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I'm a photographer who likes to organize my files using tags - landscape, birds, place, etc. I've tagged all of my photos but when I try to use File Explorer to search for files by one of the tags, the only tag option that displays is "unspecified". No matter what I do it doesn't seem to work...

Now that ms stopped providing metadata support for Windows media player does anyone have any registry hacks to divert to another music database (MusicBrainz)? https://www.ghacks.net/2019/01/27/changes-to-windows-media-center-and-player-metadata-service/

As of this month Microsoft has stopped supporting metadata for Windows media player on Windows 7 so can anyone confirm whether Windows 10 Windows media player still supports metadata this is CD information but names albums tracks artists etc

The Windows Runtime (WinRT) is the technology that powers the Universal Windows Platform, letting developers write applications that are common to all Windows devices, from Xbox to PCs to HoloLens to phones. Most of UWP can also be used by developers targeting traditional desktop applications...

Link Removed Link Removed So some of my library albums didnt have album art or they have an wrong or low quality one. Ive folowed the official instructions on how to add /chnage custom album art (that copy and paste job from your pc or internet pictures). It went well for most of the parts...

Hello everyone I have used this website: http://www.fileformat.info/convert/image/metadata.htm To view the metadata of PNG file. Is there any software or website that can show more data than the website above? When Windows gives a PNG file a "stamp" in form of dates (created, accessed...

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Hi, I have a big bunch of audio files, and I'd like to list them out in cell format with the lengths in seconds listed out next to them. I have a simple batch file that I found online that lists out filenames in wordpad. Is there something similar that would list out the file names with the...

In windows 8 I am not able to change video file's Rating (starts), I right click a file, the go to properties>Details I see the starts but I can not change them, I tried to allow all permissions. What should I do? I have tried rating in the Windows media player library, but when I rate a...

About every 4th or 5th time I Shutdown my Windows 8.1 PC a fairly large error message appears on the screen. The key words are "Restructuring Cache Metadata". Then instead of shutting down, the lock screen reappears and the PC starts up again. Doing another Shutdown at that point almost always...

I have a couple of video files downloaded from YouTube, which have personal names appear after the video title on screen in VLC when the video begins to play ( I assume the names are those of the people who uploaded them). I have checked on both the General and Details tabs of the properties of...

When I open a video folder and click on “More Options” and then “Details”, in the Details view, one sees 4 columns: Name, Date, Type, and Size for an flv file. But I can create many more columns for an mp4 file than for an flv file. Let me explain. For an mp4 file one may see Length. In...

I've done some research and cannot find a procedure to copy a folders Label settings to all embedded folders. There is a function to copy a folders type to embedded folders such as select 'Music' and apply that to all embedded folders but nothing for copying Label settings. Example: Say I...

adding and editing tags/keywords in video files like .AVI, .FLV etc. hi in windows explorer when I right click a .wmv or .mp4 files and go to "Properties" -> "Details" I can add and edit tags/keywords. .flv, .avi and other video files DON'T have this options under the "Details" section. (I...

This is driving me crazy. Whenever I try to remove 'read only' status from a file or folder, basically NOTHING HAPPENS. I click apply and it acts like it worked. But once I look at the properties for that same folder it's still READ ONLY. I need to edit metadata on multiple files for class...

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In the past I saved music on my computer in mp3 format, and I was able to edit the properties (artist, track number, album, year, etc.) of the file in the music folder. Recently, I started saving them in FLAC format, but I noticed that I cannot edit the properties like I could with mp3. Does...

Ulimately, I just want folder size to be displayed when viewing in details mode but it seems that isn't an option with windows 7 so the next best thing is when you hover the mouse curser over the file and the metadata pops up (I think it's called tooltips) with the file size in it - but this is...

In this video, John sits down with Kyle McClellan of the WCF RIA Services team and responds to top questions from the RIA Services forums. Kyle runs through various scenarios and provides great guidance on how to identify and solve these issues. Here are some of the topics he covers: How do I...

Hi,Ive run into this problem recently,and do not know how to fix it. I cant remember any significant changes made to my system to trigger this. The problem im having is,all the info ID tags for the songs show fine,in idtag&rename and a fewe other id software,but none of it shows up in the...