pleae help, how can i change the info that i view next to my tile icons?

[Guest]

Something has recentley changed on my computer that i can't work out. I have all my music files etc in 'Tile view'. It used to display: the name of the file, the artist and the album name next to the icon itself. But now it only shows the file name, type of file(mp3,wma etc) and size. - the other details are displayed on the side menu paine
Im prob being really stupid, but how do i change it back to the way it used to be

Cheers


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[Jim Macklin]

Look at your view menu on the menubar. See layout also
look at customize.




| Something has recentley changed on my computer that i
can't work out. I have all my music files etc in 'Tile
view'. It used to display: the name of the file, the artist
and the album name next to the icon itself. But now it only
shows the file name, type of file(mp3,wma etc) and size. -
the other details are displayed on the side menu paine.
| Im prob being really stupid, but how do i change it back
to the way it used to be?
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| Cheers!
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[Keith Miller]

In the registry, each music file type should have a 'PerceivedType' of "audio" -- example:

if you open regedit & select "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mp3", the right-hand pane should have an entry similar to this:

Name: PerceivedType
Type: REG_SZ
Data: audio

The PerceivedType entry "points" to another area of the registry:

"HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\audio"

and in the right-hand pane, the 3 values other than default should be as follows:

Name: TileInfo
Type: REG_SZ
Data: prop:Artist;Album;Duration

Name: InfoTip
Type: REG_SZ
Data: prop:Artist;Album;Year;Track;Duration;Type;Bitrate;Size

Name: Details
Type: REG_SZ
Data: prop:Name;Size;Type;Artist;Album;Year;Track;Duration

Hope this helps.
Keith

 

[Guest]

cheers, but where are the customise and layout options?

 

[Guest]

Cheers for your help keith. The "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mp3", folder just has a default file in it, should i change this to what you put, can i change it? the other registry entries are currently the same as what you said they would be
I dont know very much about changing registry entries :-
Cheer
Marti
----- Keith Miller wrote: ----

In the registry, each music file type should have a 'PerceivedType' of "audio" -- example

if you open regedit & select "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mp3", the right-hand pane should have an entry similar to this

Name: PerceivedTyp
Type: REG_S
Data: audi

The PerceivedType entry "points" to another area of the registry

"HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\audio

and in the right-hand pane, the 3 values other than default should be as follows

Name: TileInf
Type: REG_S
Data: prop:Artist;Album;Duratio

Name: InfoTi
Type: REG_S
Data: prop:Artist;Album;Year;Track;Duration;Type;Bitrate;Siz

Name: Detail
Type: REG_S
Data: prop:Name;Size;Type;Artist;Album;Year;Track;Duratio

Hope this helps
Keit

 

[Keith Miller]

You don't want to change the default value, just add a couple of new ones. You can add them by hand but here's an easier way. Copy all the text between the dashed lines, paste into notepad and save it with any name you want but give it an extension of .reg. Right-click the saved file & select the merge option.

Text of mp3.reg:
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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.mp3]
"PerceivedType"="audio"
"Content Type"="audio/mpeg"