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On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 07:25:03 +1100, Franc Zabkar
put finger to keyboard and composed: On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:30:54 -0600, put finger to keyboard and composed: I was not aware of putting the file-prefix in stars. I only knew to use the old dos *.mp3 command. dir *.mp3 /s /b | find /i "beatles" beatles.txt .... or ... dir "*beatles*".mp3 /s /b beatles.txt - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email. |
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In message , Franc Zabkar
writes: On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 07:25:03 +1100, Franc Zabkar put finger to keyboard and composed: On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:30:54 -0600, put finger to keyboard and composed: I was not aware of putting the file-prefix in stars. I only knew to use the old dos *.mp3 command. dir *.mp3 /s /b | find /i "beatles" beatles.txt ... or ... dir "*beatles*".mp3 /s /b beatles.txt - Franc Zabkar I think both of those are assuming beatles is in the filename rather than the ID3 tags. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order. -John Ralston Saul, essayist, novelist, and critic (1947- ) |
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On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 10:52:44 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
put finger to keyboard and composed: In message , Franc Zabkar writes: On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 07:25:03 +1100, Franc Zabkar put finger to keyboard and composed: On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:30:54 -0600, put finger to keyboard and composed: I was not aware of putting the file-prefix in stars. I only knew to use the old dos *.mp3 command. dir *.mp3 /s /b | find /i "beatles" beatles.txt ... or ... dir "*beatles*".mp3 /s /b beatles.txt - Franc Zabkar I think both of those are assuming beatles is in the filename rather than the ID3 tags. True, but isn't that what the OP really wants? - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email. |
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On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 10:52:44 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
put finger to keyboard and composed: In message , Franc Zabkar writes: On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 07:25:03 +1100, Franc Zabkar put finger to keyboard and composed: On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:30:54 -0600, put finger to keyboard and composed: I was not aware of putting the file-prefix in stars. I only knew to use the old dos *.mp3 command. dir *.mp3 /s /b | find /i "beatles" beatles.txt ... or ... dir "*beatles*".mp3 /s /b beatles.txt - Franc Zabkar I think both of those are assuming beatles is in the filename rather than the ID3 tags. I don't know if the following is reliable for binary files, but it does appear to work. for %i in (*.mp3) do find /i /c "beatles" %i results.txt find /v ": 0" results.txt | find "----------" beatles.txt - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email. |
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In message , Franc Zabkar
writes: On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 10:52:44 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" put finger to keyboard and composed: In message , Franc Zabkar writes: On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 07:25:03 +1100, Franc Zabkar put finger to keyboard and composed: On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:30:54 -0600, put finger to keyboard and composed: I was not aware of putting the file-prefix in stars. I only knew to use the old dos *.mp3 command. dir *.mp3 /s /b | find /i "beatles" beatles.txt ... or ... dir "*beatles*".mp3 /s /b beatles.txt - Franc Zabkar I think both of those are assuming beatles is in the filename rather than the ID3 tags. True, but isn't that what the OP really wants? - Franc Zabkar It wasn't clear; it was possible to divine either requirement from the post(s). (I still think creating a structure to store your files is better, rather than having thousands in one directory/folder in the first place. But that's just me.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the U.S (1809-1865) |
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On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 11:38:50 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote: Now for that, assuming all those other words are included in song titles, etc., I think the only solution is going to be a search utility designed for mp3 files. I have looked at an mp3 with a hex viewer to see if the artist tag has something before it that you could include, so you could search for something like AR1:REM, but unfortunately the artist tag (both types) has nulls before the name, which I don't think you could put into the ordinary search tool. Although this method of using the stars in Windows98 search, works well, I fid a free MP3 search utility, and it works well. You did say you had 4000 mp3 files; although I only have about 1656 sound files, I would recommend sorting them into folders and subfolders. (I have classical, comedy, females, males, film, groups, Germanic, novelty, No1so60s, organ, Moore, radio, and TV, and some others, all with subfolders; everyone's sound collection varies and different ones will suit.) I say this hesitantly, since (a) it'd be a lot of work, (b) I actually have been sorting and creating sub folders. About 60% is sorted. I actually had almost all of it sorted when I had around 2000 songs, but I gave all my songs to someone else in trade for all of his, and so on..... There are a few duplicates, but it's getting sorted. I have it first by type of music, ex, Rock - Country - Bluegrass/Folk - Classical - Modern. Within those groups, I have it sorted by decade 50s - 60s - 70s etc. (just the rock and country is broken down that way, because it's the majority of my stuff). Then each band of which I have more than one song, has it's ownm such as ACDC - Beatles - Rolling Stones - REM - etc. It is a lot of work, but it's getting there. But that still leaves well over 1000 songs that are unsorted, which is why I needed a serach tool. This also does not include the MP4 videos of music groups, which are separate from the music and on another harddrive, because I ran out of space. I have to search those separately. |
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