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[Kalibr]

On May 30, 3:03 pm, Kam-Hung Soh <kamhung.... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Kalibr wrote:
> > On May 30, 1:41 am, "Roger Upole" <rup... at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> You can use the shell COM objects to access media properties
> >> as shown by Explorer.
>
> >> import win32com.client
> >> sh=win32com.client.Dispatch('Shell.Application')
>
> >> folder= r'M:\Music\Bob Dylan\Highway 61 Revisited'
> >> ns=sh.NameSpace(folder)
>
> >> ## the column index for Artist may vary from folder to folder
> >> for c in range(0,255):
> >>     colname=ns.GetDetailsOf(None, c)
> >>     if colname=='Artists':  ## This shows up as just Artist on XP
> >>         for i in ns.Items():
> >>             artist=ns.GetDetailsOf(i, c)
> >>             if artist:
> >>                 print ns.GetDetailsOf(i, 0), artist
> >>         break
>
> >>             Roger
>
> > I shall give that a go. (is the module you reference this one?
> >http://python.net/crew/mhammond/win32/Downloads.html)
>
> If you installed ActiveState's Python, the win32com module should be
> installed.
>
> --
> Kam-Hung Soh <a href="http://kamhungsoh.com/blog">Software Salariman</a>

I gave your program a go, and it works magnificently.
Now I have to figure out how tro use it on a song by song basis
(I still suck at using classes).
Thanks so much for your help.