Windows Explorer has erased the settings for my music folders

[Guest dmehling@keenebroadband.com]

I use a music download subscription service that stores the music in

folders on my hard drive. All of the folders were correctly set up

for organizing music files, and if I opened a folder containing music

files I could simply click on the button on the left hand pane called

play all and it would play all files in the folder through the Windows

media player. However, for some unknown reason all the correct

settings have been lost, and now my music folders are set to organize

its contents as documents and not music files, which means the play

all button is gone. To get the button back I have to go to properties

and reset to view as a music folder. In addition the details for the

folder have reverted back to default which means any of the details

such as track number or artist name have disappeared. For those

folders I have to go to choose details and select track number for

that attribute to appear again. I have many music folders and it

would be a very painstaking process to go to every single folder and

change the properties and details to the way I want them. I tried to

select all of the folders and apply the settings once, but it does not

change anything. Is there an easier way to change the settings or

attributes of the folders so that applying the attributes to one

folder such as the parent folder would apply those same attributes the

subfolders?

[Guest Claymore]

Re: Windows Explorer has erased the settings for my music folders

 

On Aug 12, 9:01 pm, dmehl...@keenebroadband.com wrote:

> I use a music download subscription service that stores the music in

> folders on my hard drive. All of the folders were correctly set up

> for organizing music files, and if I opened a folder containing music

> files I could simply click on the button on the left hand pane called

> play all and it would play all files in the folder through the Windows

> media player. However, for some unknown reason all the correct

> settings have been lost, and now my music folders are set to organize

> its contents as documents and not music files, which means the play

> all button is gone. To get the button back I have to go to properties

> and reset to view as a music folder. In addition the details for the

> folder have reverted back to default which means any of the details

> such as track number or artist name have disappeared. For those

> folders I have to go to choose details and select track number for

> that attribute to appear again. I have many music folders and it

> would be a very painstaking process to go to every single folder and

> change the properties and details to the way I want them. I tried to

> select all of the folders and apply the settings once, but it does not

> change anything. Is there an easier way to change the settings or

> attributes of the folders so that applying the attributes to one

> folder such as the parent folder would apply those same attributes the

> subfolders?

 

Hello,

 

In Explorer, select the top folder in the music folders tree.

Right-click on this folder => Properties => Customize tab

Under "Use this folder as a template" select 'Music' from the drop-

down box.

Check the box 'Also apply this template to all subfolders'

[Guest dmehling@keenebroadband.com]

Re: Windows Explorer has erased the settings for my music folders

 

On Aug 12, 9:58 pm, Claymore <claym...@ontera.net> wrote:

> On Aug 12, 9:01 pm, dmehl...@keenebroadband.com wrote:

>

>

>

> > I use a music download subscription service that stores the music in

> > folders on my hard drive. All of the folders were correctly set up

> > for organizing music files, and if I opened a folder containing music

> > files I could simply click on the button on the left hand pane called

> > play all and it would play all files in the folder through the Windows

> > media player. However, for some unknown reason all the correct

> > settings have been lost, and now my music folders are set to organize

> > its contents as documents and not music files, which means the play

> > all button is gone. To get the button back I have to go to properties

> > and reset to view as a music folder. In addition the details for the

> > folder have reverted back to default which means any of the details

> > such as track number or artist name have disappeared. For those

> > folders I have to go to choose details and select track number for

> > that attribute to appear again. I have many music folders and it

> > would be a very painstaking process to go to every single folder and

> > change the properties and details to the way I want them. I tried to

> > select all of the folders and apply the settings once, but it does not

> > change anything. Is there an easier way to change the settings or

> > attributes of the folders so that applying the attributes to one

> > folder such as the parent folder would apply those same attributes the

> > subfolders?

>

> Hello,

>

> In Explorer, select the top folder in the music folders tree.

> Right-click on this folder => Properties => Customize tab

> Under "Use this folder as a template" select 'Music' from the drop-

> down box.

> Check the box 'Also apply this template to all subfolders'

 

That's exactly what I did, and that is my main problem since it does

not make any change on the subfolders.