(If you
want columns useful for video files, such as Duration and Frame rate,
you??™ll have to add them yourself.)
Music Details
Shown by default for music files (e.g., MP3 and WMA files), this shows
files in Details view, making Explorer look somewhat like iTunes??™ music
library listing. The default columns are Name, Artists, Album, #,
Genre, and Rating. (Most of the columns get their information from the
tags embedded in the music files, as described in ???Fix Music Tags,??? earlier
in this chapter.)
Music Icons
This is exactly the same as Music Details, except the files are shown as
thumbnails (Large Icons) by default. Why Microsoft felt the need to
have two different music templates, yet only a single template for both
photos and video files, is anybody??™s guess.
So, how do you put these to use? The key is to not accept Vista??™s defaults,
but rather to customize each template so that the view Explorer shows you
is more likely to be the one you??™ll want. Here??™s how you do it:
1. Find a folder with files that are uniquely representative of a certain kind
of content, like a bunch of photos or a collection of music files, and
open it in a new window.
2. Right-click the folder in the tree to your left, select Properties, and then
choose the Customize tab.
3. Choose a template that most closely matches the contents of the selected
folder (i.e., Pictures and Videos for a folder containing .jpg files).
The Also apply this template to all subfolders option here is
particularly handy in that it allows you to customize an
entire branch of folders.
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