hi. first of all I'll say I'm completely ignorant at programming and stuff.. but I'm trying to do a tiny batch file to help me with my music collection. So, what I want is to create a text file with the name of each .mp3 song inside a folder. I've written this: FOR %%A in (*.mp3) do ECHO 2>%%A.txt ok, and it works, but I get a list of files like this: title1.mp3.txt title2.mp3.txt title3.mp3.txt and what I want is to remove the mp3 part: title1.txt title2.txt and so on I don't know if this is hard of easy to do, but I can't figure it out. I've tried with the rename command, and I've even found a way of removing a number of characters IN FRONT of a file name, but not at the end.. anyway, if someone can help, I'd really appreciate it thanks in advance :)

try this @echo off if exist mp3s.txt del mp3s.txt for %%x in (*.mp3) do echo %%x >>mp3s.txt

@echo off for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%A in ('dir *.mp3 /b') do ( echo %%A >> %%~nA.txt ) ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

wow! that was quick. thanks a lot both of you :) Mechanix2Go that works! I already tried with tokens and delims, but didnt find the right %%~nA variable. Now curosity has grown on me and I'll get learning a bit more about batch files. Thanks again! :D ps. edman747 I tried yours also. What it does is create a text file with the file names in it. Probably you misunderstood my post. thanks for replying anyway :)

oops, I misunderstood what you wanted. this will make a list of *.mp3 filenames then change the filename extension to *.txt example directory has two mp3's: mysong1.mp3 mysong2.mp3 filenames.txt will contain mysong1.txt mysong2.txt @echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion if exist filenames.txt del filenames.txt for %%x in (*.mp3) do echo %%x >>filenames.txt for /f "tokens=* delims=" %%a in (filenames.txt) do ( set txtline=%%a set txtline=!txtline:mp3=txt! echo !txtline!>>tmp.txt) del filename.txt & ren tmp.txt filenames.txt endlocal