MP3 Hint
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Copyright (c) 2003 Piotr Chodzinski


Description
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MP3 Hint is an InfoTip Shell Extension. After installation, hovering the mouse cursor above any MP3 file icon will display a hint which will contain informations extracted from the TAG of this MP3 file. You'll see title, artist, album, year, comment, genere and track number. It can be very useful when you have a lots of files with meaningless names e.g. as Track23.mp3. With this extension you will fast recognize any MP3 file, without necessity of loading this file into a MP3 player. I'm sure you will appreciate advantages of this extension when you will be renaming your music files, copying choosen compositions, or browsing someone's music collection in the local network - you don't need to download whole file anymore to see what song it is, just hover your mouse cursor over its icon.

License
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MP3 Hint is a Freeware program (shell extension). That means that you can use it for free for personal or even commercial purposes (e.g. in the office).
You musn't decompily, dissasemblay or take any actions aiming at program modification. 
This program was tested very carefuly, but I don't take any responsability for any possible damages in your computer, system, data or reputation. 
You can distribute this program without any special limitations, on condition that you won't change the original distribution form (ZIP archive containing all the following files: MP3Hint.dll,  MP3HintReg.reg, Pomoc.txt and Help.txt).
MP3 Hint copyright (c) 2003 Piotr Chodzinski. All rights reserved.

Installation
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In order to install this extension follow operations below:
1. Extract the contents of the ZIP file to the system directory (in most cases it's C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM).
2. Choose Run command from the Start Menu and type the following text: regsvr32 MP3Hint.dll.
3. Run (by double-click) extracted file called MP3HintReg.reg and than delete it.
Well done. Have fun !

Unistallation
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To uninstall MP3 Hint do this operations in order:
1. Choose Run command from the Start Menu and type the following text: regsvr32 MP3Hint.dll /u.
2. Restart your computer.
3. Delete the MP3Hint.dll file.
That's all.

Informations
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MP3 Hint:
* handles TAGs in the ID3v1 and ID3v1.1 formats,
* while using it doesn't leave any trash in memory or System resources,
* supports English and Polish languages (wanna have support for your language ? - just write me),
* works in local network,
* shows not only information as a hint, but also as a text on the statusbar of opened Explorer window.

Thanks
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Special thanks for Andrey Sorokin (anso@usa.net) - the author of MP3TAG unit used partialy in this application.

Contact with author
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If you have any questions, you have found a bug, or just want to write me, you can send mails to the adress below. Want to have MP3 Hint in your native language ? Write me and I will send you all stuff needed for translation. Remember to write me only in English or Polish !!!

aionel@poczta.onet.pl

If you know Polish you can visit my homepage with other great programs & games made by me (sorry, only in Polish !):

http://www.republika.pl/programyaionela

You can also visit the official mini-webpage of MP3Hint, you will surely find latest version of this program there:

http://www.mp3hint.k7.pl



= Readme file completed on 7th February 2003 at 18:43:51 =