The “Hey, Scripting Guys!” blog has been retired. There are many useful posts in this blog, so we keep the blog here for historical reference. However, some information might be very outdated and many of the links might not work anymore.

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The Scripting Guys Really Do Rock, Part 1 of 4

December 4, 2010 Dec 4, 2010 12/4/10

ScriptingGuy1

[Disclaimer: this is a reprint of a previously published article from the TechNet Script Center FunZone. The FunZone was not migrated from our old platform. This article is printed here due to popular demand.] This is part one of a four part series of articles about using VBScript to work with the Windows Media Player object model. Using ...

Weekend Scripter: A Cool Music Explorer Script

October 9, 2010 Oct 9, 2010 10/9/10

ScriptingGuy1

Microsoft Scripting Guy Ed Wilson here. I don’t know about you, but I have thousands of music files on my computer. In fact, I have exactly 4,018 music files. I used this Windows PowerShell command to count them: PS E:\Music> (dir -Include *.mp3,*.wma -Recurse | Measure-Object).count ...

Hey, Scripting Guy! How Can I Copy the Extended Data of My Audio Files to an Excel Spreadsheet?

May 31, 2008 May 31, 2008 05/31/08

ScriptingGuy1

(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! We have quite a large collection of speeches and audio training sessions that are sorted by … well, by nothing. However, all the ID3 tags [the file’s extended data] are up-to-date. Is there a way to extract the ID3 information from these files into an Excel spreadsheet?-- FB(image) (image) (image) Hey, FB. ...

How Can I Change the Title Property of a .WMA File?

April 17, 2006 Apr 17, 2006 04/17/06

ScriptingGuy1

(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I change the Title property of a .WMA file?-- LL(image) (image) (image) Hey, LL. Here’s a piece of trivia for you. Originally, the Beatles’ classic Yesterday was titled Scrambled Eggs. (Start singing the song, but instead of singing “Yesterday” sing “Scrambled eggs.”) Before the group ...

How Can I List All the Songs in the Windows Media Library?

August 8, 2005 Aug 8, 2005 08/8/05

ScriptingGuy1

(image) Hey, Scripting Guy! How can I get a list of all the songs (and their artists) in the Windows Media Library?-- KF (image) (image) (image) Hey, KF. Three words: practice, practice, practice. You know, the old joke about how do you get to Carnegie Hall and this is kind of a music-related question and Carnegie Hall is where they play ...

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