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Inject Metadata into Files - Owner - 2023-10-05
When the first standardized DVDs from the old VCD’s and laser Discs appeared, I asked Production companies to put all Posters, People Pics, Story lines into the Digital files.
But they just put them into the ISO container saying the they can’t inject that data into MPEG2 Files.
Ok it’s now many years later and many production companies are still using ISO Mpeg2 or ISO Mpeg4 DVD’s with separate files.
However some smaller production companies do sell Movies in digital form with all the metadata in the file, brilliant! why can’t we make that the norm world wide.
Next Generation of Media Centres are now starting to be able to inject and change metadata in digital files.
The MKV container is still in development but no point waiting, we should use it now for injecting Metadata, as scraping is a pain and I still get wrong data from scraping.
Originally all my movies and TV shows for use with Media Centres were ISO’s, but that container while providing multiple languages, edits, bonus, extra, etc is not efficient and very bulky.
I converted most of my ISO’s to mp4, but I now have to scrap for metadata.
I am getting very poor results scraping, with about 1,000 files wrong for every 10,000 files scraped using Jellyfin, and about 500 wrong or skipped per 10,000 files with Kodi.
If the production companies would just put all the metadata into the file I would get accurate data and avoid scraping.
RE: Inject Metadata into Files - bitmap - 2023-10-05
You're looking for a media organization suite. Many exist. TinyMediaManager, Sonarr, Radarr, etc... They interface with official DBs, alert you to unexpected issues prior to scraping of data, allow you to format where metadata goes and in what formats (to an extent), and are highly customizable. There are lots of options. I would recommend investigating those tools.
RE: Inject Metadata into Files - Owner - 2023-10-06
Brilliant will try them, Thanks