Windows er...folder counter-thingy....anyone?

my music collection is filed by artist, and then in the artist directory, the albums. IS there an app which will count the number of albums i have? there are too many to count by hand...

 

not that i know of, it cant be too hard though... i managed to count mine (currently 587) did take a while, i would recommened a piece of paper and pencil.

 

er...useful



i think i've got at least that in artists alone...

 

Open up a shell, navigate to your music folder/drive and do: "dir > output.txt" [without quotes], that will give you a text output [called output.txt, you can call it whatever you want] of all the folders in that drive/folder. So this will give you all the artist folders.

Now if you do a "dir /s > output.txt" [without quotes], this will give you a listing of every directory in the folder/drive (and all the files in each dir.) At the very bottom of the file, it shows the total number of files and total number of directories.

 

thanks...is there a way of excluding certain folders? and the subfolders inside of some of the albums, like Disc1 and disc 2?

 

It gets a bit difficult if you want to exclude some subdirectories and include others really.

 

Having got the text file you can open it in Excel and do various sorts to get rid of dross.