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Hi guys, Maybe a relatively simple one? I have a bunch of audio files in a folder than are all labelled in the same way: ARTIST - ALBUM - TRACK.ape a few examples from the folder... c:\test\JOHNSMITH - The best of John Smith - Smithy.ape c:\test\JOHNSMITH - The best of John Smith - Smithingtonape c:...

Works a charm! Thanks Foxi

Thanks guys... I will be referring to the data within a loop.. I have the following code that works for me but dosnt record the special characters... :ENCODE_APE echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion cls echo. echo Now encoding... echo. if exist %DRIVE%\ojw\logs\ENCODE_LIST.TXT (del /q %DRIVE%\oj...

That seems to have done it - The only issue i have is that for some reasen it dosn't capture special characters... so i need a way of ignoring them prior to capturing this data for example running the command i get: c:\OJW\COMPLETED_ALBUM\Test Album\Accuser - Burn when i should get: c:\OJW\COMPLETED...

I'll try and work it now ... Thanks foxi..

Thanks - I am v.interested... but not as gifted as some of you guys with understanding the exact science behind every command.... I get the gist of whats going on and in most cases its a small mistake in a command that trips me up... I think it takes time to really understand what's going on and onl...

Hi squashman - The premise is v.similar but i've never removed the file extension from the search which is the key requirement - There is also nothing within the help for dir /? that is obvious that removes the extension.
Foxi - Awesome! Works a treat as always! Thanks!

Hi guys, another connundrum... Im trying to perform the following command at the prompt: dir /s /b c:\ojw\completed_album\*.wav But want to hide the .wav in the results and output to a text file... It seems it's doable... m but i'll be damned if i can get the working command! Given the command dir /...

I'll try it when i get home tonight!

Thanks Foxi...

Lol ... I'm 99% of the way there... although im sure this could be a LOT cleaner! @echo off setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion dir /s /b c:\ojw\temp\ape\*.wav >c:\ojw\logs\APE_fullpath.txt dir /s /b c:\ojw\temp\ape\*.cue >c:\ojw\logs\APE_cuefullpath.txt dir /b c:\ojw\temp\ape >c:\ojw\logs\APE_albumfold...

Hi guys, In a similar vein to a previous query that i had i've got a situation where i need to read information from 3 files to build a command to be run... The three files contain pathnames on different lines and i simply need a loop to call the whole line of data from each of the files and echo it...

Sure thing - Will do.

Thanks again..

Stay posted, im sure i'll hit another conundrum in a day or so!

That is beautifully simpler!

Just stuck that in and it works like a charm! Thanks so much guys!

I'm sure it's not the last hurdle but thanks so much or the help on this!

Sure. At this stage in the batch two DIR's are run and output to two files DIR /B /S c:\OJW\TEMP\APE\*.ape >>c:\OJW\LOGS\MONKEYSPATH1.TXT DIR /B c:\OJW\TEMP\APE >>c:\OJW\LOGS\MONKEYSPATH2.TXT MONKEYSPATH1.TXT = Is a list of the FULL pathnames to the files that will be processed by monkeys audio deco...

Sorry my batch isnt that strong yet! I've just worked it into my code and can see where i went wrong... its now outputting the data to screen... Any idea how i could refer to the variables when there needed within the command i plan on using in the post above? Eg. c:\tools\decompress.exe %var1% c:\c...