Commonly Used Windows Media File Attributes
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Windows Media files may contain any number of attributes, including user-defined attributes.
If the file has been added to the library, additional attributes associated with the media type may also be available. See Audio Items or Video Items for those additional attributes.
For more info about the Windows Media file attributes, see the Windows Media Metadata Usage Guidelines.
The following list contains commonly used attributes.
- Author Attribute
- Title Attribute
- WM/AlbumArtist Attribute
- WM/ContentDistributor Attribute
- WM/Genre Attribute
- WM/MCDI Attribute
- WM/MediaClassPrimaryID Attribute
- WM/MediaClassSecondaryID Attribute
- WM/Provider Attribute
- WM/TrackNumber Attribute
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