Pinned KARAOKE ENTHUSIAST CHAT

[BJtheDJ]

  DaveyDee said:

Call me old school. bit if you are a Win user, I find the easiest way is to open a command window - Winkey+R. type cmd press Enter - to call up a command prompt, then navigate to the drive and folder you need using the CD command, i.e.

 

C:\Users\System User>cd F:

F:\>cd SUNFLY

F:\SUNFLY>cd SFG

F:\SUNFLY\SFG>cd SFG045

F:\SUNFLY\SFG\SFG045>

 

To save a lot of keyboard work in the DOS box, the easiest way is to type :

F: ............... to change to the F drive

Then type

cd sunfly/sfg/sfg045 ............ all in one line

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Alternately stay in drive C: and type:

CD desktop

and then type

DIR/b F:\SUNFLY\SFG\SFG045> C:\Users\System User\Desktop\List.txt"

That'll do the job for you.

 

Alternately open File Explorer at the directory that you want to list,

and copy n paste the path from the address box at he top, and paste

that into the DOSbox.

  DaveyDee said:

 

...at this point I type the command:

 

F;\SUNFLY\SFG\SFG045>dir /a-d /b > "C:\Users\System User\Desktop\List.txt"

 

this will give you a list of that specific folders' files called List.txt on your Desktop.

 

If you want to list out the entire contents of the main folder, i.e. F:\SUNFLY and all it's sub-folders then you would add '/s' in the filters:

 

F:\SUNFLY>dir /a-d /b /s > "C:\Users\System User\Desktop\List.txt"

 

This will give you a list of every file in the sub-folders of the Main Folder. You will need to trim the leading folder data using either a text editor or opening the List.txt file in Excel as a Delimited file, using the '/' as the Delimiter. This will make it possible to just choose the column with the Filenames for each folder, and save that as a Txt file, or copy the column into another WP app like Word.

[BJtheDJ]

  DaveyDee said:

Actually I chose the method I did because you do not always work with one word folder names, and it is easier to see where you trip up forgetting the "" around the split folder names. And yes, copying the full pathname as text from the explorer window will do the same trick, but I did say my suggestion was old school!! Drilling down was always a safer option in case something went wrong, because it was easier to guide users to track back. cd .. was such a useful tool !!

 

Imagine someone who wasn't too comfortable with DOS typing something like:

 

F:>cd "KARAOKE\KARAOKE MAIN\LABELS\SUNFLY\SUNFLY SPECIALS\SUNFLY OPERA\SF OPERA VOLUME 02" ...

Gives 'em practice

  DaveyDee said:

 

 

Also the example you gave includes the folder names if you are listing a group of folders, including the /a-d removes the folder lines when you are using /s to also list sub-directories.

But if ur looking for a listing of the last folder in a folder chain then there won't be any

sub-folders will there ??

  DaveyDee said:

 

 

One other tip, don't try it in powershell.... it doesn't work!

Totally agree, PowerShell ? Ptoohh!!!

 

I never ever use it; tried it and was unable to find a list of commands from the prompt,

or even easily on the interweb - nd even though I never use it I still find it running when

I open Task Manager (5 running when I just checked) - just found a vid on YT telling me

how to remove it.

[craigey1]

another simple method for listing files in a folder & outputting it to a text file:

 

Navigate to the folder where you want to list the files

Hold down Shift on the keyboard & Right-click on the whitespace where the files are

select open in terminal

Type "gci -n|outfile filelist.txt"

(you can also change where the file list is saved by giving a full file path rather than just a filename e.g. outfile c:\temp\myfiles.txt)

[BJtheDJ]

  BJtheDJ said:

While I'm typing about MP3s, lemme point you to some of the stuff that Wilkinp4 is

putting up right now,

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will take you to a collection of a particular year's Top 100's all conglomerated into an

alphabetical list for each year.

 

So far he's done 23 of them (2000 to 2022, no idea if he'll go to earlier years) and they're

a great asset if you're doing disco as well as karaoke.

Just a quick edit, the above link takes you to just 2022, use this one for all 23 of the collections

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[BJtheDJ]

  sacot1 said:

STTW8556 wow that's a long way from where my collection of STTW ends at 3350, how about sharing any after that with us all Davey?

Hmmm, my highest number for a disc set is STTW3447, but that's disc sets

 

I have 80 of their digital downloads tracks from STTW2138 to STTW9507

(calling in at 3's 4's 6's 6's 7's 8's on the way) plus 12 with no numbers, so I

think that that's the problem solved.

 

The un-numbered ones that I have may be in one or more of the disc sets,

here they are:

 

STTW - Celine Dion - The Power of Love.zip

STTW - Dionne Warwick - A House is Not a Home.zip

STTW - Eagles - Lyin' Eyes.zip

STTW - Erasure - The Circus.zip

STTW - Erasure - Victim of Love.zip

STTW - John Holt - I'd Love You to Want Me.zip

STTW - Johnny Burnette - Dreamin.zip

STTW - Johnny Cash - A Thing Called Love.zip

STTW - Kenny Rogers - Ruby Don't Take Your Love To Town.zip

STTW - Roy Orbison - Too Soon to Know.zip

STTW - Tab Hunter - Young Love.zip

STTW - Tina Turner - Proud Mary (Short Version).zip

 

Not sure what the 4 numbering systems are that wilkinp4 mentions, I kmow of 3:

1. The catalog number of the set of discs.

2. The catalog nubers of each of the individual discs.

3. Catalog numbers of each of the individual tracks that might be downloaded, these

look to be scattered higgeldy piggeldy amongst the numbers of the disc sets and

individual discs.

Edited July 20, 2023 by BJtheDJ