Export iTunes playlist as text

I see that there's a function to export a playlist as text, but when I do that, I get all kinds of other irrelevant info. I have iTunes configured so that the play lists only display the Title and play time of the track. I want my export to only show THAT . . . is there anyway to make that happen?

Neil Kaplan1 wrote:
copying and pasting from the play list and creating a text list that way USED to work… apparently in this new version of iTunes, it no longer functions that way. It pasted the actual mp3 files into the text editor!
Hi Neil, Actually it has worked that way as long as I can remember. When you copy from the iTunes window and paste into a text editor, it defaults to pasting as files. But you can easily override it by using Paste Special > As Text to get the behavior that you want.
Anyway, I found out how to do it , got help from Apple. There's an option to print the play list, so I printed it to a PDF and got what I needed. Thank you for your replies!

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Sorry for the very long delay, but due to a number of reasons I have only recently been able to revisit this issue.
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<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
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padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px; height: 340px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #FFEE80;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into the Script Editor">
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