{"id":636,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=636"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"cdburner-export-tracklists-in-plain-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=636","title":{"rendered":"CDBurner: Export tracklists in plain text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After creating a CDBurner project file, you may want to print a track list &#8212; say, for an audio CD jewel case cover. CDBurner does not offer a text export option, but you can jimmy the text strings out of the project file manually with a little careful work in Terminal, by using the <code>strings<\/code> command.<br \/>\n<code>strings<\/code> examines binary files and sends all text strings buried within to stdout. Because there are more strings in a Burner project file than just the paths to the tracks, you&#8217;ll have to do some footwork to strip the results down to just what you want.<br \/>\nLet&#8217;s say you&#8217;ve got a CDBurner project file called &#8222;Cornbread.&#8220; Open a Terminal in the directory where Cornbread lives, and type (or paste):<\/p>\n<pre> strings Cornbread | grep -A1 ^path | sed s@path.*@@g | sed s@--@@g | sed s@\/.*\/@@g > ~\/cornbread <\/pre>\n<p>This will output a text file called &#8222;cornbread&#8220; in your home folder. There are probably much better ways to go about this. If you have a better grep\/sed string to accomplish the same job, please submit it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After creating a CDBurner project file, you may want to print a track list &#8212; say, for an audio CD jewel case cover. CDBurner does not offer a text export option, but you can jimmy the text strings out of the project file manually with a little careful work in Terminal, by using the strings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-applications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}