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Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / May 2008Software To Catalog External Drive
I've been looking around for several hours for something to catalog contents of an external drive. What I want to do is create a list (text or Excel file) of artists, albums and track names from a digital file database ... based on the names of the folders and names of files inside the folders. I want to be able to print the list, not just have a program that will allow me to search it to locate what's on the disk. I've tried DiskCataloger, DiskLibrary and a couple more programs (I forget now what they were being I've been at this for several hours this morning) and I can't seem to find one that will create a simple alphabetized list. DiskLibrary would export the contents as "XML" file with icon for Illustrator (?) ... I did let Illustrator open but the text was just in a useless format for what I'm trying to accomplish. Nothing else would recognize the file. I've also searched google groups for newsgroup posts about something like this but have yet to come up with anything that has helped point me in the right direction. Is there some way with UNIX to get this type of list and narrow down to just what info I'm looking for? Or software that can do this? What is the easiest way to get a list like I've described? > What I want to do is create a list (text or Excel file) of artists, > albums and track names from a digital file database ... based on the > names of the folders and names of files inside the folders. Download TextWrangler from barebones.com Drag a folder into a new TextWrangler document window. Is that what you're after?  SignatureWoodworking links and more at http://www.woodenwabbits.com > Download TextWrangler from barebones.com Thanks much ... that did the trick perfectly! > > Download TextWrangler from barebones.com > > Thanks much ... that did the trick perfectly! Excellent! Thanks for reporting back. SignatureWoodworking links and more at http://www.woodenwabbits.com > I've been looking around for several hours for something to catalog > contents of an external drive. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > I want to be able to print the list, not just have a program that will > allow me to search it to locate what's on the disk. For this I use 'DiskTracker X 2.4' - a fabulous program for this kind of work. It can catalog any media - harddisk, CD, DVD, internal/external - doesn't matter, - and you can print out list of content. You can even expand the folders inside the catalog and get both creation and revision dates for each file/folder. - i've been using it since the very ver. 1.0 with System 7.1.3. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/11760 It's worth every cent! cheers, Erik Richard Signature~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rgds. Grüße, Mvh. Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC <mac-man_NOSP@M_stofanet.dk> <http://www.nisus.com> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Textprocessing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > I've been looking around for several hours for something to catalog > contents of an external drive. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > I want to be able to print the list, not just have a program that will > allow me to search it to locate what's on the disk. For this I use 'DiskTracker X 2.4' - a fabulous program for this kind of work. It can catalog any media - harddisk, CD, DVD, internal/external. - even invisible files can be catalogued. - The media doesn't matter, - and you can print out list of content. - AND - you can open a selected file directly from the catalog! You can even expand the folders inside the catalog and get both creation and revision dates for each file/folder. - i've been using it since the very ver. 1.0 with System 7.1.3. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/11760 It's worth every cent! cheers, Erik Richard Signature~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rgds. Grüße, Mvh. Erik Richard Sørensen, Member of ADC <mac-man_NOSP@M_stofanet.dk> <http://www.nisus.com> NisusWriter - The Future In Multilingual Textprocessing ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > I've been looking around for several hours for something to catalog > contents of an external drive. > > What I want to do is create a list (text or Excel file) of artists, > albums and track names from a digital file database ... based on the > names of the folders and names of files inside the folders. In iTunes, select the preference to NOT have songs copied into the iTunes Music folder when they're added to the iTunes Library; then drag the entire contents of your external drive (or at least the song- containing parts of it) into the iTunes Library. iTunes will then catalog in that Library all the songs on that drive (or at least, all the songs in formats that it recognizes). [I guess you could let them be copied also, and later delete them from the iTunes Music folder; but then you couldn't do any editing of the tags in the original files using iTunes.] There is then an iTunes command to Export or Print all these songs with all their ID3 tags from the iTunes Library into a tab-delimited text file, which can be opened as an Excel spreadsheet. All the ID3 tags are included -- you can't pick and choose -- so its a very wide spreadsheet; and you have delete a bunch of columns. But, you end up with what you want (except, if you want the Comments field, and the Comments are lengthy, they're apt to get truncated). ----------- P.S. -- The iTunes Library is, of course, not in any normal sense of the word a "library"; it's a **catalog** of a library (with this library usually being the iTunes Music folder and its contents). So, why did Apple chose to use this confusing and misleading terminology? Was there some useful purpose for doing this? Or some deliberately misleading purpose? Or were the design geeks at Apple just too illiterate to know this? > In iTunes ... I don't have my music in iTunes libraries. Just have them stored on external drive. I've found Text Wrangler is accomplishing what I wanted to do. Thanks for the input. > So, why did Apple chose to use this confusing and misleading > terminology? Was there some useful purpose for doing this? Or some > deliberately misleading purpose? Or were the design geeks at Apple just > too illiterate to know this? Okay, you've told us over and over how much you detest iTunes. We get it, we really do. At least your previous complaints and/or diatribes have been in context, though. When you start bringing up the subject of iTunes yourself, recommend that someone use it, and _then_ go on to complain about it, I think you've gone off the deep end. Signature<http://designsbymike.net/shop/mac.cgi> Mac and geek T-shirts & gifts <http://designsbymike.net/election.shtml> Election 2008 goods. <http://designsbymike.net/shop/prius.cgi> Prius shirts/bumper stickers <http://designsbymike.net/shop/greet.cgi> Holiday cards with attitude |
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