Metadata is commonly referred to as "data about data", and is often used for cataloging, indexing, and managing files in a computer.
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Software to strip image of any metadata
A concern I often have when sharing pictures online is that there may be some metadata contained within that will compromise my privacy. Exif data is one such example.
How can I strip any such ...
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Can iTunes display the TV season image and the episode image in the correct way?
I'm trying to add artwork to my ripped TV shows in iTunes and coming across a bit of a problem getting the correct images to be displayed.
If I set each episode to have the correct episode image then ...
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FFmpeg. Generating .ts files and adding metadata to them
Before I was following the steps:
Create some metadata:
id3taggenerator -o 1.id3 -artist "Emma Stone"
id3taggenerator -o 2.id3 -artist "Patricia Clarkson"
Create a file saying where to place the ...
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Transfer Songbird metadata to new computer
I recently decided to move from my ancient Windows 7 (32bit) laptop to a newer Windows 7 64bit one. Unfortunately, I'm having trouble transferring my Songbird library.
I copied the folder with all my ...
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Remove metadata from Office documents stored in SharePoint [duplicate]
Can anyone suggest a way of removing metadata, en masse, from Word and Excel documents that are stored in SharePoint 2010?
There are several thousand documents, each in their own folder (don't ...
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Is there any way to add metadata in a zlib-compressed file?
I've to keep a reference count together with a file which isn't on a standard filesystem but it's on Amazon storage. Files are compressed with zlib.
Are you aware of any method to add this metadata, ...
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Music Deduper alternate to Tuneup Media [closed]
Is there any free alternate to Tuneup Media Deduper that can identify and remove duplicate audio tracks using acoustic fingerprinting? I prefer a Linux version but Windows is fine too.
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Convert .mts file to .mp4 retain metadata
I would like to convert .mts files to .mp4 and retain the 'creation date' and 'modified date' metadata. I found the following post How to make Handbrake preserve capture time / creation time? that ...
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Avconv generating HUGE metadata over 90mb for 718mb video file
This is the metadata file, extracted with Atom box studio:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tok76wospngf854/moov
Video was converted with avconv, info:
/usr/local/bin/avconv -version
avconv version 9.4, ...
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Commands for reporting media file metadata info on a linux(Red Hat) machine
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I have a shell script running on MAC OSX that uses mdls command to report metadata information about media files (mp3, m4v, mp4, m4r etc.). I have to write a similar script for a linux ...
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How to show more Exif info in Windows tooltips?
Windows file browser, explorer, shows a tooltip with some info of the file when I stop mouse pointer over the filename or preview icon. For photos the tooltip shows resolution, date+time, camera ...
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How do I automate editing of metadata for a large number of music files?
I am disappointed with iTunes' support for organizing classical music. When listening on an iPod/iPhone/iHome device, it displays the artist, album and song title. I don't see an option to view ...
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How do I find the date a video was taken?
I have a Panasonic HD camcorder and I downloaded a bunch of videos to my computer directly without using the Panasonic software. The videos downloaded fine, but I can't tell when the videos were ...
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Using Calibre to insert metadata for iTunes PDF books
I'm looking for a quick way to add/edit metadata for PDF books. I'm hoping that there's already a program out there (I really don't want to write it myself) to search and insert metadata into PDF ...
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Metadata extraction for renaming recovered files
I recently recovered many deleted files by using a tool called photorec - http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
Great life saver. Only problem is that recovered files have their names replaced by ...
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XMP for Describing, Cataloging, and Searching Files and Folders
I am seeking a way to tag files and, if possible, folders or groups of files. I also wish to be able to search the files using these tags. With Windows 7 the search and tagging functions are available ...
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Proper PDF metadata key to enable right-to-left viewing in “Facing” view mode in PDF readers
I was wondering whether anyone knew the proper PDF metadata key (and value) in order to signify to PDF readers that the PDF in facing mode should be displayed from right-to-left (RTL) and not ...
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FFmpeg & iPhone: don't display audio language button
I'm creating an MP4 file with FFmpeg 1.1.1, using life and aevalsrc to generate some test video and audio:
ffmpeg -f lavfi -i life -f lavfi -i aevalsrc=0 -frames:v 750 life.mp4
If I play it on an ...
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Storage location of video tags in Windows Live Photo Gallery
I know that Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 stores people tags and other metadata like ratings in the photos themselves (see a very similar question about photos here).
I'd like to know if the ...
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Per-file volume adjustment in VLC
I used to listen music using iTunes, which allowed me to adjust the audio volume on a per-file basis:
Get Info --> Options --> Volume Adjustment (-100% <---> None <---> +100%)
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How to make Handbrake preserve capture time / creation time?
Handbrake is an awesome video compression tool, but it doesn't seem to preserve the original capture time after a video is compressed. Any idea how to fix this?
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Using PDF MetaData to rename PDFs in MAC OS X
I have a number of PDFs that I downloaded from JStor. They come with unhelpful numeric filenames, but often there is at least a title if not the author in the metadata.
How do I batch rename a number ...
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Unable to change metadata of m4v video file
I want to change title of a m4v video. I have tried Media Information (Ctrl+I) of VLC to change it, but its not working. I have also tried MetaX, but again no luck. I used both applications with ...
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Comments in mp3 files are seen on Mac OS but not on Windows
I have a .mp3 file with some metadata, among which a comment field with a value. What's strange is that the comment can be seen on Mac OS X (both in iTunes and in the Finder), but on Windows the field ...
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Add metadata for images as key/value pair?
I am trying to add metadata to images, and I want it as key/value pairs. I know about the possibility to add keywords. But they are just a list of words. I would like to be able to add the metadata as ...
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Is there any way to retrieve metadata from an AIFF file in Ubuntu?
I am trying to get the metadata from AIFF files in Ubuntu. I want the album art as well as the title and artist.
Is there any utility or solution available to do this?
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When spliting MP4s with ffmpeg how do I include metadata?
I have a few MP4s that i want to upload to my flickr account but they have a maximum size of 500mb as mine is only about 550 i was planing to simply split them in half then upload them, but i want to ...
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What metadata entry tools exist? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
“Universal Metadata” tagging for various file types
I have a collection of files, and I would like to capture manually-entered metadata about them. I can imagine tools ...
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How to setup DLNA sorting
What is the best way using a windows server (as the source) to provide an easy to access listing of available videos for use by DLNA enabled television sets (specifically Samsung)?
I've created ...
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How to translate wacky metadata to readable format?
This is a song metadata i have (on Winamp):
I'm trying to figure which artist it really is. Tried googling/google translate, but couldn't find the artist/title in english. Although, one page showed ...
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How can I add metadata to PNG images on OS X/Linux?
Is there a program for OS X and Linux that I can use to add Textual information to PNG image files? Something for Windows also, maybe?
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Why do the privileges disappear in meta? [closed]
Ok, these are multiple questions, but each is so closely related to the other so I put them in one post.
I am new to SuperUser, but not to StackExchange.
These probably all belong in meta, but I am ...
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Metada for images [closed]
i would like to develop an application to edit image's metadata, I know there are free tools for this out there but I would like to research into this and develop my own application. I am not software ...
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Generating media DVD ISO's from video files and metadata
I have several videos that have been organized using Media Center Master to include metadata, cover art, etc. I would like to turn them into ISO files in bulk, so that I can later burn them to DVDs.
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How Much Space Do Empty Files Consume?
Windows reports both, empty files and folders, as taking up 0 bytes. Surely it takes something to store the file name, attributes, date [created/modified/accessed] etc.
How is this weighted?
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List full timestamps of files in a tarball
I have a large tar archive and want to see the exact (nanosecond) timestamps that are stored for each file in the archive. In case it's relevant, the tarball is in POSIX-2001 format (tar ...
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Query exchange for sent item count by folder
I have a large Exchange server with many hundreds of thousands of emails in thousands of folders.
I would like to generate a list of how many emails have been sent, by user, for a subset of the ...
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GUIs treat /tmp as a file
A friend was having trouble using cp to copy a disk image (a sparsebundle to be precise). I figured out that the line he was using copied all of the /contents/ (sparsebundles are packages, i.e. ...
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How to address potential data corruption of a given file while maintaining efficient usage of disk space? [closed]
Given the physical environment where the data stored on a digital medium may be prone to a certain extent to become incorrect in multiple places, describe in detail a way to address this issue by ...
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Deleting okular metafiles (kde/Linux)
Is there any reason why I can't/shouldn't periodically delete all the files in ~/.kde/share/apps/okular/docdata?
I only use okular to view files. I don't manipulate them in okular.
I have read ...
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change photos metadata by given time
My camera's batteries run out and the stored date was wrong and the I have now about 100 photos with an incorrect date. Is there any app that can change the photos date? Something that can calculate ...
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Strip metadata from all formats with FFmpeg
How can I remove all metadata from all formats via FFmpeg?
I can just set special metadata for each format per man ffmpeg. Any option or method to clear all metadata and strip media from all metadata ...
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How can I edit timestamps of MP4 videos?
I am having difficulties with timestamps of my videos. They were originally created with Windows Movie Maker in WMV format and I manually set their creation date. Later I migrated to Ubuntu and ...
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Different Spotlight kMDItemKind metadata values for same file on different drives
I have run into an issue where I find the same video file to have different values for the kMDItemkind Spotlight metadata depending on the drive it resides on (same machine, of course), which makes ...
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When I order files by an unusual meta column, does the computer read headers of the files or just a structured list like a data table?
Is there a file system which will reduce the need for indexing files and saves the meta headers automatically on the disk? It would work like a hardware acceleration for indexing all files for some ...
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Is there a command analogous to afinfo for videos on a Mac OS X?
OS X has the command afinfo to fetch audio file info. Is there a similar command to fetch video file info for videos (mov,m4v) other than the mdls command?
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Apply metadata to files based on OCR of their content
Essentially I'm looking for a tool (Windows/Mac) that will allow me the following workflow:
Scan ALL my documents into a folder (200-300 scanned images)
run the tool that will go through all the ...
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Command line tool to write flac, ogg vorbis and mp3 id3v2 meta data?
Is there any command line tool that can write all three formats/containers? I've already searched but could not find anything that does the job.
So far I'm using vorbiscomment, metaflac and id3tool ...
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What was scientifically shown to support productivity when structural organizing/accessing file and folders? [closed]
My Personal Information Management problem
I have gathered terabytes of data but it has became a habit to store files and folders to the same folder, that folder could be kind of seen as a Inbox ...
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OS X mdls command gives “null” in output
I have bash script that utilizes the Mac based mdls command in a shell script to generate a metadata report for media files. When the script works the output looks like this:
1) [./test1.mov]
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