Are there any file tricks for windows?

I have a big directory on my server with many gigs of MP3 files. Since
my local machines all have access, it is simple to create play lists
the selectively pull out the songs I want on the clients. It gets far
more complicated to create a subset of these files on another machine.
(like the MP3 player in my car)
I can manually drag them over one at a time but that takes a while. I
was wondering if there was some kind of windows solution that would
use the play list (basically a text file with all of the file names)
to selectively copy them.
At this point I am using dBase to create a big batch file that is just
a buttload of "copy" commands. It works but it seems like MS should
have invented this wheel already.
I am just happy I didn't have to type out ~45kb of a batch file to
move 4g of music to a stick. dBase does it in a couple seconds.
Running the batch file takes a while but I don't have to do anything.

gfretwell,

I was wondering if there was some kind of windows solution
that would use the play list (basically a text file with all of the
file names) to selectively copy them.

You could use XP's build-in VBScript to read the playlist file and copy the
music files mentioned in it to the stick. It would save you the step of
generating the batchfile.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser




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schreef in berichtnieuws
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I have a big directory on my server with many gigs of MP3 files. Since
my local machines all have access, it is simple to create play lists
the selectively pull out the songs I want on the clients. It gets far
more complicated to create a subset of these files on another machine.
(like the MP3 player in my car)
I can manually drag them over one at a time but that takes a while. I
was wondering if there was some kind of windows solution that would
use the play list (basically a text file with all of the file names)
to selectively copy them.
At this point I am using dBase to create a big batch file that is just
a buttload of "copy" commands. It works but it seems like MS should
have invented this wheel already.
I am just happy I didn't have to type out ~45kb of a batch file to
move 4g of music to a stick. dBase does it in a couple seconds.
Running the batch file takes a while but I don't have to do anything.

I guess the question is whether a VBS script is easier to do than a
dBase script.

On Wed, 8 Jun 2016 10:47:52 +0200, "R.Wieser"
wrote:

gfretwell,

I was wondering if there was some kind of windows solution
that would use the play list (basically a text file with all of the
file names) to selectively copy them.

You could use XP's build-in VBScript to read the playlist file and copy the
music files mentioned in it to the stick. It would save you the step of
generating the batchfile.

gfretwell,

I guess the question is whether a VBS script is easier to do
than a dBase script.

If you would be a novice at both it would not make much difference. If you
however are acquainted with DBase scripting but not (yet) with VBScript than
using the latter will, at least for some time, be bit harder. :-)

But Google does have nice examples in regard to using VBScript to read lines
from a textfile as well as to how to copy files, which could be used as a
start.

And if it won't work at all than I guess that the people at
microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript will be more than willing to help.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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I guess the question is whether a VBS script is easier to do than a
dBase script.

On Wed, 8 Jun 2016 10:47:52 +0200, "R.Wieser"
wrote:

gfretwell,

I was wondering if there was some kind of windows solution
that would use the play list (basically a text file with all of the
file names) to selectively copy them.

You could use XP's build-in VBScript to read the playlist file and copy
the
music files mentioned in it to the stick. It would save you the step of
generating the batchfile.

On Wed, 08 Jun 2016 09:47:52 +0100, R.Wieser wrote:

gfretwell,

I was wondering if there was some kind of windows solution
that would use the play list (basically a text file with all of the
file names) to selectively copy them.

You could use XP's build-in VBScript to read the playlist file and copy
the
music files mentioned in it to the stick. It would save you the step of
generating the batchfile.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


or ask in alt.msdos.batch(.nt)
It's the "selective" bit that'd be tricky.
You know about Ctrl-click to unselect, (in File Explorer) right?

-- Origional message:
schreef in berichtnieuws
...
I have a big directory on my server with many gigs of MP3 files. Since
my local machines all have access, it is simple to create play lists
the selectively pull out the songs I want on the clients. It gets far
more complicated to create a subset of these files on another machine.
(like the MP3 player in my car)
I can manually drag them over one at a time but that takes a while. I
was wondering if there was some kind of windows solution that would
use the play list (basically a text file with all of the file names)
to selectively copy them.
At this point I am using dBase to create a big batch file that is just
a buttload of "copy" commands. It works but it seems like MS should
have invented this wheel already.
I am just happy I didn't have to type out ~45kb of a batch file to
move 4g of music to a stick. dBase does it in a couple seconds.
Running the batch file takes a while but I don't have to do anything.




--
Bah, and indeed, Humbug

On Wed, 8 Jun 2016 17:12:28 +0200, "R.Wieser"
wrote:

gfretwell,

I guess the question is whether a VBS script is easier to do
than a dBase script.

If you would be a novice at both it would not make much difference. If you
however are acquainted with DBase scripting but not (yet) with VBScript than
using the latter will, at least for some time, be bit harder. :-)
I was really just asking if there was a tool in windows. I know you
can write a program to do it.

On Wed, 08 Jun 2016 17:40:37 +0100, "Kerr Mudd-John"
wrote:

or ask in alt.msdos.batch(.nt)
It's the "selective" bit that'd be tricky.
You know about Ctrl-click to unselect, (in File Explorer) right?


When you are going through 8000 files to select the few hundred you
want, that takes a long time.

wrote:
On Wed, 08 Jun 2016 17:40:37 +0100, "Kerr Mudd-John"
wrote:

or ask in alt.msdos.batch(.nt)
It's the "selective" bit that'd be tricky.
You know about Ctrl-click to unselect, (in File Explorer) right?

When you are going through 8000 files to select the few hundred you
want, that takes a long time.

Why not try a search on "iTunes alternatives"
and see if there is some software to do it
for you ? (I don't have a music collection,
so have no need of such a software here...)

Paul

On Wed, 08 Jun 2016 14:01:49 -0400, Paul wrote:

wrote:
On Wed, 08 Jun 2016 17:40:37 +0100, "Kerr Mudd-John"
wrote:

or ask in alt.msdos.batch(.nt)
It's the "selective" bit that'd be tricky.
You know about Ctrl-click to unselect, (in File Explorer) right?

When you are going through 8000 files to select the few hundred you
want, that takes a long time.

Why not try a search on "iTunes alternatives"
and see if there is some software to do it
for you ? (I don't have a music collection,
so have no need of such a software here...)

Paul

So there is nothing in windows, that was what I was asking. Thanks
all.

gfretwell,

I was really just asking if there was a tool in windows.

If that is what you're out for than the answer will probably be "no".

You see, the task as you described it (read lines from a file, use read line
as a filename that should be copied to a new target) both simply isn't
complex enough to warrant a seperate program, as well as the OS itself being
able to do it for you with a bit of simple build-in scripting. In other
words: I think you're hunting for an unicorn.

But than again, people have been known for creating programs for the
simpelest of tasks, so its possible you could get lucky. :-)

I know you can write a program to do it.

And I know you can, as you mentioned having done so with some DBase
scripting generating a batch file. I just mentioned VBScript as being able
to do the whole thing on its own (not needing to generate an intermediate
batch file), as well as having better capabilities in regard to error
checking.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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On Wed, 8 Jun 2016 17:12:28 +0200, "R.Wieser"
wrote:

gfretwell,

I guess the question is whether a VBS script is easier to do
than a dBase script.

If you would be a novice at both it would not make much difference. If
you
however are acquainted with DBase scripting but not (yet) with VBScript
than
using the latter will, at least for some time, be bit harder. :-)
I was really just asking if there was a tool in windows. I know you
can write a program to do it.

wrote:
On Wed, 08 Jun 2016 14:01:49 -0400, Paul wrote:

wrote:
On Wed, 08 Jun 2016 17:40:37 +0100, "Kerr Mudd-John"
wrote:

or ask in alt.msdos.batch(.nt)
It's the "selective" bit that'd be tricky.
You know about Ctrl-click to unselect, (in File Explorer) right?
When you are going through 8000 files to select the few hundred you
want, that takes a long time.
Why not try a search on "iTunes alternatives"
and see if there is some software to do it
for you ? (I don't have a music collection,
so have no need of such a software here...)

Paul

So there is nothing in windows, that was what I was asking. Thanks
all.

Groove Music Player
Zune related stuff
Windows Media Player
Windows Media Center

Sync just doesn't seem to be a concept.
Playlist is in their vocabulary.
Streaming is a thing.

And Zune was just as inconvenient as iPod.
I don't even know what the application that
worked with Zune, looked like. I get the
impression from this, that at least some
of the content involved here, was purchased
rather than ripped. Groove might well be similar,
as in Windows 10, as soon as it was half-debugged,
it became a "subscription" service.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/m...4-e1e8c448cd2f

I'm sure Microsoft has dabbled in it, but
never got good at it. Or we'd find references
in iTunes threads, about "how you could do
it like Microsoft". I don't think that happens...

Paul

wrote:
On Wed, 08 Jun 2016 14:01:49 -0400, Paul wrote:

wrote:
On Wed, 08 Jun 2016 17:40:37 +0100, "Kerr Mudd-John"
wrote:

or ask in alt.msdos.batch(.nt)
It's the "selective" bit that'd be tricky.
You know about Ctrl-click to unselect, (in File Explorer) right?
When you are going through 8000 files to select the few hundred you
want, that takes a long time.
Why not try a search on "iTunes alternatives"
and see if there is some software to do it
for you ? (I don't have a music collection,
so have no need of such a software here...)

Paul

So there is nothing in windows, that was what I was asking. Thanks
all.

OK, just for your amusement.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/downl....aspx?id=27163

ZunePackage.exe 270.5 MB

See ? They could make a package just
as bloated as iTunes :-)

Paul

[Default] On Tue, 07 Jun 2016 21:47:51 -0400, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general wrote:

I have a big directory on my server with many gigs of MP3 files. Since
my local machines all have access, it is simple to create play lists
the selectively pull out the songs I want on the clients. It gets far
more complicated to create a subset of these files on another machine.
(like the MP3 player in my car)
I can manually drag them over one at a time but that takes a while. I
was wondering if there was some kind of windows solution that would
use the play list (basically a text file with all of the file names)
to selectively copy them.
At this point I am using dBase to create a big batch file that is just
a buttload of "copy" commands. It works but it seems like MS should
have invented this wheel already.
I am just happy I didn't have to type out ~45kb of a batch file to
move 4g of music to a stick. dBase does it in a couple seconds.
Running the batch file takes a while but I don't have to do anything.

This might, or might not, appeal to you. I *think* you can use, in
CMD or better yet TCC/LE (free) to run a DIRectory command that will
output ONLY the file name, and I *think* you can pipe the output to be
input to an XXCopy command. XXCopy is a very much enhanced version
of XCopy and I'm 94% sure it accepts variables as input.

And I'm 98% sure it can read a file as input, so you could use DIR to
just write a file, and use XXCopy to read it and copy.

I think this would take 10 minutes to write but maybe hours to read
the XXCopy or TCC/LE manual.

One of the DOS newsgroups might be a help.

I haven't done this except this is simlar: Once I wanted to read every
item in a directory and write their data in sequence to file, but all
I could think was that each write would overlay the previous one.

On Wednesday, 8 June 2016 07:17:58 UTC+5:30, wrote:
I have a big directory on my server with many gigs of MP3 files. Since
my local machines all have access, it is simple to create play lists
the selectively pull out the songs I want on the clients. It gets far
more complicated to create a subset of these files on another machine.
(like the MP3 player in my car)
I can manually drag them over one at a time but that takes a while. I
was wondering if there was some kind of windows solution that would
use the play list (basically a text file with all of the file names)
to selectively copy them.
At this point I am using dBase to create a big batch file that is just
a buttload of "copy" commands. It works but it seems like MS should
have invented this wheel already.
I am just happy I didn't have to type out ~45kb of a batch file to
move 4g of music to a stick. dBase does it in a couple seconds.
Running the batch file takes a while but I don't have to do anything.

On Wednesday, 8 June 2016 07:17:58 UTC+5:30, wrote:
I have a big directory on my server with many gigs of MP3 files. Since
my local machines all have access, it is simple to create play lists
the selectively pull out the songs I want on the clients. It gets far
more complicated to create a subset of these files on another machine.
(like the MP3 player in my car)
I can manually drag them over one at a time but that takes a while. I
was wondering if there was some kind of windows solution that would
use the play list (basically a text file with all of the file names)
to selectively copy them.
At this point I am using dBase to create a big batch file that is just
a buttload of "copy" commands. It works but it seems like MS should
have invented this wheel already.
I am just happy I didn't have to type out ~45kb of a batch file to
move 4g of music to a stick. dBase does it in a couple seconds.
Running the batch file takes a while but I don't have to do anything.

He