What nomenclature, name spaces, .NET classes, ect... will allow me to access the detail fields of a windows directory, like Album, Artist, file type, year, ect....
What you refer to is extended info about media files (not directories) called ID3 tags. This is not attributes of the file itself (file system), but of the content (embedded data). There are different versions in different media files that are very different to read. Here is one example code: http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/tagreader.asp
There are no native IO methods in .Net for this, you have to use common data operations according to the individual media file and tag specifications to extract the info.
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