Get informational tooltips for audio, text, and shortcut files with Infotag Magic
Description: InfoTag Magic is a useful shell extension that provides informational tooltips on mouse-over for audio files (MP3, WMA, APE, and Ogg Vorbis), quick tooltip previews for text files (TXT, INI, LOG, BAT, DIZ, BAK, and QUE, tooltip information on the properties of windows shortcuts, and tooltip version information for EXE, DLL, and OCX files.
This is a very straightforward software that provides informational toolips whenever you hover your mouse over certain types of files (see screenshot). Here’s more info on each of the different types of files supported:
- Audio files: supports WP3, WMA, APE, and Ogg Vorbis. The first thing you need to find out is whether your audio player already provides informational tooltips for audio files, and, if so, whether you like the ones you already have. What I have noticed is while InfoTag Magic creates very nice tooltips, in some infrequent instances it omits some info even when that info seems to be available (as far as I can tell). The 2 MP3s in the screenshot both had info in their ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags, but the "Air" song did not have the title and artist displayed in the tooltip.
- Text files: (actually TXT, INI, LOG, BAT, DIZ, BAK, and QUE files). This is a really handy tooltip if you’re browsing a bunch of files or notes that you’ve created and would like to be able to quickly peer into files to see whats in them.
- Shortcuts: if you’re like me you not infrequently resort to right-clicking on a shortcut and displaying its properties to find out where it is pointing to and where it starts. With this tooltip, all you have to do is hover over a shortcut to instantly see this info.
- Executables: (EXE, DLL, and OCX). A quick way to see version and other info.
Wish list:
- The ability to switch tooltips off and on for certain file types. If, for example, my audio player already provides good tooltips for audio files and I simply want tooltips for the other filetypes. (Note that this is probably easily attained simply by installing InfoTag magic first and then re-installing your audio player or the software that provides the audio tooltips you want)
- Tooltips for video files
The verdict: this is a very nice program and very innovative insofar as it offers preview tooltips for text files, exec files and shortcuts. I find that I am more interested in the non-audio tooltips but its possible to get these and get audio tooltips from another source (see wish list above).
Version Tested: v1.0.b5
Compatibility: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP or Windows 95/NT with Internet Explorer 4.0 (or later) and Windows Desktop Update installed; no info on Vista.
Go to the program page to download the latest version (approx 137K).
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Cool thanks, but may I ask whats your audio player?
I’m trying out AIMP at the moment, which is a nice audio player. Definitely wins the “coolest audio file icon” award.
[...] Windows only: Freeware application InfoTag Magic adds useful file information to the Windows mouse hover tooltip to give you a better idea of what’s going on inside the file you’re looking at without requiring you to open it up to find out. As you can see in the screenshot, for example, InfoTag Magic displays an MP3’s metadata so that even if a song doesn’t have an informative filename, you can still get a preview of what’s inside. Likewise, InfoTag Magic will preview the first seven or so lines of a text file when you hover over it. Infotag Magic is freeware, Windows only. InfoTag Magic [via FreewareGenius] [...]
Works fine with Vista 32 Bit
Great tool
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[...] Windows only: Freeware application InfoTag Magic adds useful file information to the Windows mouse hover tooltip to give you a better idea of what’s going on inside the file you’re looking at without requiring you to open it up to find out. As you can see in the screenshot, for example, InfoTag Magic displays an MP3’s metadata so that even if a song doesn’t have an informative filename, you can still get a preview of what’s inside. Likewise, InfoTag Magic will preview the first seven or so lines of a text file when you hover over it. Infotag Magic is freeware, Windows only. InfoTag Magic [via FreewareGenius] [...]
[...] Windows only: Freeware application InfoTag Magic adds useful file information to the Windows mouse hover tooltip to give you a better idea of what’s going on inside the file you’re looking at without requiring you to open it up to find out. As you can see in the screenshot, for example, InfoTag Magic displays an MP3’s metadata so that even if a song doesn’t have an informative filename, you can still get a preview of what’s inside. Likewise, InfoTag Magic will preview the first seven or so lines of a text file when you hover over it. Infotag Magic is freeware, Windows only. InfoTag Magic [via FreewareGenius] [...]
[...] Infotag Magic: adds a variety of info tooltips for: WP3, WMA, APE, and Ogg Vorbis, text-preview tooltips for various text files (TXT, INI, LOG, BAT, DIZ, BAK, and QUE), file version tooltips for executables (EXE, DLL, and OCX), and original file locations for shortcuts. The only drawback with this software, aside from the file types that were not supported (such as images and videos) was that the audio file info was not consistent, and would fail to display tag info that was in the audio files on occasion. Which is a good segue to the next program I would like to mention. [...]
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Hi, I like your website banner. i.e., SOME DAY ALL THE SOFTWARE WILL BE FREE, coming to my issue, Could you please provide the code how to get the properties of a shortcut. Generally when we drag and drop a file from a particular location to desktop it will create a shortcut on desktop and to get properties of that shortcut, we usually rightclick on that shortcut and will select properties. Please provide vb.net code that will do the same thing.
Thank you.
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InfoTag was slowing down my old machine noticeably when entering mp3 folders. So I had to uninstall it… (but it’s ok software).
When it comes to tooltips (for OTHER than audio files) - nothing beats “InfoTip Extension” - one of those tiny Japanese apps (fortunately in English too) that just does something small - and does it perfectly. Check it out at http://www.na.rim.or.jp/~norio/
I used it on Win95, Win98 and now on Win2000 and I can’t recommend it enough.
Name’s InfoTIP. My bad. Download Link (and most of the page) doesn’t work, but I’ve found one working here:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/InfoTipX2.EXE
(I binary-compared it with one on my disk and it’s ok)