Printing Badly Needed in Creative MediaSource Organi

I am posting this in hopes that someone with the Creative organization will read it. I have my whole collection on my computer in mp3 format, as well as on my 40GB Nomad Jukebox Zen. I want to make a printed listing of my library. I have been able to do this to some extent with a competing product, but only by second guessing the organization of their database.
Such a printout would need flexibility with regard to organization and formatting of the output, which is a lot to ask for. But a very workable compromise would be a feature which would output a csv text file whose contents could then be imported into Excel (or some other suitable program.) This is what I did with the competing software and I was able to print very small lines with bold headings for the album names, etc.
Perhaps there is some such feature already available in the MediaSource organizer; if so, someone please direct me to it. If not, I think the lack of printing capability (of some sort) is a significant deficiency which should be addressed. Even an explanation of the database structure would be helpful.
Thanks for listening.

rsilber wrote: Dear SSR, Thanks for the reply, but it poses some questions. ()How does one obtain the older Creative PlayCenter? (2)Does it mean uninstalling the current PlayCenter and then regenerating all the (my) 7000 entries? Does the printing feature on the older PlayCenter give any control over the font size and page arrangement?
I'm not sure if PlayCenter clashes with MediaSource, so you might have to uninstall it.
You have to install PC2 first, then the update 3.02.52. PlayCentre 3.02.52 (links are to Nomadness.net's download section)
The printed output was very basic with zero control if memory serves correct.
As for the WinAmp plugin, would I have to duplicate an MP3 library in WinAmp to get the HTML output?
No. It loads the library from your player. Plus you can control the display format of the queue, so have some control over the output.

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