Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Creating an M3U playlist using bat file

The other day i've posted the content on how to create a bat file and to create an m3u file. Now the harder part in this is that you have to create the entire file and then create a bat file. Now to avoid this i use a test bat file which can create the playlist of the songs present in a folder automatically whenever it is invoked.
 To use this create a bat file named playlist.bat ( how to create a bat file)


 To create this:

1) Goto start--> run
2) type notepad
3)type  dir/b>playlist.m3u in the notepad
4) save it as playlist.bat
5) Now place this bat file in the folder where you want to create the playlist of the music files and double click the bat file. This will generate the playlist
6) Now use this file to listen to the entire list of the music files that you want to hear.


Note: The final playlist that we have created should be in the same folder as that of the parent folder.

How to copy Multiple Files/Folder names in bulk to Notepad file

 Reading one of this blog the other day i stumbled onto this title: “How to copy Multiple Files/Folder names in bulk to Notepad file“. I remember my self wanting to write a small app that would do that exact thing because i needed it a couple of times. At that time i decided not to waste any time on it since i thought that no one would need it actualy. But reading this post i was convinced i should write it since it could be usefull. It took me about an hour and here is what i came up with.

create a bat file in the folder u want list
for eg: if u want to take the list of a folder called
test than go to the folder test and inside the folder test create a bat files called test
Than in the bat file type dir /b >list.txt and save than double click. It will automatically generate the name..


Note: To create a bat file
1. Click Start
2. Click Run
3. Type: notepad and press enter.
After that in the notepad u write what ever u want to write in the bat files.. to generate automatic list type dir /b >list.txt
4.Go to File, Click Save as And save it as test.bat
5. Thats done so double click the bat file..


You can use this list to create an m3u file to play a group of songs. This is the procedure to create an m3u file:
  1. Click Start, point to Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Notepad.
  2. Create a text file that includes the full path to the files you want to include.
  3. On the File menu, click Save. Save the file with one of the following extensions, based on the types of files included.
    • For files of type .wav, .mp3, .mpg, or .mpeg, use the extension .m3u.
    • For files of type .asf, use the extension .asx.
For example, to sequentially play the Chord.wav, Ding.wav, and Chimes.wav files, include the following lines:
c:\windows\media\chord.wav
c:\windows\media\ding.wav
c:\windows\media\chimes.wav
Save this file as Filename.m3u, where Filename is the name you want to use for the file. When you double-click this file or open it in Windows Media Player, it plays the files in order from the top of the file to the bottom.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Blaze - Must Have Free Application Launcher With Intelligent Desktop Automation Features

Blaze is an innovative utility designed to automate most of the unique recurrent tasks that arise from everyday usage. Such tasks can be launching applications, making small calculations, sending emails, inserting recurrent excerpts of text or even renaming files!
With Blaze, you don't have to worry about the start menu items or desktop shortcuts. With a few keystrokes things just happen! Moreover, you don't have to be afraid of repetitive anymore!
How is Blaze different from any other Application Launcher?
Blaze is not a common application launcher. It's true that it indexes all your applications and also has the ability to browse the web and your file system, and so on. It's also true that it accepts text commands just like the others. However, Blaze has de ability to bear with typos and, therefore, you don't have to be so careful while typing a command.
Firefox Typo
Nonetheless, on what Blaze really stands out is automating recurrent tasks. Blaze is continuously monitoring your activity and is aware of what you are doing. Whenever you are doing a repetitive task, he will have a suggestion for you that you can accept or just ignore. Accepting this suggestion will make Blaze fulfill the remainder of the task in your place.
So... What can Blaze do for me?
For instance, imagine that you took around fifty photos on a summer party. You digital camera, by default, assigns weird names to those photos and you really want to give them meaningful names. How would you achieve such a goal?
  1. Spend 5 minutes doing it by hand...
  2. Spend more than 5 minutes learning how to use a dedicated tool.
  3. Do it in 20 seconds with Blaze.
With Blaze, you just have to rename the first three photos on the folder and Blaze will detect what you are doing. The suggestion would be the following:
Firefox Typo



 The application is still under active development and I wish more intelligent features gets added soon, I would suggest integration of social-networking features like twitter into the application - you can read and download about Blaze here, I would also strongly suggest users to read the Quick Start Guide for a smooth operation.

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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Transfer Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer Favorites Password And Browsing History To Google Chrome

Trouble:

With Google Chrome getting faster and more stable with newer versions, many of my friends are moving to Google Chrome from Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer.

google-chrome-logo

This article is helpful to all those people who want to move to Google Chrome but they have all their favorites and saved passwords in Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer. In this article I am going to share a convenient way to import all your Browsing History, Saved Passwords, Favorites and Search Engine settings to Google Chrome.

Open the Google Chrome and Click on the Import Bookmarks & Settings option.

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This will open a Import Data Window like the one below:

import-data-to-google-chrome

Select the Browser, that is, Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. Make sure that the Firefox or IE is not running at that moment. Press the Import button. That is it, now you have all your Favorites and Passwords imported to Google Chrome.

Thursday, September 3, 2009

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