List details from extended files

For example a MP3 file is an extended file you can use to see some advanced properties.
This methos is useful for a lot of file types, not only MP3. Note, you will have to review the result differently when you work on a specific version of your operating system.

I need in this example to retrieve  some informations to store correctly my files.

Below script show only how to remove some informations without exporting it to a file.

Script :

# Listing of the file concerned

$mp3list = gci "path where the file is located" -recurse | % {$_.fullname}

$mp3list  | % {

$path = $_

$shell = New-Object -COMObject Shell.Application

$folder = Split-Path $path

$file = Split-Path $path -Leaf

$shellfolder = $shell.Namespace($folder)

$shellfile = $shellfolder.ParseName($file)

0..287 | Where-Object { $shellfolder.GetDetailsOf($shellfile, $_) } |

Foreach-Object {

'{0} = {1} = {2}' -f $_,

$shellfolder.GetDetailsOf($null, $_),

$shellfolder.GetDetailsOf($shellfile, $_)

}

}

your script will show these informations :

1 = Size = x Ko

2 = Element Type = votre lecteur associé au type de fichier (.mp3)

3 = Modified date = JJ/MM/YYYY HH:MM

4 = Creation date = JJ/MM/YYYY HH:MM

5 = Last access date = JJ/MM/YYYY HH:MM

6 = Attributes = A

9 = Type = Audio

10 = Owner = Workstation\Owner

11 = Kind = Documents

19 = Rating = Non classé

20 = Author = Chanteurs ou groupes

21 = Title = titre de la chanson

27 = Length = HH:MM:SS

28 = Transmission speed = xxxx Kbits/s

29 = Protected status = No/Yes

53 = Computer = Hostaname of your computer

155 = File name = nom-du-fichier.mp3

173 = Shared status = No/Yes

176 = FolderName  = Name of your parent folder

177 = Folder path = all information from your path to reach your file , it's corresponding to number "176"

178 = Folder = Parent folder where the file is stored

180 = Path = full path reference to reach the file (ex : c:\myfolder1\myanotherfolder\myfile.mp3

182 = Volume = volume reference where your file is stored (.mp3)

188 = Link status = Not resolved

269 = Shared status = not shared

You can  see a lot of informations  depend of your tags  or advanced properties in your file.