Is it just me? (Smart View/Playlist question).

This will bring up all the .cue files, then you can simply look across the the column showing you which folders they are in and - assuming you've tagged and labelled everything correctly - that's the name of the album.

I've probably had too many coffees today but, shouldn't there be some kind of dos command I could use here, and whatever command it was that displays the results as a list? That would do for now...

this shouldn't be this hard, surely!? Still waiting for the completely obvious to hit me here...

it actually builds HTML file that lists all the folders and all sub sub sub and finally all files in a folder.

you can get this "directory lister", select your music folder, generate its contents as a HTML file, then save it, open it (it does not let you copy the preview of the HTML)...

so you open this HTML, copy/paste text into notepad/word, then read it.

as you read, you delete all lines, EXCEPT the names of the folders that do not contain .cue file.

this description might seem complicated, but it really takes me 2 minutes to do this kind of operation. this is the only way i found.

Do all of this in a Command Prompt (dos box) from the directory where all your music folders are:

1. first list all the folders and pipe them to a text file

dir/b/s/ad > dir1.txt

2. then list all the .cue files and pipe them to a second text file

dir/b/s *.cue > dir2.txt

3. then join both text files

copy dir1.txt+dir2.txt dirboth.txt

4. then sort the lines in that text file (can be done in word or excel too, but we're in dos now, so we'll continue :-) )

sort dirboth.txt > dirsorted.txt

RESULT in dirsorted.txt:
the folders that appear only once don't have any cue files
the folders that appear more than once have one/more cue files

example (albums 1 and 3 don't have .cue files here) :

c:\music\album1\
c:\music\album2\
c:\music\album2\album2.cue
c:\music\album3\
c:\music\album4\
c:\music\album4\album4a.cue
c:\music\album4\album4b.cue

(this is where someone replies there's another dos command that does all of this in one line)

Thanks so much!

step 1) c/o nique & directory finder
step 2) c/o StanM & dos

= all is well & organised and purchases/not yet purchased all accounted for, i.e. - holy shit I still didn't get rid of that shitty Loose Fur album? ;) v.happy & would never have got this far on my own. Thanks again!