Hey guys, long time no post.

I search the forums and web for this, but it's a hard one for keywords.

I recently switched back to Windows, skipping a decade of development. When I open a typical folder, I get:

Name
Date Modified
Type
Size

I love it. But when I open a folder that has WAV files, or MP3, it thinks I have an album and gives me none of that. Instead it's:

#
Title
Contributing Artist
Album

I know now how to right click and change that, for that folder. But how do I tell Windows that I never want it to change that for any folder?

I've tried going into Folder Options -> View -> Apply to Folders, which says that it should take my current configuration and apply it to all folders, but it does not. I think the trick is that it applies it to all folders "of this type," which Windows is keen to determine.

Any help?

Much appreciation in advance.

Barry

This tells you how to do that:

Customize the Five Windows Folder Templates (http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16694/customize-the-five-windows-folder-templates/)

I found this by a search string "customise Windows folder templates".

Alan,

Thanks! I had actually found that page in my searching, and it looks like EXACTLY what I want, but when I open the properties for my folders, I do not have a "customize" tab. I have:

General, Shortcut, Security, Details, Previous Versions

So I had figured that page applied to a different version of Windows, and forgot about it.

I am currently running Windows 7 Pro (which I should have included, sorry), and that page does say that it covers Windows 7, so I'm not sure why I don't get the "Customize" tab.

And I just figured that out - apparently, if you choose something in "My Documents", you don't get the customize tab, and the folder I was using as example was in there.

Thanks again for the tip!

Glad you have got there! It is a very useful tool - before finding that audio folders were an absolute pain as they came with a bunch of fields I did not want, and hardly any of those I did want.

Yes! Sadly, they have a hundred fields of meta data you can include, Sample Rate wasn't among them... that's the only one that I would have added.