On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 12:33:01 -0800, Timmy D <Timmy
D@d...> wrote:

>I find it so painful to open the properties for each file individually and 
>change title, album, artist, etc.
>
>Does anybody know a way to open all the xml tags for a set of media files at 
>once for edit?   What would be awesome is if you could open (download?) the 
>tags in a database app, spreadsheet, or even text editor.  You could then 
>make your changes -- like copy and paste an artist name to 25 lines instead 
>of typing it 25 times in separate Windows dialog boxes !!
>
>I know this is technically possible, but has anybody ever done it?


It's actually fairly simple using the windows media player SDK object
model, the WMDB database is a binary DB but there are export methods
you can use. Dale Preston wrote one such XML exporter 

http://www.dalepreston.com/Blog/2007/03/windows-media-player-metadata-backup.html

You should be able to parse that file, set attributes and element text
and push it back to WMP from the dump there.

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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