I found the code and made slight modifications but I don't know enough about
VBS to try to reverse the process. Maybe you can experiment by reversing
some of the formulas.

"RCTaubert" <RCTaubert@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thank you very much for the code. That will certainly allow me to read
> the
> data.
>
> Do you have any suggestions on writing it back once I have modified the
> data???
>
> "Dennis Marks" wrote:
>
>> There is a vbs script at my web site. Just drag and drop any folder on it
>> and all
>> id information for its files will be placed in a tab delimited file. Just
>> open it in any
>> spreadsheet and sort and format. Edit the script (right click and select
>> edit) to change the path to the
>> output file (it will create it) before using it.
>>
>> http://www.dcsi.net/~denmarks/listdir.vbs
>>
>> This will create the database. Maybe you can reverse the script to update
>> tags.
>>
>> "RCTaubert" <RCTaubert@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:F26197DA-2F80-4166-BB77-9D7181DB451C@microsoft.com...
>> >I want to write a program (vb6 or .net) to read the tags from all the
>> >music
>> > files in WMP10 and place the data in a database so I can update the
>> > information and write it back.
>> >
>> > Can anyone direct me to the specification for the layout of the wmv
>> > tag?
>> >
>> > Or does anyone know of a software package that will do this, either
>> > full
>> > application or library file (.dll)?
>> >
>> > In addition to WMP10 I use a program called CATraxx to catalog and
>> > track
>> > various pieces of information about albums, songs, and artists. I want
>> > to
>> > combine the data from this db with that from the wmv tags, then write
>> > the
>> > tags back to the song files as well as back to catraxx.
>> >
>> > Any help would be appreciated. I tried Google but couldn't seem to
>> > find
>> > any
>> > info that was helpful. Plenty of tag editors, but nothing that
>> > appeared
>> > to
>> > do what I want.
>>
>>
>>