Individually put some frequently listened music files in a folder and then play them, this is the conventional way of playing songs on your hard disk. But if these music files distributes in multiple folders, then it needs us to enter into these directories to play. Moreover, in this playing process, it is always impossible to play according to the sequences of track title, file bit rate (i.e. the quality of music files), album title and so on. This brings user a lot of inconvenience in deed...

With the help of Mp3ListShellEx, this problem can be easily solved. Mp3ListShellEx is actually an extension plugin for Windows Explorer, with which you can generate a universal MP3 playlist suitable for different music players in short order, just by right clicking the folder.

Mp3ListShellEx supports most popular playlist formats, including wpl, b4s, m3u, pls (all of which can be recognized by all mp3/media players), also can be output for HTM, XML, CSV and XLS file formats.

Meanwhile, the MP3 list created by Mp3ListShellEx contains more than twenty details such as ID3v1.1 tags, MPEG frame information and file properties. What is important is that both playlist and MP3 list can be sorted by any of these details.

System Requirements

Mp3ListShellEx requires Visual C run-time and Visual Basic run-time files (Windows 2K/Me/XP or higher editions already have them). Some users may also need to install "Microsoft Windows Common Controls" - COMCTL32.OCX. It can be downloaded from here.

How to register the 'comctl32.ocx' file

When running Mp3ListShellEx first time, you maybe receive an error message as bellow:
Component 'Comctl32.ocx' or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid
And the solution as below:
  1. Download and copy the 'comctl32.ocx' file into "C:\Windows\System32\"
  2. Run CMD (Command Prompt) as administrator (can be called by "Alt + X" under Win8)
  3. Type "regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\comctl32.ocx" and enter
  4. All done!

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