Printed list of CD's from WMP

[caveman]

Does anyone know of a way I could print a list of all the albums that I have downloaded to Windows Media Player.
If I have 300 CD's downloaded to say an iPod, it would be handy to have a printed list. This would allow my wife to see all the music available, without having to scroll through it (lazy cow) don't tell her I said that

[Gareth]

I know that the information that WMP uses to populate the Media Library section is all held in a file called wmplibrary*.db which can be found in %allusersprofile%\application data\microsoft\media index (which by default is C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Index). I can't try viewing this file on the machine I'm typing this reply on, but you might wanna see how you can view/extract the contents of this file.

ps - for an interesting read about WMP and your privacy, check http://www.computerbytesman.com/privacy/wmp8dvd.htm

[bob_a_builder]

Originally Posted by GDW1975

ps - for an interesting read about WMP and your privacy, check http://www.computerbytesman.com/privacy/wmp8dvd.htm

Most of those pointes seem to have been addressed in WMP9 see Tools|Options|Privacy
Although not having a packet sniffer, unable to confirm

[ic14]

Originally Posted by GDW1975

ps - for an interesting read about WMP and your privacy, check http://www.computerbytesman.com/privacy/wmp8dvd.htm

And thats why i dont trust WMP
I dont want M$ to know what ive been watching/listening to on MY computer.

[Paul K]

Originally Posted by caveman

Does anyone know of a way I could print a list of all the albums that I have downloaded to Windows Media Player.
If I have 300 CD's downloaded to say an iPod, it would be handy to have a printed list. This would allow my wife to see all the music available, without having to scroll through it (lazy cow) don't tell her I said that

If you just want a list of albums then you can use the information here to create a text list of the albums in the My Music folder if they are stored there:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...NoWebContent=1
Basically in a DOS/ command prompt window you would use the cd command to get into your My Music folder in DOS. For example I would use:

cd\Documents and Settings\Owner\My Documents\My Music

to get into my "My Music" directory and then the

dir > musiclist.txt

command to create a text file called musiclist (or a name of your choosing) in the My Music folder. This would be a listing of all folder names in that directory. The part in red would be the user name that you are storing the music under.
If you want individual track listings you will have to go into each album folder using the cd command and create a listing for each one, you could then combine all the lists and print them out.

[Gareth]

Originally Posted by Paul

...If you want individual track listings you will have to go into each album folder using the cd command and create a listing for each one, you could then combine all the lists and print them out.

Otherwise, under Win2K/XP, you can use the tree command combined with the /F argument, and pipe this to a text file, ie tree /F >> music.txt and this will give you a listing of filenames within each individual folder. I find it works a bit nicer than just dir.