Next, type %1 into the field containing the first piece of information
(e.g., Artist), %2 into the field containing the second (e.g.,
Album), %3 for the third (e.g., Title), and so on. (Imagine your files
look like %1-%2-%3-%4....mp3).
4. When you??™re done, click the Generate button to preview the new tags,
and click Write Tags to commit your changes.
Ultra Tag Editor can also go the other direction??”that is, to generate filenames
based on tags. Better yet, both Windows Media Player and Apple
iTunes can organize your music into folders (e.g., \Music\Artist\Album)
based on the embedded tag information.
Figure 4-13. Use the Ultra Tag Editor to generate MP3 tags from filenames
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Photos, Pictures, Images
To Microsoft??™s credit, Vista??™s built-in support for photos is much better than
XP??™s, and it??™s about time. It would be even better if it all worked properly.
For instance, Windows Explorer has a nifty thumbnail display, along with
the handy Views pull-down that lets you quickly scale the thumbnails or
switch to the Details view (Figure 4-14). Now, Explorer is supposed to
choose the default view for each folder based on its contents, but the chimpanzee
who wrote the code should??™ve been better trained. It??™s not unusual to
see a folder full of Microsoft Access .mdb files shown as thumbnails, while a
folder full of photos is shown in the Details view!
When Explorer gets it wrong, it??™s easy enough to click the Views button to
cycle through the various display modes (or click the arrow to choose a view
from the list), but it??™s more effective to change Windows Explorer??™s perception
of the folder.
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