Can I print the titles of all the songs in my Windows Media Player library?

Factual Questions
1

And, if yes, how?

Thanks.

2

Do you keep all your music files in one folder? If so, this might be a Windows question, not a WMP question. Not that I know the answer, but that might be the first step for someone else to figure it out.

3

I have a program I downloaded called " JDirPrinter.exe " that I use all the time. It was free, as far as I know it still is…do a Google on JDirPrinter.
You can select the directory you want to print and the characteristics you want to record.

4

Many thanks! I’ll check it out.

5

If you’ve edited any track info in WMP, it’s not stored as part of the .mp3, so you’d be printing what was originally in there.

6

Just in case nothing works out, you could save the playlist in a .m3u format and then open it in Winamp. You can then go to Misc> Misc > Generate HTML Playlist and then print it out from IE or Firefox.

7

Here’s some Windows Script Host code to do it. Paste this into a text file called “listsongs.js” and then run “cscript //nologo listsongs.js” from the command line. If you want to save the list, you can run “cscript //nologo listsongs.js > my_song_list.txt”.



var wmp = WScript.CreateObject("WMPlayer.OCX.7");
if(wmp)
{
    var collection = wmp.MediaCollection;
    
    if(collection)
    {
        var allsongs = collection.getByAttribute("MediaType", "audio");
        if(allsongs)
        {
            for(var i=0; i<allsongs.count; i++)
            {
                var item = allsongs.item(i);
                var album = item.getItemInfo("album");
                var artist = item.getItemInfo("artist");

                if(album && artist)
                    WScript.Echo(item.name + " (from \"" + album + "\" by " + artist + ")");
                else if(artist)
                    WScript.Echo(item.name + " (by " + artist + ")");
                else
                    WScript.Echo(item.name);
            }
        }
    }
}
else
{
    WScript.Echo("Error accessing WMP database.");
}
8

Oh, and if you really do just want the titles, change this:



                if(album && artist)
                    WScript.Echo(item.name + " (from \"" + album + "\" by " + artist + ")");
                else if(artist)
                    WScript.Echo(item.name + " (by " + artist + ")");
                else
                    WScript.Echo(item.name);

to this:



                WScript.Echo(item.name);

…I just thought it was nicer to print out the album and artist if it was available.