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It's sad that Zune had the superior software, but Apple won out with iTunes despite its bloat, lack of polish, and interface unchanged since 2001.

It's a shame, really, since Zune let me get all of that meta data and more with just a simple search - it accounted for international releases too, something iTunes still doesn't do. I'm hoping that Apple opens their metadata up to users in an easier to use format, but considering it's been almost a decade since the iTunes Store launched (it turns 10 on April 28, 2013), I doubt they'll open the gates as it were, not without some strong push from the community and/or content owners.

Iflicks windows metadata update#

Even AtomicParsely hasn't seen an update since 2006, to give you an idea how badly a solution is needed.

Iflicks windows metadata mac#

Any solution that did add metadata effectively is now either Mac only, or hasn't been updated in years. Apple seems to really want to keep detailed metadata locked in their ecosystem, and make editing iTunes metadata atoms as difficult as possible, to the point that they even use codes for certain ratings and information, rather than text it's heavily obfuscated, if largely deciphered by the community at this point.

Iflicks windows metadata tv#

In the end though, that's far from ideal and equally time consuming.Īnyone else have a recommendation for getting Apple's metadata atoms into my home-encoded files? Seeing large blank spaces on my Apple TV is really starting to grind against my OCD. One of my other thoughts would be to use the Zune app to grab the metadata from the Zune store, since Microsoft is all gung ho about sharing metadata from all regions with all regions (iTunes -still- doesn't get metadata for my Japanese and German CD rips, since I'm a US Store user), just as a starting point, then finding a way to write the rest of the data later. I kind of wish I could just tag the episode in iTunes it matches and Apple would fill in the blanks, but Apple is really protective of their metadata, unfortunately. I'm still searching on my end, but haven't had any luck for Windows applications either the applications don't work, or they grab the wrong metadata, or they don't write it properly.

Iflicks windows metadata free#

AtomicParseley can do that, but with 500+ files, even writing a batch script for it would take the better part of a month of my free time. I want to write directly to the metadata atoms Apple uses for its files, however, so iTunes can display things like parental control ratings and long/short description fields both in iTunes and to the AppleTV 2 v2. Getting metadata isn't really the problem, but you're on the right track with the EXIFTool solution. Outside of rebuying all my content from Apple (pass) just for a bunch of text, do any Windows users here know of ways to get this data and write it to a large number of files simultaneously? I'm really trying to avoid the one-at-a-time modification that the current command line fork of AtomicParsley requires (for both direct input and batch files), and I'm willing to compromise to an extent if I can find a program that can do most of what I need with minimal hand-holding. I want to make sure the entire iTunes library can be childproofed, and this is a really important part to that. Ideally, I want the ability to add all the relevant cast information, short and long synopsis (or longer than what iTunes allows you to enter manually), Series/Episode information and, this is the toughest part, I also want to add the suggested rating (TV-14, TV-PG, etc) for US Networks, even for content not currently on the iTunes store. I've also tried the dozens of GUIs for AtomicParsley, but they're all so old and outdated that they either fetch bad data, or don't write to half the atoms that iTunes supports. I've heard iFlicks will do it, but I don't own a Mac.

Iflicks windows metadata full#

The bulk (95%) are TV Shows, mainly anime, and I want to add the full suite of iTunes metadata to the files themselves (or at least my iTunes library), so the data can be parsed by my AppleTV and other iOS devices. It feels weird being on the asking end for a change, but I'm nearing the end of my rope here.Ĭurrently, I have ~500GB of videos in AppleTV 3 compatible format on a Windows PC, and all these videos need appropriate metadata.