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Title: Exporting my music library as a list
Post by: steveklein on October 26, 2011, 07:35:10 pm

Is there a way to select a playlist and then export some data within it to a text file?

I'd like to create a list of all my albums in the format

Artist - Album (Year)

Is there a simple way to do this? If so, I assume I can create all sorts of lists with all sorts of different tag data?

Title: Re: Exporting my music library as a list
Post by: MarkCoutinho on October 27, 2011, 01:34:06 am

Yes, you can:
Select playlist
File ---> Export playlist
Choose Text as export option

You can choose which fields have to be exported: all of them or just the ones you have in your current view.

Title: Re: Exporting my music library as a list
Post by: steveklein on October 27, 2011, 12:28:27 pm

this will export each file as a list.

if it's possible, i'd like to just export say [artist] - [album] - [year] once for each album (even though there are 10-20 tracks per album)

Title: Re: Exporting my music library as a list
Post by: rick.ca on October 28, 2011, 02:29:31 am

In a search include the modifier Remove duplicates of Album Artist (auto); Album (i.e., the expression .~nodup=[Album],[Album Artist /(auto/)] ).

Title: Re: Exporting my music library as a list
Post by: Alex B on October 28, 2011, 04:33:45 am

That kind of smartlist can be tweaked further. I use this:
[Complete Album]=1 [Media Type]=[Audio] [Disc #]=<=1 ~nodup=[Album Artist /(auto/)],[Album] ~sort=[Album Artist (auto)],[Date],[Album]

A very useful way to export such a smartlist from MC is to simply copy-paste it to Excel or some other spreadsheet or word processing program.

I have explained these things e.g. here:  "Topic: Print an album list"  http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=60597

You can find a list of several other links here: "Topic: Print or save library into a document"  http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=29911.msg205880#msg205880