Finding file details...

[Kam-Hung Soh]

Roger Upole wrote:
> Kalibr wrote:
>> I've been trying to figure out how to find the details of files
>> (specifically music for now) for a little sorting script I'm making,
>> My aim is to get details on the artist, album, and genre for mp3 and
>> wma files (possibly more in the future). My closest match was when I
>> stumbled accross PyMedia, but it only supports up to 2.4 (I have 2.5).
>> Now I see a bit mentioned on GetFileVersionInfo, but that doesn't seem
>> to help (and most of it went over my head). Is there any module I can
>> use to find this sort of data? I'm trying to not make it specialised
>> in music, because I may want to extend this to picture, movie, text
>> etc. files in the future. Any ideas how I could go about this?

I think GetFileVersionInfo() only provides version information for DLL 
and EXE files.

See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms646981.aspx

> 
> 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

Great tip, Roger!  This solution works for WMA files (I don't have any 
MP3 files handy), so I think it would work for any media files in Windows.

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Kam-Hung Soh <a href="http://kamhungsoh.com/blog">Software Salariman</a>