I am ripping my audio CDs to an external drive.  I rip into .wav
format with Exact Audio Copy, and tell it to use the freedv.org
server.  Then when compressing with the Monkey's Audio lossless
compressor frontend, I tell it to change the ID3 tags a bit based on
the track number, folder it's in, etc.

This all works well; the files are named Artist - Title.ape, and they
have all the ID3 tags I want, according to Tag&Rename (an ID3 and
filename editing program).

However, when I view the .ape files in their folder, windows leaves
blank all the columns for 'Album', 'Genre', 'Track', etc., all of
which (to my way of thinking) should contain the ID3 information.

How can I make Windows use the ID3 information that's already imbedded
in the files to display this in the appropriate columns when I'm
viewing the folder? (or alternatively, how can I make Monkey create
the file tags in such a way that Windows displays them?)

By the way, Windows does display things properly with files in 'My
Music' folder on my main drive that have been ripped in MP3 format.

Thanks.

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Clarification of Question by kevinsp8-ga on 26 Oct 2004 18:14 PDT

OK, in doing some more research, I believe the problem may be
something to do with Windows XP not recognizing .ape files as music
files... although when I have the .wav files on the disk, it doesn't
display the id3 info either, although it does list the columns when
the info would go...