automate the presentation.

Title: Re:MC Playlist Print
Post by: Alex B on August 24, 2004, 03:02:36 pm

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You can also just copy and paste from MC to programs like Word, Excel, Notepad, etc.

I didn't know that. That's good news. I have been exporting playlists to ASCII format and opening them with Excel for formatting. Now I can skip one step.

I burn MP3 CD's for car and a portable player and I need legible content lists.

Excel has good and fast tools for formatting so for me there is no need for internal formatting.