"Conan Kelly" wrote in message
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Hello all,

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I was wondering if it is possible to change a property of a file
(right-click file in Windows Explorer (or [Alt] + [Enter]) Summary tab
"Advanced" button desired property) using VBA? Specifically, I want
to change the "Title" property of an MP3 file.

I'm using VBA in XL 2003 to do this. Right now, I have a loop that will
loop through each file and change the name of the file according to my
specifications using the File System Object in the Scripting Runtime
library. I want to have the code change the "Title" property of the file
to the file name (minus the extension), but it doesn't look like I can
access these properties using the FSO (or any other object) in the
Scripting Runtime library.

Does anyone know if it is possible to change these properties via code?
What objects I need to use/libraries I need to reference?

Thanks for any help anyone can provide,

Conan Kelly



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MP3 files may have ID3 tags. In general there
are two types of tag:

ID3V1 tags are simple, a 128 byte block of data that is
appended to the end of the file & contain

String literal "TAG"
Artist (30 bytes)
Title(30)
Album(30)
Comment(30)
Year(4)
Genre(1) ' for a lookup of standard genres

ID3V2 tags are more complex, variable in length, and, except
for some versions, are prepended at the beginning of the file. They
allow for all of the above info plus much more, such as
Custom Genre, Composer, Lyrics, Album image, BPM, etc.

Some references:
http://id3.org/ for general reading
http://id3.org/Developer_Information

This page has code to read/write your own tags:
http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/VB..._Tags_Code.asp

Since you state VBA, you will likely need to adapt this
code to your own usage.