How to Save a Printable List of Your Songs in Windows Media Player

Cleaning Up Your List with Find and Replace

1. Copy the contents of your Notepad document. The easiest way to do this is by holding down Ctrl and tapping A to select everything in Notepad, then holding down Ctrl and tapping C.

2. Open a new Microsoft Word document. If you don't have MS Word installed on your computer, you can use Google Docs' free version of Word.

   1. Depending on your version of Word, you may have to click "Blank Document" to open a new document.

3. Paste your Notepad contents into Word. Do this by holding down Ctrl, then tapping V.

4. Familiarize yourself with MS Word's "Find and Replace" feature. Holding down Ctrl and tapping H will activate this feature; you can then add text you wish to find to the "Find what" field and add the replacement text to the "Replace with" field. You can use this feature to remove the HTML tags from your song list, making it much easier to read.

5. Copy the media tags and destination folder information. To do this, highlight the "Ctrl + C. Make sure you highlight the line all the way up to and including the "" before an artist's name.

6. Open the "Find and Replace" feature. Make sure your mouse cursor is set at the beginning of your document to ensure that the Find and Replace feature formats your entire document.

7. Paste the media tag into the "Find" field. You can just add a space (Space) to the "Replace" field.

8. Click "Replace All". If Word asks you for permission to search from the beginning of the document, click "Yes".

   1. You'll need to repeat this process a few times if your sections of your music are in separate directories.

9. Delete the file tags. File tags you'll see are .mp3, .mp4, .wav, and so on; these are at the end of your directory lines. Delete them by copying and pasting the ".[file type]"/>" text from the end of a directory line into the "Find" field and placing a space in the "Replace" field of Find and Replace.

   1. You'll need to repeat this process a few times if your files aren't all in one format.
   2. You should also consider replacing the "" separations with a double space. Doing so will separate your artist names, albums, and song names into distinct columns.

10. Delete the HTML text at the beginning and end of your list. You'll see a set of HTML tags before the first artist's name appears at the beginning of the article; similarly, there is a set of HTML tags at the end. Select these and tap Delete to get rid of them. These should be the last chunks of non-plaintext writing.

11. Review your list. Now you can print your library list in a readable format!