Printing Out Song Lists

Want a quick, easy way to create a printable list of songs from your collection? It's easy with BeOS! You can do it by attribute. Just follow these simple instructions.

1. Run Terminal (it's in your apps folder)
2. Paste in the following line...

query "((Audio:Comment=="*Song"))" > /boot/home/Desktop/SongList.txt

3. Alter the word Song to whatever Comment criteria you'd prefer.
4. If you want to search by a different attribute than Comment, change that to what you want, such as Genre. Make sure you use upper and lower case accurately.
5. Hit Enter

A search results file in text format named "SongList.txt" will now be on your desktop, ready to print directly, e-mail out, or transfer to another computer for printout.

Hint: In Windows, Wordpad handles BeOS text files just fine. So does the free, highly-recommended program, EditPad.

1. Want to make the process simpler for the future? Create a little two-line script for yourself! While in BeOS, use StyledEdit (found in your apps folder) to create a text file containing the following two lines...

#!/bin/sh
query "((Audio:Comment=="*Song"))" > /boot/home/Desktop/SongList.txt

2. Save it as a file with a name such as GetSongs.sh and put it in your /boot/home/config/bin folder
3. Now, whenever you like, you can generate a fresh list. From Terminal, just type-in GetSongs.sh and hit Enter, and your script will run and generate your list for you.

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