Creating CD covers with Folder structure ?

[StickyNomad]

Hi all,

I'd like to print covers for my MP3-Album CDs containing their directory structure:
(The front cover would suffice, I have no need to print back-cover, CD or booklet)

The CD Folder Strucure is always the same:
[Artist1]\[Year Albumname1]
[Artist1]\[Year Albumname2]
[Artist2]\[Year Albumname1]
...

I simply would like to print a cover in the following style:

Kyuss
1992 Blues for the red sun
1994 Sky Valley

Queens of the Stone Age
1998 Queens of the Stone Age
2000 Rated R
2002 Songs for the Deaf

Soul Coughing
1996 Irresistible Bliss
...

So my wanted app simply should print out every level-one folder (if possible formatted in bold e.g) followed by its subfolders. All should be sorted alphabetically, respectively by numbers.

Actually that's all I need so I could write a perl script or batch-file and create an HTML-File to print that out, but maybe someone already knows how to script/batch this task so I won't thave to re-invent the wheel

I also tried WDX Infopacker Plugin wich is quite promising, but it lacks (or I didn't find it) the possibility to scan only folders and to structurize the oputput in the kind I showed above.

The best of all would be a freeware tool that can do this and more, but I didn't found a decent app yet (cdrLabel and CD2HTML were quite close but they're not free and also lack some features to fit my exact needs).

Thx in advance

[majkinetor]

Code: Select all

@echo off
set OUT=album_list.html

echo off >%OUT%
for /F "delims=" %%i in ('dir /b /A:D') do ( 
   >>%OUT% echo ^<H2^> %%i ^</H2^>
   >>%OUT% echo ^<pre^>
   >>%OUT% dir /b /A:D "%%i" 
   >>%OUT% echo ^</pre^>
)

It can be visualy enhanced on various places, ofcourse. This is just a basic procedure. YOu don't need 3th party tool for this. You can customize this the exact way you want. I will further help you with this if there is need for that, mainly because I like people who organize their music. I have about 10 000 CDs on my HD all organised like you are in the real store.

I also have suggestion for you... experiment witho other types of music... there are no genres, just current feeling.

[majkinetor]

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[StickyNomad]

2majkinetor

Thanks very well, that batch seems to be a nice base for me.

there are no genres, just current feeling

exactly. And since I own a few more than the above mentioned Albums you can be sure there's quite a variety in my collection (as already is in those few examples, cos 'soul coughing' differs quite a bit from kyuss/queens tpye of music) But thanks for your advice

And I have a little advice for you, too: Try to listen the 'neurosis' or 'eisenvater' kind of music not too often, this could be a reason for the offensiveness you show sometimes (not yet to me...)

[majkinetor]

Try to listen the 'neurosis' or 'eisenvater' kind of music not too often,

I listen and do mainly ambiental computer music... something like Soundtrack of BladeRunner movie... or "Selected ambient works" by Aphex Twin... I must admit that I am bigest fun of German electronic music, which you may know much better (some of my favorites are Pole, Rechenchentrum, Monolake etc). I enjoy that pure mathematics in music of your nation.

And my agressive style is just mascarade because of my own reasons. Lets just say I consider it as an examination method ...

And I am nice to people that are not bad to me, like you already noticed.

[SanskritFritz]

2majkinetor
You still owe me that snow music, dont forget it

[majkinetor]

SanskritFritz
I didn't.
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As it seems that I will soon be banned from this space, I can still asure you that I always keep to what I said.