Hey everyone,
I use various pieces of software (Winamp, foobar2000) to play music but I've
settled primarily on iTunes.
I *never* rip music with iTunes because of DCMA crap, so I use CDEX which is
good about tucking stuff into folders organized by artist/album. I also
download a lot of podcasts and mixes, which I organize in a foldering system
by month and/or site. I might do something like this:
/mp3
/podcast
/siteApodcasts
/siteBpodcasts
/mixes
/March-2006
/Feb-2006
/Jan-2006
and so on. You get the idea.
Anyway, I wanted to have a way to create playlists based on the folder
structure of my filesystem so I wrote a script. I started using the script
quite often and created a small app that did the same thing as the script.
A few friends used it and thought it was useful, so I thought I'd clean it
up a little and see if it was useful to anyone else.
It's hella ugly (written in VB6, Windows only) but a goal since I use
multiple machines was to make it run without installation. Hence the spartan
interface. I thought about having it save "favorite" folders and so on but
decided against it since I didn't want to create unnecessary files or put
stuff in the registry. I also have a "donate" option on the page - if you
think it's worth it you can but to be honest, I'd be honored if you even
found the tool useful and just emailed me to say so.
So download it if you like. Maybe you'll find it useful, maybe you're a
better programmer than I am and you'll make an even better tool leveraging
the same idea. Maybe you know of a better tool that does the same thing in
which case you'll email me and let me know.
It's at:
http://www.t3rse.com/builder
David