batch file playlist creation size limit?

AndyM · 08-05-2001, 06:07 AM

I have over 4500 mp3s in one folder and when I use a batch file to create a playlist it always creates a 201KB playlist with "(Too many files, directory not sorted)" written on the top line of the .m3u.

batch file consists of...

@echo off
dir /s /b /od C:\mp3\*.mp3 > C:\playlists\allfiles.m3u

It works fine for folders with fewer files.

Has anyone got a solution for me to get this working with so many files?

Thanks.

mpt · 08-05-2001, 07:47 AM

Works fine for me (using Win NT).
I made a txt file with a size of 1232 Kb with the containts of my windows dir (it has over 16000 files...). do the command in the directory (c:\mp3) and then try to put it into a txt file.

the commands i did:
cd windows
dir /s /b /od > c:\dir.txt

If it doesn´t work try this:
- Copy half of the files to another dir (ex:mp3_2)
- cd mp3
- dir /s /b /od > mp3.txt
- Then rename the dir mp3 to mp3_3
- Rename the dir mp3_2 to mp3
- cd mp3
- dir /s /b /od > mp3_2.txt
- Open mp3.txt and mp3_2.txt in notepad or Wordpad.
- Copy the contents of mp3_2.txt to mp3.txt

I hope this works!

[ 08-05-2001: Message edited by: mpt ]

cenwesi · 08-06-2001, 07:23 AM

AndyM: is that OS win9x. I am thinking that is Win95. If so that is prolly one of the limitation if memory serves me right. BTW, y do u have all that mp3's in one FOLDER. You do realize accessing any files on that folder will slow cpu down somewhat not that u will notice it that much if u have a faster cpu..... But anyway, it is a BAD idea to dump that many files into one DIR. On NT pc's it is ok since they have a better file system than win9x/ME will offer. Hint: try creating sub folders and organize ur stuff better.

AndyM · 08-06-2001, 07:19 PM

Thankyou mpt and Charles Enwesi for taking the time to help me with this and for your suggestions. I am using window 98. Yup it's time to seperate the tunes into more directories.

I would like to seperate the files into a folder for each artist.

I have mp3s by over 600 artists and all are carefully named using the same format..
(Artist)-Song Title {year}.mp3

Anyone have any suggestions how I can automate folder creation and nameing as I don't relish the idea of doing this manually!

Has anyone got a batch file that does this?

Thanks guys

cenwesi · 08-07-2001, 06:13 AM

lol...nope some how u will have to create those dirs and dump the files in there. I hope the next time u wont do this again...i hope u learned ur lesson

AndyM · 08-07-2001, 07:34 AM

Arby · 08-08-2001, 12:06 AM

I'm kinda anal about sorting everything.

I have genre -> artist -> album

I have everything organized, and all my id3 tags filled out.

I'm only dealing with 2600 songs, though