Have you ever wanted to fill in one of those boxes on MySpace with all of the music you listen to, or simply show off your MP3 collection to a friend without screenshotting? I wanted to list all of the artists in my MP3 folder today, so I did a little bit of exploring with my good friend command prompt, and after about 30 seconds, came up with the following solution:

First you’ll need to navigate command prompt the directory you want to list. If this is on the C:\ drive then you can simply type something along the lines of

cd C:\folder\folder\folder\folder

and hit return. You might need to do it one folder at a time, I don’t know. If the directory is on a different drive, simply type

#:\

and hit return, and then the above. Once you have navigated to the folder on your drive (which was E:\Audio\Music\ for me), simply type the following:

dir /b > C:\list.txt

and hit return. Open up your C:\ drive, there should be a text file called “list”. Open it, and with any luck it will have given you a basic listing of the files and folders in the directory you were in.