Copying/Making .mp's from a WMP11 Player List?   

Hello,

Over the past year or so, I have been collecting all of my music into one 
music list in Windows Media Player 11 and deleting those songs that I don't 
like or don't really attract me, in order to create a 'favorites only' list. 
Right now the list is around 600 songs long, coming from ~15GB of .mp3's. I 
would like to copy these on to my portable music player so that I can listen 
to them on the road. 

However, WMP does not have a directory that it saves your songs to, like 
some other media players. I also don't see any option to directly open or 
copy a whole list. The option to open all files from their original directory 
does not work with me, as the songs come from over a hundred folders of 
albums, so when opening them it messes up (doesn't always select all used 
files from one folder, doesn't open some folders, etc.).  Also, when trying 
to burn them onto a CD/DVD, it automatically converts them into .wmv (I 
think), making it a lot bigger than it used to be. On average, 600 songs are 
2.4GB in .mp3 format, so that's more than big enough for me.

Does anyone know how I can solve this problem? If possible, I would either 
like to open all files into one folder, or copy all files directly from the 
list so I can paste them directly into the memory of my portable player.

Regards, 
Gamesua.

date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 12:06:24 -0700   author:   Gamesua

Re: Copying/Making .mp's from a WMP11 Player List?   

I'm too lazy to figure out a better way to solve your problem.

Save your awesome playlist as an m3u.
Open up a cmd.exe prompt .

Run something like:
mkdir c:\myfiles
findstr My.Music YourPlaylist.m3u >> a.txt
for /f "delims=" %a in (a.txt) do copy "%a" c:\myfiles

Where "my.music" is a unique string found in the path of all of your files, 
hopefully.

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"Gamesua"  wrote in message 
news:FC259EE8-F7C9-497C-8926-7D01EA932628@microsoft.com...
> Hello,
>
> Over the past year or so, I have been collecting all of my music into one
> music list in Windows Media Player 11 and deleting those songs that I 
> don't
> like or don't really attract me, in order to create a 'favorites only' 
> list.
> Right now the list is around 600 songs long, coming from ~15GB of .mp3's. 
> I
> would like to copy these on to my portable music player so that I can 
> listen
> to them on the road.
>
> However, WMP does not have a directory that it saves your songs to, like
> some other media players. I also don't see any option to directly open or
> copy a whole list. The option to open all files from their original 
> directory
> does not work with me, as the songs come from over a hundred folders of
> albums, so when opening them it messes up (doesn't always select all used
> files from one folder, doesn't open some folders, etc.).  Also, when 
> trying
> to burn them onto a CD/DVD, it automatically converts them into .wmv (I
> think), making it a lot bigger than it used to be. On average, 600 songs 
> are
> 2.4GB in .mp3 format, so that's more than big enough for me.
>
> Does anyone know how I can solve this problem? If possible, I would either
> like to open all files into one folder, or copy all files directly from 
> the
> list so I can paste them directly into the memory of my portable player.
>
> Regards,
> Gamesua.
>

date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:59:43 -0700   author:   zachd [MSFT]