Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 04:04:25 -0700
From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] OT: My challenge copying files

Quoting Matthew Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 08:57:55 +0000
> From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: OT: My challenge copying files
> 
> I wonder if anyone on the list familiar with Windows and coding might have 
> some suggestions for me.

I try not to be familiar with Windows but lets see ...

 
> I?m trying to figure out how to take an MP3 M3U playlist file, and get 
> windows to copy each file in it to this CF/microdrive in the same order they
> 
> appear in the M3U file.
> 
> The M3u is just an acsii text file with the path to each file on separate 
> lines.  I could get WordBasic to write a DOS batch file that would do it.  
> But then there?s the minor problem of Windows DOS not dealing with long file

I find Microsoft Excel actually does a pretty good job at changing lists from
something to something else ... VI/VIM/GVIM also do a pretty decent job ... 

 
> names very well.
> 
> The deal is that this NEX II MP3 player doesn?t support M3U playlist files. 
> 
> But it will play files in the order that they were written to the CF card 
> (something about the way the files appear in the FAT).
> 
> So for the moment, I?ve been copying files one by one in order to create 
> virtual play lists.  But it sure would be really convenient to be able to 
> run a little program to copy files from the L70 HDD to the microdrive from 
> an M3U file.
> 
> Any ideas from our extensively trained and experienced group of 
> Librettorati?  (Gosh I like that term...  Wasn?t that from Fran?  Where?s 
> she been these days?)

Does the MP3 player support long filenames? If so, just surround the filenames
with quotes as in have each line in your batch file read:

copy "d:\mp3\blah album\somethingorother.mp3" "e:\blah
album-somethingorother.mp3"

If the player doesn't like long filenames, you'll have to do some truncation and
sequential numbering thing (and surround the source with quotes). 



- Raymond




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