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[flamereaper]

Ok so not sure about this being the right area to post but its the best i could think of for this topic.

Im working on something that will require a playlist in XML. now i have a giant text file listing all my songs (courtosy of gd ol' winamp) now i could just go through each song and add a <song name=""/> around each of the tracks. But this isnt really practicle for a playlist of over 30,000.

Does anyone know of a program, or a method that would allow me to generate an XML file that listed all of the songs in a folder for example?

Any help or sugestions would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance.


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[Demonslay]

Since my main language of choice is PHP, I would make a script that would read the directory, and then write it to an XML file.

Here's a quick mock-up I'll just write up real quick, untested mind you.

<?php
$path = 'C:/Documents and Settings/User/My Documents/My Music'; // Needs to be a complete path
$dir = opendir($path) or die("Unable to open '{$path}'"); // Open directory for reading

$files = array(); // Establish files array
while($file = readdir($dir)){ // Iterate the directory for files
if(substr($file, -3) == 'mp3') $files[] = $file; // If file has mp3 extension, add to $files array
}

closedir($dir); // Close directory

$fp = fopen('music.xml', 'wb'); // Open new file for writing (or create)
fwrite($fp, "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>\n"); // Start XML header for file

foreach($files as $file){ // Iterate the $files array
fwrite($fp, "<song name=\"{$file}\" />\n"); // Write each filename in XML format to the file
}

fclose($fp); // Close file
?>

Something like that run under your localhost once should do it for ya. Only thing is it can't read the actual name of the song, only the filename. However, with a little parsing, since your filenames are probably composed of 'Artist - Song Name' format, you could simply split it and use the name and artist as further information in your XML tags.

[flamereaper]

yea the file names are all sorted out as artist first. and im sure if there not i can find out how to sort that out.

Thanks for the help. One more question. would this code (or a slight edit) to this code allow for subfolders (for example music>artist>album>file.mp3)

if so that would be a great help. thanks alot.

[Demonslay]

There's when you get tricky and would need to create a recursive function that keeps calling itself when it encounters a new directory. I'll see if I can make a mock-up from the example I gave you above, but be careful with these. If seems to take a looooong time to process, it could be infinitely looping, which can suck your computer processing up until PHP reaches its time limit for execution (typically 60 seconds by default).

<?php
function get_music($path){
$dir = opendir($path) or die("Unable to open '{$path}'"); // Open directory for reading

while($file = readdir($dir)){ // Iterate the directory for files
if(is_dir($file)){ // If the file is actually a directory
get_music($file); // Have function call itself again with this directory
continue; // Continue with the looping and don't worry about checking for music
}
if(substr($file, -3) == 'mp3') $files[] = $file; // If file has mp3 extension, add to $files array
}
closedir($dir); // Close directory
}

$path = 'C:/Documents and Settings/User/My Documents/My Music'; // Needs to be a complete path
$files = array(); // Establish files array

get_music($path); // Run our recursive function with the $path set

$fp = fopen('music.xml', 'wb'); // Open new file for writing (or create)
fwrite($fp, "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>\n"); // Start XML header for file

foreach($files as $file){ // Iterate the $files array
$info = explode(' - ', $file); // An example of splitting the filename to find the artist/song
$artist = $info[0]; // Grab artist from first part of $info
$song = str_replace('.mp3', '', $info[1]); // Grab song from second part and get rid of extension
fwrite($fp, "<song file=\"{$file}\" artist=\"{$artist}\" song=\"{$song}\" />\n"); // Write each filename in XML format to the file
}

fclose($fp); // Close file
?>

As far as I can tell that should do the trick. Worse case scenario is the infinite loop bit.

[flamereaper]

Mkay cheers dude. youve been more than helpfull. Im sure the script will work, if not im sure a lil tweaking can stop any infinite loop that might occur.

Thanks again.