How do I export artist/album list to text file? iTunes 11, Win7.64bit

As far as I can tell, it works the same in iTunes 11 on Win7 as it did on older releases.

If you don't see your sidebar, use View > Show Sidebar to enable it. Then right-click the name of the playlist (or "Music" if you want the whole library) and choose Export....

When the dialog appears, set "Save As Type" to "Text Files."

Celph,

My recollection is that the Save to Text option always has given a "huge mess," i.e. was not formatted, and really is intended for machine read applications, not human ones.

To get a neater list, how about using the Print option in the File menu. Choose "Song listing," and direct the output to a PDF.

I know this topic has been marked as solved, however, I would like to add for others that might read this in the future that the seemingly mess of a text file that gets exported when you do a "Save As Type" to "Text Files" method gets cleaned up rather nice if you open it in Excel. It puts the album, artist, track name, etc... all in their own rows and columns. From that point you can keep or delete the fields you want in one swoop. Cheers.

Honix,

Cool! I just tried that with iTunes 11 and Excel 2010 and it worked fine.

The Text export from iTunes is tab-delimited, so you may have to do a step to tell that to Excel, after which you do get nice neat columns.

Thanks!

CelphTitled wrote:

Thank you for the help. In this case, I can create an "all Music" playlist and right click on that playlist. Once there, I see an option to "export" and I can create a .txt file. Once created, that file is not formatted at all. Its a huge mess.

It is a tab separated value txt fil (as ed noted).

It has all the fields but simply delete the columns you don't want.

I haven't tried in iTunes 11, but you used to be able to show only the columns you want in a playlist then select all & copy then past into a spreadsheet with only the showing columns info.

Chris CA wrote:

I haven't tried in iTunes 11, but you used to be able to show only the columns you want in a playlist then select all & copy then past into a spreadsheet with only the showing columns info.

Chris, That still works on playlists, but bombs if you try to do the whole library.