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“Universal Metadata” tagging for various file types
I'm trying to find some application that allows me to easily add/modify metadata for various files such as PDF, MKV, DOCX, MP3, PNG, JPG etc.
All these types of files (and a lot more) support ...
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A more stable alternative Meta Tracker Linux search system
An indexed search system is a very convenient tool for many computer-related tasks.
I have been using Meta Tracker for a few years on Ubuntu and have met a lot of issues:
sometimes the Tracker icon ...
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How to batch rename files based on file header/metadata in Windows?
I have a directory full of randomly named files of different types, all with no file extensions. Most are images, with some videos, and some plaintext. I've used one of the Windows versions of file to ...
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Are there any current ebook cataloging management software that is able to retrieve amazon tags?
By amazon tags I am specifically referring to "Tags Customers Associate with This Product"
I have tried the latest versions of Calibre, Data Crow and eLibrary, but none seem to have such an option.
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Archiving Scanned Family Photos, How to Annotate?
I'm scanning old family photos for saving and distribution to family. I'd like to be able to give all known info about the photo. iPhoto would work, but most people don't have Macs. For cross ...
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Deleting music file duplicates but retaining iTunes metadata
Back when I first imported the majority of my iTunes library I had the copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library option checked, so basically my whole music library was duplicated on ...
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How to reuse/extend etckeeper's metadata engine for git control of non-/etc filesystems, or extend git natively with said capability?
Overview + question
Want etckeeper-like filesystem metadata control for non-/etc, git-controlled directories. Home and web-app directories, among others, are classically sensitive to metadata (file ...
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How to “clean” a PSD file before publishing?
I want to upload .psd (Photoshop CS5) files to a subversion repository, and since the format seems so... comprehensive (or maybe just bloated and convoluted), I'd like to just publish the core of the ...
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3rd party software for parsing (OCRing) receipts?
I need to organize a large number of scanned receipts. The receipts are scanned in PDF, and I need is software that will intelligently look at a document and parse out date, location / vendor, total ...
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How to create a batch file to add metadata to movies and rename them
I want to create a batch file that does the following:
Scan a folder's contents including subfolders for movie media
Parse from the file name, the movie name and the year, since I am using ...
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Is there a way to get file metadata from the command line?
Is there a way to get a file's metadata from the command line in Windows XP and above?
Particularly, I'm interested in getting the information one might normally see on the "Details" tab of a file's ...
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GPS metadata in images
I know that in JPG and TIFF images GPS location is (can be) stored in the Exif data. Are there any other formats that provide GPS location in metadata? I looked through the PNG specification and ...
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Is there any software that tags movie metadata automatically?
I'm familiar with using MusicBrainz for MP3's. Is there an equivalent program that exists for videos files?
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How to use ffmpeg to add metadata to an AAC file without reencoding?
I'm using ffmpeg to extract just the audio stream from a video file:
ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -vn -acodec copy audio.aac
This produces a clean audio file but without any metadata.
To add metadata, ...
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Digest based filesystem?
If a cloud backup provider (for example) is storing laptop backups, some files will be identical (Windows or Mac OS system libraries, for example).
The best way to store these would be to have a ...
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Which wiki toolkit has the greatest support for data freedom?
Our dev team has poured a lot of knowledge into a Sharepoint wiki. The experience has made me a convert to the core ideas of a wiki - ease of link/page creation, metadata, search tools, versioning, ...
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Can IMAP mail be migrated locally without loss of information?
I need to save all of my IMAP mail in an account I have that will be expiring, to my local disk. The problem is that no matter which IMAP backup tool I can find, there is always some loss of ...
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How do I add metadata to a PDF for Zotero?
How do I add metadata to a PDF?
I export the PDF with pdfCreator and I put name, date and keywords in, but Zotero simply doesn't recognize any metadata in this PDF.
Any idea?
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ZIP file with metadata?
Is there any standard way to store metadata (e.g. timestamps) inside ZIP files, along with the files?
What program would I need to use in order to do this?
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How to programmatically flip a QuickTime movie metadata attribute from one kind to another
I have about 1,700 QuickTime movie files (some have .mov extension, most do not; it's not important, all are seen by the system as "QuickTime movie" and that's what they are) in an organized folder ...
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How to annotate files - when long filenames are not enough
I work with many files doing general data analysis.
Things I want to know about my files include:
what data is contained in the file (in long and very long descriptive, english text)?
is the file ...
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How can I mirror a Linux directory and back up all metadata?
I need to backup my home folder (and a few other folders) on an organizational Linux NFS system where my account will be expiring soon, onto a personal hard drive (which is not using a Linux ...
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Synchronize music ratings between iTunes and Windows Explorer
I want to synchronize my file ratings between iTunes and Windows Explorer. I have found one utility--Orzeszek Ratings--that synchronizes between iTunes => Windows Media Player => iTunes. However, it ...
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How can I save a Word 2010 document so it has a thumbnail preview image in its metadata?
I would like to save a Word 2010 file so that it has automatically saves a thumbnail image of the first page.
These instructions mention how to get Word 2003 to save a thumbnail in the metadata of ...
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fix (completely rewrite) corrupted m4a audio tags, metadata, and containers
Background: My music library was originally encoded from CD's using iTunes a few years ago. I have several thousand files encoded as M4A (AAC) audio files, which I'd rather not re-encode. As a ...
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How to automatically save a source URL when saving an image in Firefox under Windows?
How could I automatically record the original URL of an image when saving an image from a webpage in Firefox under Windows? The URL could be written, for example, as metadata in the image EXIF.
How ...
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Windows Media Player 12 stops importing metadata from large music collections
I'm experiencing a strange issue with Windows Media Player 12 on Windows 7. I'm quite sure it has a link with the following two posts:
Duckworth's post
Loza's post
Description of the problem
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Generate directory listing with metadata, output to HTML
I'd like to generate an HTML view of my folders, with the ability to add metadata to the items. Things like a description, or other custom tags.
Anyone know of a utility for this.
Initially I ...
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Tagging words/phrases in Microsoft Word
I have a Word document for which I'm making some macros. The document contains various arbitrary phrases and words that my macro is supposed to manipulate. An example document may look like the ...
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How do I map the Windows key to meta (for Emacs) in Putty?
How do I map the Windows key to meta (for Emacs) in Putty?
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What's the most time and idiot-proof way to store metadata? [closed]
For example, let's say I keep a bunch of documents, images, videos, and ZIP archives on a remote computer/storage facility (say S3), which I download in a way that strips the files of their creation ...
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Can Windows 7 assign arbitrary tags to files?
Is there anything in Windows 7 that allows me to assign tags (ie. "Important", "Family", "Private") to files and then search by them?
For example, let's say I have pictures organized into directories ...
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Graphical annotation with media metadata?
Is there a tool that allows graphical annotation of media data (e.g. JPEG images) where the annotation is embedded into the media data's meta data?
For instance, I would like to point out, i.e. ...
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how to remove the meta data of all files within a folder and it's sub folders?
When a right click a file and hit details, it shows me Date created, date modified, owner, and computer.
(32-bit Windows Vista Sp2 Home Premium)
I have a folder that I want to send to someone.
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Batch Edit Keyframe Metadata FLV Recorded Stream Video
I recorded an FLV stream, but the resulting video has an awkward metadata quirk that prevents successful conversion to other formats. Here is a snapshot of the keyframes at the beginning of the FLV as ...
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What meta-information is contained in an image file?
I'm wondering what information is contained in an image file like JPEG or PNG.
I know that most of them contain a metadata file, but anything else other than that?
Anything relates to the license ...
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How do I edit/append metadata to files in Windows Explorer?
Windows 7 seems to have all these fancy metadata fields that are viewable in Explorer - but no way to edit all of them! I know you can right click -> properties to edit a few things and to scrub ...
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How to read available audio tracks in a video file?
Some video files contain multiple audio tracks. Multiple languages for example. Is there a command line tool which gets information about these audio tracks? Names of the audio tracks would be ...
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Setting “Open With” Metadata from a Bash script
I have a file whose extension is .log, though I have this particular file set to open in TextWrangler instead of Console.app (using "Open with" in Finder's Get Info panel).
I have a Bash shell script ...
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Linux software RAID 1 without metadata on the drives (still mountable without the raid setup)
I know I can simply create a degraded raid array and copy the data to the other drive like this:
mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 missing /dev/sdb1
But I want the specific disk to ...
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Mac made a flash drive “read only” in Windows?
I use a 128GB flash drive to move my work between several PCs (all win XP sp3) and a Mac with OSX10.6. The drive is formatted as NTFS, the Mac uses the Paragon NTFS driver for read/write.
Here's what ...
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Get mac tar to stop putting ._* filenames in tar archives [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Why do I get files like ._foo in my tarball on OS X?
I create autoconf scripts on a Mac. When tar runs, it puts all of these ._foobar names in the archive:
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I have 400+ bookmarks without titles (have 'untitled' for a title.) Is there an easy fix?
For a while I've used Opera's custom search as a tool to save urls Google Bookmarks. But my custom search never saved titles.
Now, I've imported these to Diigo and they all have (untitled) for a ...
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Do I need the meta-key for vim?
I'm looking in to learning emacs or vim. I started out with emacs but found the need for a meta key to be a hassle, especially since I have a non-english keyboard layout on my macbook.
So far I ...
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Display contact's organization in message list in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail Client?
I would like to see the company/organization in Thunderbird's message list (like Sender, Recipient, ..), but don't know of a way to enable this.
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Meta refresh tag not working in (my) firefox? [closed]
Code like on this page does not work in (my) Firefox 3.6 and also not in Fx4b11 (WinXPsp3)
Works in IE8, Safari 5, Opera 11, Mozilla 1.7, Chrome 9
<meta http-equiv=refresh content="12; ...
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Software to view metadata of an ISO file?
I have been searching for the list of metadata field of an ISO file on Google but couldn't find anything. That made me think that there isn't any metadata in an ISO file, just the files content and ...
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Does exist an MKV meta tag / metadata editor?
I'm looking for an MKV meta tag editor, I'm using PLEX Media Server and PLEX Media Center on my iMac to see movies.
PLEX is great because it automatically find and name all my movie library with year, ...
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Prevent Windows Exporer to extract metadata
Windows Explorer (windows 7 x64) crashes when it sees allegedly corrupted .wav files.
I'm dealing with this problem and the hotfix doesn't work for me: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/976417/en-us
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How to change internal page numbers in the meta data of a PDF?
I have a pdf document I created through non-Acrobat means (printing to pdf, then merging a bunch of pdfs), but I'd like to manually change the page numbers (i.e. the first several pages are simply ...
