[2005] Need help with the openfiledialog and listview in my mp3 player

Right now i'm working on a mp3 player so to be full media player but I need help with the listview. I can open the music files i select and they appear in the listview and they play using MCI. My problem is I only want it split to show only the song in the listview not the directory that it came from. Here's my code for the openfiledialog:

VB Code:

Dim theList As Collection = New Collection()
 
        Dim x As Integer = Nothing
        OFD.Title = "Select music file"
        OFD.Multiselect = True
        OFD.Filter = "MP3 files (*.m3u, *.mp3, *.wav, *.wma, *.cda)|*.m3u;*.mp3;*.wav;*.wma;*.cda|Playlist (*.m3u)|*.m3u|MP3 files (*.mp3)|*.mp3|WAV files (*.wav)|*.wav|WMA files (*.wma)|*.wma|CDA files (*.cda)|*.cda|All files (*.*)|*.*"
 
        If (OFD.ShowDialog() = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK) Then
            lstSongs.Items.Clear()
 
            For Each filename As String In OFD.FileNames
                If filename.EndsWith(".mp3") Then
                    lstSongs.Visible = True
                    lblList.Text = "Hide List"
                    Dim ttext As String
 
                    ttext = Trim(filename)
                    'If lstSongs.Items.Contains(ttext) = True Then
 
                    lstSongs.Items.Add(ttext)
 
                ElseIf filename.EndsWith(".wma") Then
                    lstSongs.Visible = True
                    lblList.Text = "Hide List"
                    Dim ttext As String
 
                    ttext = Trim(filename)
                    'If lstSongs.Items.Contains(ttext) = True Then
 
                    lstSongs.Items.Add(ttext)
 
                ElseIf filename.EndsWith(".wav") Then
                    lstSongs.Visible = True
                    lblList.Text = "Hide List"
                    Dim ttext As String
 
                    ttext = Trim(filename)
                    'If lstSongs.Items.Contains(ttext) = True Then
 
                    lstSongs.Items.Add(ttext)
 
                ElseIf filename.EndsWith(".cda") Then
                    lstSongs.Visible = True
                    lblList.Text = "Hide List"
                    Dim ttext As String
 
                    ttext = Trim(filename)
                    'If lstSongs.Items.Contains(ttext) = True Then
 
                    lstSongs.Items.Add(ttext)
 
                ElseIf OFD.FileName.EndsWith(".m3u") Then
 
                    lstSongs.Items.Clear()
 
                    theList = Vmp3.openPlaylist(OFD.FileName)
 
 
                    For x = 0 To theList.Count - 1
 
                        lstSongs.Items.Add(theList.Item(x + 1))
 
                    Next
 
 
                    'lstSongs.Items.Add(OFD.FileName)
                End If
            Next
        End If

Hey!
Sorry but I for one doesnt understand the question :confused:

mmm... i dont either..

ok for example I open up a .mp3 file to play and it shows up in the listview as c:\Music\random song\anysong.mp3 but I only want the anysong part to show up not the directory of it I need to split it I tried substring and indexof but didn't work

also if my question still isn't makeing any sense I can get a screenshot and maybe explain it better that way because I need help with this

VB Code:

Dim f As String = "c:\Music\random song\anysong.mp3"
        MsgBox(f.Substring(f.LastIndexOf("\") + 1, f.Length - (f.LastIndexOf("\") + 5)))

Like this?

well I finally got it working thanks Atheist your code put me on the right track this is how I fixed it

VB Code:

If (OFD.ShowDialog() = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK) Then
            lstSongs.Items.Clear()
 
            For Each filename As String In OFD.FileNames
                If filename.EndsWith(".mp3") Then
                    lstSongs.Visible = True
                    lblList.Text = "Hide List"
                    Dim s As String
                    Dim s2 As String
                    Dim sR As String
                    s = filename
                    sR = StrReverse(s)
                    s2 = s.Substring(Len(s) - sR.IndexOf("\"))
                    lstSongs.Items.Add(s2)

The Path class is provided specifically for manipulating file paths. If you want to get the file name from a path then you may not be surprised to hear that the Path.GetFileName method is the way to go:

VB Code:

lstSongs.Items.Add(IO.Path.GetFileName(ofd.FileName))

The simple things in life are often the most overlooked. ;)

thanks alot jmcilhinney I never even knew I could do it that way