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[eyore]

OK see if this helps. This is the zip file for MP3info.
You extract these files to a folder.
The contents of the folder should match this.
See the item marked mp3info.exe? That's the one to double click to get the files to install.
If it's not there or the files don't match the picture, you've downloaded the wrong thing. If the rest of the files are there but no exe file, make sure your hidden items are not hidden (check by searching for another exe file on your PC that you know must be there - like the exe file for your browser)

[Some1]

OK see if this helps. This is the zip file for MP3info.
You extract these files to a folder.
The contents of the folder should match this.
See the item marked mp3info.exe? That's the one to double click to get the files to install.

Your screen shot shows that you are using winrar to work with .zip files. Winrar is not included with a standard Windows 8(.1) installation. Windows Explorer does display the contents of .zip files natively as a folder though. I suspect that is how he is viewing the contents of the zip. The Explorer settings will effect the way ( if or not ) extensions are displayed. If viewing that folder in Explorer without showing the extensions, one would see three files, all with the same name ( mp3info ). The difference would be the icon that is displayed for each file.

That screen shot is helpful to show the files that are in the mp3info-0.8.5-win.zip file.

Is the mp3info.exe a setup/installer or is it the application ( you seem to imply that it is the installer program )?
An issue I've run across with Windows 8.1 is that a lot of installers for older applications/programs do not create shortcuts to launch those programs during the installation ( need to manually create the shortcuts ).

[eyore]

OK found the problem 
The zip file has to be installed manually as it doesn't have a setup file. I had at the back of my mind that there were two ways of doing this. One manually and one setup file that did it all for you. I actually have both versions on my PC.
I'm guessing he's no longer providing the GUI version (if I get my definitions mixed up, forgive me, by GUI I mean the file that you double click to install it). It appears he is no longer supporting his program.
Here's the file needed which I downloaded from his site in 2011 when I got my Win7 PC

http://www.mediafire.com/download/x6zdus4u87771c2/MP3-InfoExtension.exe

Just download this and double click it (it's clean, trust me) and it will run through the usual routine - do you want to install this file, accept the agreement and finish. I've included what follows just for information on installing the current file on offer

The only way to install the current version he offer is as follows (from the zip file and named install)
Installing the Windows version WARNING - i have no idea what all this means but they are the instructions he gives. This is NOT NEEDED using the installer file I linked to. 



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There really is no formal installation procedure.  MP3Info is a single
executable that has no dependencies and uses no registry entries.
If you want to make mp3info available from anywhere on your system,
you can copy mp3info.exe to a directory in your system path.
This command would do the trick:

   copy mp3info.exe %SYSTEMROOT%



Installing MP3info from source (UNIX)
=====================================

Unpack and decompress the archive file, then change the current working
directory to the directory created by unpacking the archive.  The following
two commands should accomplish this:

   tar -xzvf mp3info-x.y.tgz
   cd mp3info-x.y
   
Next, edit the top of the Makefile and make any changes necessary to reflect
your environment. The defaults are valid for Red Hat and Fedora Linux systems,
but will probably work for many others.

Next, run the following two commands.

   make
   make install       (this command must be run by the root user)

If you want to install just the console version use:

   make mp3info
   make install-mp3info    (this command must be run by the root user)

If you want to install just the GTK version use:

   make gmp3info
   make install-gmp3info   (this command must be run by the root user)

... and that's it. There should be a binary named mp3info and/or another named
gmp3info in /usr/local/bin (or whatever you changed the 'prefix' variable to
in the Makefile).



Troubleshooting
===============

If 'make install' results in an error like the following:

     install: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/man/man1/mp3info.1': No such file or directory
     
you probably need to go back and edit the 'manpath' setting in the Makefile. 
The manpath variable must reflect one of your system's repositories for manual
pages -- specifically for section 1 manual pages (so specifying /foo/bar/man
would not be sufficient -- you would need to specify /foo/bar/man/man1 or
/foo/bar/man/sman1 or whatever reflects reality).

If you have trouble determining where your system's man pages are stored, try
examining your MANPATH environment variable or see man's own man page (i.e run
'man 1 man').


Installing the pre-compiled binaries
====================================

Run the following command as the root user.  Note that you must have the
RedHat Package Manager (RPM) installed.  If you don't have RPM installed on
your system, you can get it from the RedHat web site (www.redhat.com), but you
will probably find it easier just to build from source code.

   rpm -ivh mp3info-x.y-z.i386.rpm
   
If you are upgrading from a previous version of MP3Info, use this command:

   rpm -Uvh mp3info-x.y-z.i386.rpm

[ChrisLyndon]

I really appreciate all the time you put into trying to help me eyore. I was on the phone with a Dell technician for almost 2 hours, and he could not figure out how to load the program. This is what is contained in the folder that I download. It does not match your folder at all..

[eyore]

That's correct. That's what I have in my programs (x86) folder. That means it's been installed if you used the file I uploaded. Have you tried looking at a mp3 file and clicking the properties to see if the tab is there?
I don't understand the bit about loading the program? Once installed its there. It only adds the shell extension to the properties tab, it doesn't run like a program. Are your mp3 files showing the icon showing the bitrate?

[ChrisLyndon]

I just checked an MP3 file - the tab is not present either from the root folder properties window, or from the properties window directly from an individual file. I may be using the wrong terminology when I say the program has not loaded. What I mean is that the program has not reset the configurations for my MP3 folders/properties window.

[eyore]

OK, let's take a step back and go from basics.
Firstly, is you PC still running 32 bit or is it 64 bit?
Am I right that you used the setup file I posted on mediafire?
If you did, did it run through the setup routine (do you want to run this file - yes -run the installer, confirm the  "I agree" and then the message that it had finished?
If that's all OK and it's not showing. I'd guess that something with Windows 8 isn't compatible with it. I found a lot or programs that wouldn't run on my Win7 64bit system.
See if you have a folder in c/windows/sysWOW64 (if you now have a 64 bit system)
that's where Windows stores 32 bit dll files. If you have that folder, look for a file called mp3ext.dll
If you have, it really should work. You have tried rebooting, I take it?

[eyore]

and do read this
http://sourceforge.net/p/mp3ext/discussion/general/thread/2a49fa0e/?limit=50

seems other have the same problem 

[ChrisLyndon]

My system is 64 bit - I attempted to add in the permissions, following the instructions in the link you sent. I got as far as pasting in the text and pressing "enter" but it brought up an error message.

[ChrisLyndon]

ok - heres the deal - I just discovered something grand. I do not think I will need to install the MP3-Info program after all. I am putting a period on that because it turns out there is a very user friendly way to use the program that I think GGG recomended yesterday. When I right click on a folder, it gives me as one of my choices to open "Mp3Tag" when I select that option, the MP3Tag window opens up, and every file from the folder is in the window ready to be edited as I see fit. In fact, this may be even easier to work with than the old program. Now that i discovered this, I am much more happy about using that program. So I am going to try it out for a while, and if it turns out that it is not easy to use, I will revisit this topic again. I do thank everyone for all the help though.

[pixelated]

My system is 64 bit - I attempted to add in the permissions, following the instructions in the link you sent. I got as far as pasting in the text and pressing "enter" but it brought up an error message.

Yes, I'm out of sync .  What does that error message say?  I'm asking because you may have a similar issue again in the future with Windows 8.

[ChrisLyndon]

I dont remember exactly - But like I said, I am moving on. I think the new program may turn out to be better. Here are a couple sreeenshots to show how easy it is...

[pixelated]

Cool beans.  I use Tag&Rename but it and Mp3tag are very similar.

I hope you're taking notes on paper on how you're setting up your new machine for when the system drive fails and you can't access any of your files, notes, apps or the Internet.

[ChrisLyndon]

reset my system drive?

[pixelated]

No, when the drive fails to boot.  Are you using a disk imaging/cloning utility to back up the system drive?  Just copying the executable files and the data files isn't enough because you have to also backup the Windows registry and other systems files.  When my system drives fail, I either re-clone the hard drive from the backup or just reinstall everything, whichever is more convenient.l