VB??

[atom290]

When you highlight a file within windows you get a bucket load of attributes associated with that file.

Does anyone know any particular object within VB that can be used to get the attributes?

Ive tried the scripting runtime, but it doesnt give you enough info

[Plotloss]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base/getfileattributes.asp

[atom290]

Doesnt quite give enough info

If you look a the file details in XP of an MP3 file then it gives you the artist name and details of the file.

Well thats the info I need to get

[iaint]

90% certain it's data in the file header, not a windows file system set of properties. New versions of windows just happen to know how to read and display them.

You'll need to find a control that allows the manipulation of the mp3 data. might be possible to hijack the mplayer dll...

Iain

[Plotloss]

You want to read the IDv3 tags, they are not file attributes, what you are seeing is an MS applet attached to the back of the properties screen.

They look like file properties but are actually stored in the MP3 header not the file system...

[pdV6]

I guess similar is true for pictures - I like the way XP shows you the date the picture was taken, plus model of cemera used, whereas Win2k just shows you the date the file was created in the filesystem.

I'd like a way of watermarking my photos with the date taken, as its impossible to tell once they've been printed...

[Plotloss]

I think PSP has a watermarking facility...

[pdV6]

Yeah - I was really thinking of a way to batch process a few 1000 photos and watermark with the date taken (automatically extracted from the file) - d'ya know if that kind of thing s possible in PSP?