How to get a list of albums/artists?

Hi guys!
I'm scared that my hard drive might crash soon, and I'd like to have at least a list of the artists and albums in my itunes so I can reference it and go back and redownload/rip what I have now. I have much of it backed up, but I'd like it for future reference in case I forget a few months from now to back it up.
When I've exported my library it to a text file or xml, it's kind of hard to read. is there anything that does it just by artist and album to maybe a word file, or something very easily legible?
Thanks!
Alec

Backing up every few months is an invitation to disaster. That said...
Apple Script is your answer and there is no better repository than Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes ,what you're looking for can be found in the Exporting Info catagory.

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