Batch file to play 3,000 songs.

Hello all. I'm new here so go easy.

 I'm putting together a junk computer to play MP3s. Lots of them. My intentions are to push the power button and have all the music in one directory play. Maybe 3,000 songs. Sounds simple.

1. Must start, play all and loop, with no monitor or keyboard after it's setup.
2. If a song (MP3) won't play because of an error, for whatever reason go to next song. Songs will be checked for errors but things happen.
3. Be able to be shut down and restarted without problems.

I haven't chosen an operating system yet. I would probably go with Win98 because it's smaller than Win2k or XP. I know Winamp and other programs allow playlists and that's a possibility. I do like a very small stand alone MP3 player called "Billy" http://www.sheepfriends.com/?page=billy This computer will be accessible through a wireless network connection.

A batch file could be used but I'm stumped on the "play all" and "error" part. Shutting down shouldn't be a problem as long as I "don't allow safe mode after bad shut down" in TweakIU.

This is an old AMD 300mHZ computer, 20GB HD with an amplified sound card. Any suggestions.

Oh yea, this computer will output to a homebrew one Watt AM transmitter to play oldies to the neighborhood on weekends. At present, I use a CD player capable of playing MP3s but the disks only hold around 225 songs, 6-8hrs.

-Mike Toon

Create a playlist with all your songs and save it somewhere on your hard drive. Create a batch file that opens that file and put the batch in startup. Windows Media Player automatically skips bad songs and it remembers if the repeat button was selected on last run and I imagine that the other players do as well.

Hmmmmmmmmm. How do you create the list?

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Hmmmmmmmmm. How do you create the list?

As contrex said, "up and up goes the post count"...... If you want to say something and raise your post count (which you shouldn't want to), please try to say something useful and contribute to this community; i.e. don't dig up old threads with questions that have no importance to the OP.

And as for creating the list, you can just select all the music, right-click and go Add to Playlist.

The problem is solved. I downloaded a free program that plays ALL music files in the directory AND all sub directories, randomally. http://www.shareup.com/OneClickPlay-download-2768.html

I put this in my Win98 startup directory and it plays all 3,000. Don't even need to have the monitor on. When I get done, I turn the power off and since I have that option checked not to run scandisk on a bad shut down.........there is no problems.

Thanks for the suggestions.

congrats!
I actually started a similar project with an old laptop. I've taken it apart and am transforming it into a digital picture frame. The plan is to use Zenwalk (Linux distro) and MythTV and MythGallery to display my pictures randomly from a predefined directory. It's starting to be a really fun project.

The plan is to use Zenwalk (Linux distro) and MythTV and MythGallery to display my pictures randomly from a predefined directory. It's starting to be a really fun project.

Sounds interesting. Any pictures yet?

I've got it all planned out, I just have to build the box to sit behind the picture frame. I had to ditch mythtv because the processor is too slow....  So I'm just using the slideshow program that came with zenwalk (gqslideshow). It doesn't have any transition effects, but still works pretty good.