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Posted By: John Payne How to create a song list? - 10/15/19 12:09 PM
I've built quite a few BIAB songs that I use live which I keep in a specific directory. What's a good way to create a simple song list from this directory?

The standard way is use CMD functions to navigate to that directory then execute "DIR > "filename.XLS", which creates an Excel file with the song names. This works, but each entry has the date and time of the most recent edit and the file size. Here's one entry as an example: 07/02/2019 02:47 PM 3,227 All The Things You Are.SGU.

Would be a pain to hand edit the superfluous data out of each entry to create a song list. Can anyone suggest a better way?
Posted By: silvertones Re: How to create a song list? - 10/15/19 12:42 PM
Karen's Directory printer
Posted By: silvertones Re: How to create a song list? - 10/15/19 12:46 PM
https://www.karenware.com/powertools/karens-directory-printer
Posted By: John Payne Re: How to create a song list? - 10/15/19 01:10 PM
That little program works great. Thanks
Posted By: jford Re: How to create a song list? - 10/15/19 01:17 PM
If you just want the files name, try using "dir /b" instead of just "dir". That gives you just the file names with no extraneous information. The "b" is for "bare bones" listing.
Posted By: silvertones Re: How to create a song list? - 10/15/19 02:42 PM
Welcome
Posted By: AudioTrack Re: How to create a song list? - 10/15/19 06:58 PM
In earlier DOS versions, the /b was for 'brief'. It's interesting that they now have changed the term to 'bare' smile
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