Supported Formats
Of course, you can use the Filelist Creator to create lists of all types of files - regardless of the format of the files, you can, for example, generate lists with file names, file sizes, file dates, checksums or information about the file path, the data carrier or general file attributes.
In addition, the Filelist Creator also supports reading out of additional format-specific information from files of certain types. You can find them on this page, divided into the following categories:
In addition to the file formats that can be read out by the Filelist Creator for creating file lists, the program also supports several file formats for exporting your file list. The supported storage formats can be found in the section Export Formats.
Audio Files
The Filelist Creator can read and list audio tags and information such as artist, title, album, track, disc number, genre, year, length, comment, bit rate, sample rate and channels from the following audio file formats:
MP3 | MPEG Audio Layer 3 |
MP2 | MPEG Audio Layer 2 |
FLAC | Free Lossless Audio Codec |
M4A, M4B | MPEG-4 Audio, MPEG-4 Audio Book |
AAC | Advanced Audio Coding, Audio Data Transport Stream (ADTS) |
AC3 | Dolby Digital ATSC A/52 Audio Codec 3 |
WAV, WAVE | Waveform Audio File Format |
WMA | Windows Media Audio |
OGG, OGA | OGG Vorbis Audio |
OPUS | Opus Audio |
APE | Monkey's Audio |
RA | RealMedia Audio, RealAudio |
BWF | Broadcast Wave Format |
WV | WavePack |
SPX, SPEEX | Speex Bitstream |
Video Files
For video files, the Filelist Creator can add the play length, width, height, aspect ratio, bitrate and frames per second (FPS) to your file list. The following video file formats are currently supported:
AVI | Audio Video Interleave, including OpenDML Extension |
MP4, M4V | MPEG-4 Video |
MKV | Matroska Multimedia Container |
WEBM | WebM |
FLV, F4V | Flash Video |
3GP, 3G2 | Third Generation Partnership Project |
DIVX | DivX Media Format |
MOV, QT | Quick Time Movie |
RM, RV, RMVB | RealMedia Video, RealVideo |
WMV | Windows Media Video |
Images
With the Filelist Creator you can list the width, the height, the aspect ratio, the horizontal and vertical resolution, the number of images contained in the image (e.g. for icons, GIFs, TIFFs or multi-page JPM files) as well as the color space and color depth (bit depth) of the following image file types:
PNG | Portable Network Graphics |
JPEG, JPG, JPE | Joint Photographic Experts Group Image |
JFIF, JIF | JPEG File Interchange Format |
JNG | JPEG Network Graphics |
MNG | Multiple Image Network Graphics |
GIF | Graphics Interchange Format |
TIFF | Tagged Image File Format |
BMP | Bitmap |
DIP | Device independent Bitmap |
ICO | Windows Icon |
CUR | Windows Cursor |
ICNS | Apple Icon Image |
XBM | X BitMap (X Window System) |
XPM | X PixMap (X Window System, XPM1, XMP2, XMP3) |
WEBP | WebP Formate VP8_ (Simple Lossy), VP8L (Simple Lossless) and VP8X (Extended) |
HEIF, HEIC | High Efficiency Image File Format |
AVIF | AV1 Image File Format |
TGA | Truevision TARGA Advanced Raster Graphics Adapter |
J2K, JP2, JPG2 | JPEG 2000 - Part 1: Core Coding System (Base Still Image Format) |
JPX, JPF | JPEG 2000 - Part 2: Extensions (Extended Still Image Format) |
JPM | JPEG 2000 - Part 6: Compound Image File Format (Compound Image Format) |
PSD, PDD | Photoshop |
PBM | Portable Bitmap |
PGM | Portable GrayMap |
PPM | Portable PixMap |
PFM | Portable FloatMap |
PAM, PNM | Portable AnyMap |
Text Files
Information about text files such as encoding, byte order mark (BOM), line break type and the number of lines, characters and words can be read out by the Filelist Creator, regardless of the extension of the text file. We therefore limit ourselves at this point to a selection of file extensions for typical text files without claiming to be exhaustive:
TXT | Plain Text |
CSV | Comma Separated Values |
XML | Extensible Markup Language |
JSON | JavaScript Object Notation |
DIF | Data Interchange Format |
HTM, HTML | Hypertext Markup Language |
PHP | Hypertext Preprocessor |
CSS | Cascading Style Sheet |
JS | JavaScript |
INI | Initialization File |
BAT | Batch File |
CMD | Command Prompt Batch File |
SH | Unix Shell Script |
VBS | Visual Basic Script |
C, CPP | C++ Source Code |
CS | C# Source Code |
GO | GO Source Code |
JAVA | Java Source Code |
PAS | Pascal Source Code |
PY | Python Source Code |
R | R Source Code |
Documents
Information on the author, title and number of pages of the following file formats can be output in your file list.
Portable Document Format | |
DOCX | Microsoft Word Document |
ODT | Open Document Text |
RTF | Rich Text Format |
HTML, HTM | Hypertext Markup Language |
EPUB | Electronic Publication |
File Attributes
General file attributes, such as information about whether a file is hidden, write-protected or has a hidden file extension (macOS only), can be added for all files to the file list regardless of their format or extension. In addition, the Filelist Creator supports the following format-specific attributes:
LNK, URL | URL/Link from shortcuts |
MP3, JPG, WMA, M4A, AVI, MOV, MP4, WMV, TIF, TIFF, JFIF | Windows File Rating (five-star rating of media files) |
Folder Information
In addition to listing files, the Filelist Creator also supports listing folders. The Filelist Creator can output information on folders such as the folder size, the number of files and/or folders contained (with or without the files and folders from subfolders), as well as the depth and the folder level.
Folder | Information about arbitrary folders and their content |
Note
Of course, the information mentioned only applies to the extent that the relevant file format and / or the operating system also supports the corresponding information. For example, the file attribute "Hidden Extension" can only be used in the macOS version of the Filelist Creator, as Windows does not recognize such a file attribute. Further examples are audio files that do not allow metadata or image files that do not allow information on resolution or color depth due to the format.
Export Formats
You can save your file list in the following file formats:
TXT | Text File |
HTML | HTML-Website |
CSV | Comma Separated Values |
XLSX | Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet |
ODS | Open Document Spreadsheet |
DIF | Data Interchange Format |
PNG | PNG-Image |
JPG | JPG-Image |
BMP | BMP-Image |
Druck | Print via physical or PDF printers |
In the settings you will furthermore find format-specific options for adapting the export to your needs. For example, it is possible to link your files in HTML format, you can adapt the encoding of text files, select the field delimiters of the CSV files, set the font, colors and borders for printing or saving as an image, and much more.