-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Are you looking at this list in the Windows Explorer in the List-view? I'm assuming you are and (this being the case (and I'm assuming you're using JFW)), then hold down the CTRL key and press the "+" key on the numberpad.
I'm glad you mentioned this actually as I was going to talk about lists of MP3 files, suppose you have millions of MP3 files and you want to make a list of them in a text file. Well you may find that the Take Command programme (a DOS command interpreter) can be used to great affect for this task, saves you writing everything down by hand and (to my knowledge) the standard Windows command prompt won't let you create a listing, sure! you can write the output of a "DIR" command to a file but you have to edit it afterwoods and that's a pain. So now I've mentioned this I'd best get on with more explanation. Take Command is the new name for the programme that many of us will remember as 4DOS by JP Software, yep! this crowd are still around and Take Command works with Windows XP etc. Now for the commands you use to generate a list, its quite simple and this example assumes that you have all your MP3 files in sub-folders off say a main folder (in my case "C:\AUDIO\MUSIC\". You run Take command and then navigate to that folder with the standard "CD" command etc and then type in the following command line, "DIR/B/S *.MP3 > <FILENAME>" dON'T FORGET TO USE DOUBLE QUOTES AROUND THE FILENAME IF YOU'RE PLANNING TO USE A NAME LONGER THAN 8 CHARACTERS OR YOU PLAN TO USE PUNCTUATION IN THE FILENAME. The /b in the command line tells Take command that you want a bare listing (that is just a list of the files and nothing else). The /s command tells take command that you want it to search all Sub-folders and list the contents within. oF COURSE! TO SIMPLIFY THINGS EVEN MORE, YOU CAN WRITE tAKE cOMMAND BATCH FILES TO SPEED THINGS UP AND GET YOUR COMPUTER TO ACT IN A CLEVER WAY, i WRITE THEM HERE. tHOUGHT THIS MAY HELP SOME PEOPLE AND YEP! ITS A "round-aboug" WAY OF GETTING A LIST OF ALL THE FILES YOU HAVE BUT (TO MY KNOWLEDGE) wINDOWS ITSELF WON'T LET YOU GET A LISTING INTO A TEXT FILE THOUGH i COULD BE WRONG. Naturally! this command can be used to great affect if you have a whole stack of books and you wish to created nested playlists for them for use with Winamp, Windows Media Player etc. At 11:33 AM 12/08/2004 -0500, you wrote: >how can I look at the entire name of an mp3 in a list of mp3's? My >sighted friends use the mouse to maximize the column but I can't get that >to work. >_______________________________________________ >PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... >http://www.pc-audio.org > >To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.3 Comment: Dane Trethowan, a client of TFT-BBS run by Gordon Smith iQA/AwUBQRwAcilBPqY64aUBEQIIQACg5Lt4hljrz4Ah7qz2X8MSslPwu6AAn3LN 1T6rINIQZYfqA2x09n/7VmsF =vsFh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ PC-Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
