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Author Topic: Batch MetaData tool recommendation  (Read 3834 times)

Josh

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Batch MetaData tool recommendation
« on: November 20, 2011, 02:51 PM »
Does anyone know of a good tool which can do batch modifications to metadata contained in a group of files? Operations such as modification, removal, and even metadata searching within files in a folder or group of folders?

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Re: Batch MetaData tool recommendation
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2011, 03:18 PM »
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What kind of metadata?

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Re: Batch MetaData tool recommendation
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2011, 03:23 PM »
exif details in a file, tags added to mp3s, etc. Basically, most of what you see when you look at the details tab in a file's property window.

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Re: Batch MetaData tool recommendation
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2011, 04:17 PM »
exif details in a file, tags added to mp3s, etc. Basically, most of what you see when you look at the details tab in a file's property window.

+ 1 from me.

I have been looking for exactly that kind of a tool for a while now. No joy so far.

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Re: Batch MetaData tool recommendation
« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2011, 06:03 PM »
@Josh
My default answer is: Total Commander with nice set of plugins ;)

Here is what can be done:

Searching

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Viewing

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Editing

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Two cons:
1. it needs some playing with WDXes,
2. only few plugins have attributes writing support.

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Re: Batch MetaData tool recommendation
« Reply #5 on: November 24, 2011, 04:48 PM »
Total Commander is nice but I would prefer a dedicated program. I've never been into explorer replacements as most of them do not fully replace the file management capabilities in Windows. Looking for more of a dedicated metadata tool.

Thanks for the suggestion thou :)