Can I make it show bitrate?

[pdsnickles]

With XP SP2, when I hovered over an MP3 file, it showed me the bit-rate. But with Vista Home Premium 64-bit, it does not. If I hover over an MP3 file it shows me:
Name, Type, Size, Artist and Length but no bit-rate.

Is there any way to make it show me the bit-rate? (Without taking the extra step of going to Properties, I mean - I want it to show me in the hover-over-it-with-cursor mode.)

 

[pdsnickles]

Seems weird that they would take this away , in Vista.
I wonder if there is some free utility or something that can replace it. Anyone?
I'll do a search...

 

[H2SO4]

With XP SP2, when I hovered over an MP3 file, it showed me the bit-rate. But with Vista Home Premium 64-bit, it does not. If I hover over an MP3 file it shows me:
Name, Type, Size, Artist and Length but no bit-rate.

Is there any way to make it show me the bit-rate? (Without taking the extra step of going to Properties, I mean - I want it to show me in the hover-over-it-with-cursor mode.)

It's possible to add bit rate as a column in Explorer (View menu, "Choose details...") and that will show up in the detailed file view. I don't know whether it'll be added to the hover info though. It might, and it should be a simple test.

 

[Zoloft]

Not free, but if you install DB Power Amp, and you hover over an MP3 or other audio file, it will give you all the details you could possible want, and it's configurable to show more or less.

 

[pdsnickles]

H2, nice idea, but that doesn't make any difference.
But Zoloft, you reinforced a hunch I had before, that maybe it was not a function of XP per se, but rather, a function of some software I had installed. I did not have DB Power Amp but maybe it was some other software that gave me that function...?
Can't think of what it would be though; I have mostly the same software installed on Vista as I had on XP... but maybe there was some little thing...