Photo Keywords in Media Player 11

[Guest]

How is it possible to add and use keywords in WMP 11.
You can view photos by keyword, but there is no options for adding or
creating keywords.
Even the built in help does not even mention keywords

 

[John Inzer]

How is it possible to add and use keywords in WMP 11.
You can view photos by keyword, but there is no options for adding or
creating keywords.
Even the built in help does not even mention keywords

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Try the following if the files are in the
..jpg format.

Open a folder that contains image files.

Select all the files you wish to edit and
right click the highlighted group.

From the menu...choose...Properties /
Summary tab / Advanced button...

Add info to any of the following fields
by simply selecting the field and begin
typing.

Title
Subject
Keywords
Comments
Author

When you are finished click the OK
button. All selected files will be updated.

Searching...

Open a folder that contains image files...
"My Pictures"...for example...

Left click the "Search" button on the toolbar.

In the "Search Companion" pane...choose...
All files and folders.

Enter your keyword in the "A word or phrase
in the file" field...

Click "Search".

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John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Guest]

I understand what you are saying, but highlighting multipled items, and going
to Properties /Advanced, all the boxes are greyed out.

But that is not what I was hoping for.
I wanted to create Keyword groups from within media player, and then drap
and drop the files that I want with that keyword associated with into that
group.

With over 10,000 photos to keyword, with multiple tags, IE; sunset, place
name, doing it in explorer to then view in WMP sort of defeats the object of
making them viewable in media player for me

Am I correct in thinking that perhaps media player is just capable of
viewing them, but cant actually add and edit the tags. I was hoping for the
same functionality for photos as you get for music files

 

[John Inzer]

I understand what you are saying, but highlighting multipled items,
and going to Properties /Advanced, all the boxes are greyed out.

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You are apparently on the wrong screen.
Have a look at the following image:
http://tinyurl.com/2mudlq

Click on Title, Subject, Keywords, Comments
or Author and begin typing.

AFAIK...the option you are asking for is
not available in Windows Media Player...
that's why I offered a different solution.

snip<

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John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Guest]

Yes, I was, my fault, forgot to click on the Advanced button.

Shame it is not available in WMP, if you can edit the tags for audio, not
being able to do the same for photos is a bit of a slip. I had start to look
for software that has good keyword handling and sorting capabilities, but so
far only come up with KPhotoALbum for Linux. This would mean downloading all
the source, and compiling for Windows. A prospect I am not looking forward
to. Maybe now the time has come to jump ship and go over to Linux

Thanks for the help

Neil

 

[Guest]

OK, so now I have worked out how to add some keywords, how do you get WMP to
update and recognise them?
I added keywords to some photos, tried to re scan the monitored folders, but
when yo selecte Pictures/Keywords, they all still show as unknown. No
keyword groups have appeared