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Title: Print a Album List
Post by: pcstockton on November 20, 2010, 03:32:23 pm

Is there a way to export only the list of albums, not an entire tracklist, as a report?

I want to print up a new album list.

thanks!
Patrick

Title: Re: Print a Album List
Post by: Alex B on November 20, 2010, 04:20:39 pm

You can create a smartlist that excludes duplicates of Album Artist (auto) & Album. Here is a smartlist rule that should work:
[Media Type]=[Audio] ~nodup=[Album Artist /(auto/)],[Album]

The list will then show only one track from each album. You can set the smartlist to show only the columns that you want to print. For example: Album Artist (auto), Date, Album, and perhaps the Filename (path) column if the location is important.

MC has a print command, but you will have better control of the layout if you paste the contents of the list to Excel or some other spreadsheet or word processor. (select all files in the list > copy > change to the other program > paste)

EDIT

I have used this rule:
[Complete Album]=1 [Media Type]=[Audio] [Disc #]=<=1 ~nodup=[Album Artist /(auto/)],[Album] ~sort=[Album Artist (auto)],[Date],[Album]

It limits the results to complete albums, excludes the disc numbers 2 or bigger, and sorts the resulting list.

Title: Re: Print a Album List
Post by: pcstockton on November 21, 2010, 02:46:34 pm

thanks alex.  That worked perfectly.

I appreciate the help.

-Patrick

Title: Re: Print a Album List
Post by: vetkooper on February 08, 2011, 08:14:38 am

thanks, I needed this as well.

Title: Re: Print a Album List
Post by: terrya64 on August 13, 2011, 12:14:08 pm

Thanks Alex B, I was just trying to figure out both these things, show complete/incomplete albums and how to print a list.

Title: Re: Print a Album List
Post by: MrC on August 23, 2013, 08:20:40 pm

Adding some more info to an old thread for future reference.  See also:

   http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=83023.0 (http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=83023.0)