Copying Winamp's playlist songs to any other folder for copying to CD etc

  • Article

Well, to begin with... let me tell you my problem which led me to create this very simple application. Actually, I have quite a lot of songs on my Hard Drives (who doesn't ;o) ???) and used to create organized playlists for all those songs littered across my hard-drive partitions. Now one fine day, I wanted to copy songs in my different playlists and burn CDs so that I could mark them accordingly. Yeah.... very simple requirement, but when I thought of all those thousands of files needed to be copied manually, I started getting goosebumps and wrote this Application for a simple objective...

"Parse my m3u files (Winamp Playlists) and copy all the MP3s to any folder which I specify, so that I could burn a CD based on my Playlist!"

Okay, lets get started.
1) Create a blank Project in VB6 and delete the Form1.vb
2) Create a new text file with an name "frmMain.frm" in the Folder where you want to save your project.
3) Now, open the frmMain.frm in Notepad, paste the following code, save the file and add this form in your VB Project.
4) The logic to parsed might not be perfect but works well for me. I was able to see all the files in the playlist collected at the destination folder. I have fixed the code for some of the files which were located in "My Documents" folder. For some reason Winamp does not adds "C:\" to the files in the playlist. Open any *.M3U file in Notepad and you will come to know about it.
5) Let me know if you need any help.

VERSION 5.00
Begin VB.Form frmMain
Caption = "Winamp Playlist Copier"
ClientHeight = 8550
ClientLeft = 60
ClientTop = 450
ClientWidth = 9810
LinkTopic = "Form1"
LockControls = -1 'True
ScaleHeight = 8550
ScaleWidth = 9810
StartUpPosition = 3 'Windows Default
Begin VB.TextBox txtOutPut
Height = 3345
Left = 180
Locked = -1 'True
MultiLine = -1 'True
ScrollBars = 3 'Both
TabIndex = 10
Top = 5130
Width = 9465
End
Begin VB.CommandButton cmdTo
Caption = "Select &Destination"
Height = 435
Left = 8100
TabIndex = 9
Top = 660
Width = 1545
End
Begin VB.CommandButton cmdPlayList
Caption = "&Select Playlist"
Height = 435
Left = 8100
TabIndex = 8
Top = 150
Width = 1545
End
Begin VB.FileListBox File1
Height = 4185
Left = 4740
TabIndex = 7
Top = 120
Width = 3255
End
Begin VB.DirListBox Dir1
Height = 3690
Left = 930
TabIndex = 6
Top = 570
Width = 3705
End
Begin VB.DriveListBox Drive1
Height = 315
Left = 930
TabIndex = 5
Top = 120
Width = 3735
End
Begin VB.CommandButton cmdCopy
Caption = "&Copy MP3s"
Height = 435
Left = 8100
TabIndex = 4
Top = 1170
Width = 1545
End
Begin VB.TextBox txtTo
Height = 345
Left = 900
Locked = -1 'True
TabIndex = 3
Top = 4740
Width = 8715
End
Begin VB.TextBox txtFrom
Height = 345
Left = 900
Locked = -1 'True
TabIndex = 0
Top = 4350
Width = 8685
End
Begin VB.Label Label2
Alignment = 1 'Right Justify
Caption = "To"
Height = 225
Left = 150
TabIndex = 2
Top = 4740
Width = 525
End
Begin VB.Label lblPlaylist
Alignment = 1 'Right Justify
Caption = "Playlist"
Height = 225
Left = 150
TabIndex = 1
Top = 4410
Width = 525
End
End
Attribute VB_Name = "frmMain"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = False

Private Sub cmdCopy_Click()

Dim LineFromFile As String
Dim CommandLine As String
Dim NumberOfFiles As Integer

On Error GoTo ErrorHandler

If Trim(txtFrom.Text) = "" Then
MsgBox "Please select a Playlist from the list...", vbCritical, "Error"
Exit Sub
End If
NumberOfFiles = 0
txtOutPut.Text = ""
Open txtFrom.Text For Input As #1
While Not EOF(1)
Line Input #1, LineFromFile
If Mid(LineFromFile, 1, 9) = "Documents" Then
LineFromFile = "C:\" + LineFromFile
End If
If Mid(LineFromFile, 2, 1) = ":" Then
CommandLine = "Xcopy " + Chr(34) + LineFromFile + Chr(34) + " " + Chr(34) + txtTo.Text + Chr(34)
txtOutPut = txtOutPut + vbCrLf + CommandLine
Shell CommandLine, vbHide
NumberOfFiles = NumberOfFiles + 1
DoEvents
End If
Wend
Close #1
MsgBox NumberOfFiles & " Files Copied Successfully"
Exit Sub
ErrorHandler:
MsgBox Err.Description, vbCritical, "Error"
End Sub

Private Sub cmdPlayList_Click()

txtFrom.Text = File1.Path + "\" + File1.FileName
End Sub

Private Sub cmdTo_Click()

txtTo.Text = File1.Path
End Sub

Private Sub Dir1_Change()

File1.Path = Dir1.Path
End Sub

Private Sub Drive1_Change()

Dir1.Path = Drive1.Drive
End Sub