Managing mp3s to play in car ?

[Andy100]

This is the problem:

I use my pocket PC (IPAQ2210) to play my mp3s in the car. I have a 256mb
card so i can fit around 80 songs on. Problem is, one week i might like
those songs, the next week i might want a different set of songs on. The
week after that i might want to put the ones i had on 2 weeks ago back on.

Is there a program which will act like an 'explorer' (with an mp3 player)
with which i can 'mark' week 1's files with a 1 in someway (embedded
marking) so that if i decide along the line i want to put all songs marked
with a '1' back onto my CF card, i can ?

I don't want to have to mess with tag editing, just mark files with letters,
numbers or colours so that i can call them back up again and export them
back to my memory card.

Hard to explain, hope someone knows what i'm on about !


Cheers
Andy

 

[dadiOH]

I don't want to have to mess with tag editing, just mark files with
letters, numbers or colours so that i can call them back up again
and export them back to my memory card.

Hard to explain, hope someone knows what i'm on about !

Not quite but it sounds like renaming the files with a given number as a
preface would do what you want. Most any file renamer would do that,
CKRename for one...
http://www.musicsucks.com/CKSoft/index.htm

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[Dave Smey]

Here is my approach to managing such things...

1) I make WinAmp playlists with WenSoft Music Library (shareware).
http://www.wensoftware.com/

2) I wrote a simple Windows app that reads a playlist and copies all of the
files into a new directory off c:/temp. It also adds a numbered prefix to
the filenames, so that the playlist will stay in order.

3) Burn all the files in the new directory to CD, export them to my MP3
player, or whatever.

4) Delete the temp directory.

I've slapped my program for #2 up at
www.davesmey.org/programs/collect.zip
Please note that it was written for personal use only and cannot even change
the target directory location.

I wonder what real utilities out there are useful for manipulating files
from a list.

 

[Andy100]

Cheers, i'll give both ideas a go.

Thanks Dave & DadiOH
Andy

 

[charles]

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 18:15:07 GMT, "Dave Smey"

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There is a small Winamp plugin - gen-yar you can get at
<http://www.snapfiles.com/get/genyar.html> which will copy all the files
in your current winamp playlist to a directory you choose.

Should shorten your procedure by a few steps.