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WM/Genre (Compact 2013)

3/26/2014

This attribute contains the genre of the content.

Global Constant

g_wszWMGenre

Data Type

WMT_TYPE_STRING

Remarks

This is the preferred attribute for specifying the genre of content.

If you change either WM/Genre or WM/GenreID in an MP3 file, the other attribute will be changed to match.

The following table shows example values for this attribute.

File type

Example value

Audio

"Rock"

Video

"Drama"

Requirements

Header

dshow.h

Library

Strmiids.lib

See Also

Reference

Attribute List