

The use of Video File Tags does not absolve you from using the correct Folder and File structure for Movies, TV Shows and Music Videos as detailed in the previous pages. This page assumes this setting has been enabled. Kodi settings have the option to enable or disable the reading of video file tags at Settings > Media Settings > Videos > Use video tags. Not all of Kodi's NFO features are supported by embedded metadata yet, so many users may wish to still use the NFO method. nfo files will override embedded information. nfo files and embedded information if they choose "Local Information" rather than to use a scraper. Thus, one can still use a combination of. Local tag reading is bundled into the "Local Information" arm, as logically, metadata is still local (i.e not network-drawn) information. Kodi has two options for metadata import: using an online scraper or using local information, traditionally in the form of. (Pretty pictures!)ġ.1 How does it change/differ from the old model? Using ultra-high resolution artwork/cover images that looks nicer on newer HD displays. Since metadata travels with the media file, there is no longer a need for potentially thousands of these smaller files and can make directory management even easier. It does away with the need to have NFO files. It gives one more control over the metadata than scrapers do (as scrapers may misclassify media and pull the wrong data). Media may already contain useful metadata (the reverse however is also true - many files contain "junk" metadata, hence why the feature defaults to off). There are multiple reasons why one would want to use this feature:

the artist, album, year and genre of all files of an album typically have the same values and can be set together.
#Metaz for linux full#
full albums) without typing the same information again and again and have control over both ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags, then Kid3 is the program you are looking for.Ĭonvert between ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3 and ID3v2.4 tagsĮdit tags in MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV and AIFF filesĮdit tags of multiple files, e.g. If you want to easily tag multiple MP3, Ogg/Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4/AAC, MP2, Speex, TrueAudio, WavPack, WMA, WAV and AIFF files (e.g. * Package available for GNU/Linux and Windows. * Written in C and uses GTK+ 2 for the GUI, * French, German, Russian, Dutch, Hungarian, Swedish, Italian, Japanese, Ukrainian, Czech, Spanish, Polish, Romanian, Danish, Greek, Brazilian Portuguese and Chinese translation languages, * A tree based browser or a view by Artist & Album, * Ability to open a directory or a file with an external program,ĬDDB support using and servers (manual and automatic search), * Ability to process fields of tag and file name (convert letters into uppercase, downcase. * Auto tagging: parse filename and directory to complete automatically the fields (using masks), * Can edit more tag fields : Title, Artist, Album, Disc Album, Year, Track Number, Genre, Comment, Composer, Original Artist/Performer, Copyright, URL, Encoder name and attached Picture, * View, edit, write tags of MP3, MP2 files (ID3 tag with pictures), FLAC files (FLAC Vorbis tag), Ogg Vorbis files (Ogg Vorbis tag), MP4/AAC (MP4/AAC tag), MusePack, Monkey's Audio files and WavPack files (APE tag), Retrieves cover art images from the following sources:ĮasyTAG is a utility for viewing and editing tags. Retrieves TV show info from the following sources:
#Metaz for linux movie#
Retrieves Movie info from the following sources: Utilizes built-in AtomicParsley CLI as its primary tagging engine

Has a near 100% auto-lookup success rate for tagging information Utilizes built-in Handbrake 0.9.4 CLI to do it’s encoding magic Simple single-window interface with plain, easy to understand labels.ĭVD Video_TS folders created by MacTheRipperīlu-ray MKV High Definition videos created by MakeMKV Handles all iPad and Apple TV display information for your favorite movie or TV show.įully implements the elusive HD tag for HD-encoded videos. Version 2.0 now includes video encoding and extremely accurate lookup and tagging… all in one step.Įncodes and tags movies that are viewable on the new Apple iPad. It utilizes the AtomicParsley command line application as its primary tagging engine, but tries to seek a ‘middle ground’ between Lostify’s simple, effective one-file-at-a-time approach and MetaX’s full-featured powerful multi-file multiple-tag approach.ĭesigned specifically for use with the new Apple iPad and Apple TV, Vidalin allows you to add titles, descriptions, actors, movie poster art, ratings, etc. Vidalin is an M4V (MP4) video tag editor.
