Best practices for recording photo metadata? What I'd like to be able to do inside, plus many questions about what's possible today or likely to be possible in the future. [more inside]
posted by DevilsAdvocate on Oct 30, 2009 - 7 answers

Need more metadata for my music. I'm looking for track-by-track recording date/performers/composer/etc. mainly for jazz albums. Is there a source out there? [more inside]
posted by imposster on Oct 28, 2009 - 5 answers

Organizing a music library for the (very) OCD? Help me put every ID3 in its place! [more inside]
posted by dantekgeek on Sep 29, 2009 - 15 answers

Is there some preference or setting I am missing? Why does my metadata in Aperture get overlaid twice? [more inside]
posted by kenbennedy on Aug 12, 2009 - 3 answers

Let's say I wanted to educate myself to sort-of the equivalent of a Bachelor's Degree in Information and Data (not sure what the real degree would be called, but you get the idea). What should be in my syllabus? [more inside]
posted by Deathalicious on Jul 26, 2009 - 13 answers

How do I strip absolutely all information (metadata, file created on, etc) data from a digital picture? [more inside]
posted by Damn That Television on Jul 5, 2009 - 12 answers

Generating XML documents help? I work with the county health department, and have been asked to come up with a way to create, store and manipulate metadata for various datasets we store internally on a network drive. Basically I think the simplest thing to do is to create an xml file stored in the same directory with any dataset. Preferably I can do this with infopath 2003 or free software, and using the Dublin Core standard for metadata. I've seen the 5 year old answers on Dublin Core Metadata from this Ask, but I need to let my coworkers create the data first, and that mostly covers storage/database solutions. Looking through various DC list archives hasn't been helpful. [more inside]
posted by gryftir on Apr 28, 2009 - 15 answers

How do I best encode the intended audience of a photograph inside a JPG file? [more inside]
posted by hoverboards don't work on water on Feb 20, 2009 - 8 answers

Is there any good, free UNIX/Linux software you can suggest for keeping a searchable index of removable media? [more inside]
posted by tommorris on Nov 25, 2008 - 7 answers

metadata metafilter ! How to correctly keep updated metadata in our documents at work after departments change their names? [more inside]
posted by alchemist on Nov 24, 2008 - 4 answers

I'm a playa. Well, not really. But how do I keep track of people I talk to from dating sites - what IM client do I need? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Oct 12, 2008 - 8 answers

I have a MediaWiki wiki that I've started. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to automatically generate meta keywords and meta descriptions from the articles. What is the best solution for this? I tried to find out how Wikipedia does it, but my Google Fu is weak.
posted by entropicamericana on Oct 2, 2008 - 1 answer

How can I move my favorite podcast (which I download manually, because the iTunes feed is a week behind) from the Music Library to the Podcast Library, if for no other reason than it's easier to get to it once I transfer to my iPod? [more inside]
posted by sjuhawk31 on Jul 21, 2008 - 5 answers

Is it possible to (and how would you) add shutter speed, f-stop, ISO, lens, and camera metadata to scanned files saved in a .psd format? [more inside]
posted by ztdavis on Jun 18, 2008 - 3 answers

Do we know of a web service where I can feed a song title and artist in the front, and get one single canonical answer to the question of when it was first released? [more inside]
posted by genghis on Apr 16, 2008 - 6 answers

How can I edit EXIF orientation meta data? [more inside]
posted by yerfatma on Apr 11, 2008 - 3 answers

Movie organizing software for directories of film files/subs/etc? [more inside]
posted by beerbajay on Apr 5, 2008 - 1 answer

Dear AskMeFi Librarians and Librarian-Wannabes, can you please explain-slash-distinguish between MARCXML, MODS, METS and EAD in terms of why one is better (or even different) than the other? [more inside]
posted by 10ch on Apr 1, 2008 - 6 answers

How do I nicely organize my library of 80 gigs of MP3s? [more inside]
posted by Nelson on Feb 18, 2008 - 27 answers

Suggestions for Photo Management Software Shared Over a Network? [more inside]
posted by macinchik on Feb 16, 2008 - 1 answer

How do I upload my digital photos to Flickr and make sure the metadata stays intact? [more inside]
posted by Smarson on Dec 28, 2007 - 6 answers

I need an equivalent of Flickr or Picasa Web Albums that can be hosted locally on our network. [more inside]
posted by daviss on Nov 29, 2007 - 8 answers

Microsoft provides this for Windows users to strip metadata from MS Word files, but does not provide one for Mac Word users. Anyone know of a plugin/AppleScript or application that will do this on a Mac?
posted by eustacescrubb on Oct 8, 2007 - 1 answer

I rate my music on my ipod as I listen through it, and I'm trying to get several thousand ratings from the ipod back into itunes. It doesn't seem like itunes can do this for me. (That's stupid!) I found this script, which also has failed to work for me. Need help using the script, or itunes, or finding another alternative. [more inside]
posted by lockse on Oct 7, 2007 - 12 answers

Is there a way to search PDF metadata in Vista? [more inside]
posted by chrisWhite on Aug 16, 2007 - 3 answers

We love to take pictures. Lots of them. And we want to love to tag them with metadata. XMP, IPTC, doesn't matter, as long as the metadata is IN THE FILE (for JPGs) and not in a sidecar file. We also love sharing our photos with family and friends (and just family and friends, thank you). [more inside]
posted by Merdryn on Aug 11, 2007 - 7 answers

Networked repository for Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents, full-text indexed and tagged. Does it exist? [more inside]
posted by Alterscape on May 31, 2007 - 4 answers

Can someone with an Apple TV tell me something? When you listen to a music track on your Apple TV, does the play count of the song in the relevant iTunes library increase?
posted by ascullion on May 14, 2007 - 4 answers

Is there a way to get my Mac Finder (10.3.9) to see mp3 data such as bitrate and tag metadata? [more inside]
posted by p3t3 on Feb 11, 2007 - 5 answers

Help with tagging home movie video files, not DVDs. [more inside]
posted by Pastabagel on Jan 4, 2007 - 4 answers

Is there a program that can extract all of the metadata including ISRC codes from an audio CD in my drive? [more inside]
posted by gfrobe on Oct 19, 2006 - 2 answers

GPS with extremely large memory? I'm looking for something pretty much exactly like the Sony GPS-CS1 (reviewed here )... but that will allow me to download the data to a Mac when I'm done. (Though the GPS-CS1 mounts as a regular drive on a PC, it won't on a Mac...) [more inside]
posted by dmd on Sep 26, 2006 - 3 answers

Is there any kind of API for All Music Guide (if there is it seems to be undocumented), or has anyone written any kind of 3rd party scraper based API for it? Are there any alternate music data sources on the web of the same quality that do have APIs? [more inside]
posted by shinji_ikari on Sep 15, 2006 - 5 answers

I am moving almost 7 gb of Iphoto pictures to my wife's pc laptop/picasa. If I drag my photos library to my ipod (which has been formatted to work on her pc as well) will any metadata, such as the date the picture was taken, be transferred? Or should I just rename all of my photos to the date they were taken before doing the transfer? Has anyone else done this? [more inside]
posted by craniac on Jul 9, 2006 - 10 answers

Does the JPG description information work in Windows XP? [more inside]
posted by starvingartist on Jun 28, 2006 - 10 answers

What's the easiest way to extra data about my emails? It's for the purposes of making a visualization along similar lines to Mountain. [more inside]
posted by bruceyeah on May 15, 2006 - 7 answers

My company has ~6 departments. Each department takes photos, and then stashes them all over the available network shares, such that they know where any given photo is. What we need is some company-wide means of organizing these assets in an intuitively searchable way. Suggestions? [more inside]
posted by everichon on Apr 26, 2006 - 8 answers

Anyone know of a way to backup/restore the $Secure metadata file in NTFS? Preferably something that wouldn't require a full backup/restore of the entire file system?
posted by yeoz on Jul 14, 2005 - 4 answers

I have a relatively large music library stored on my file-server. Can anybody recommend a server-side tool to help me keep the files and their metadata organized? [more inside]
posted by Eamon on Jun 15, 2005 - 7 answers

DVD ReEditing woes: The video stream from a DVD has bad metadata, and repairing the m2v file I've ripped hasn't worked. [more inside]
posted by too many notes on Mar 10, 2005 - 1 answer

I've decided to start editing metadata in my photographs. I want to add keywords via Photoshop CS. My question is, if I add keywords to a JPG, when I save it, will it recompress the image and thus degrade it?
posted by keswick on Mar 4, 2005 - 12 answers

How can one (easily?) identify a location based upon a single image? [more inside]
posted by Chunder on Feb 18, 2005 - 8 answers

How can I make changes to ID3 track tag metadata with iTunes 4.7 on WinXP and have those changes stick? [mi] [more inside]
posted by grimmelm on Dec 30, 2004 - 13 answers

I'm considering writing a metawishlist program that would allow you to save items, descriptions and price information from a bookmarklet and add metadata/tags ala del.icio.us to your items. I find that I have a lot of things I run across that I want, and so I have wishlists scattered from Amazon to ThinkGeek, and lots of other items on sites that don't have wishlist functionality that I lose track of... I think that a central repository would be cool, and the social aspect might have possibilities also. What do you guys think? What other features should something like this have to make it a good app?
posted by hansbleep on Dec 20, 2004 - 18 answers

Is it possible to get book descriptions electronically from a variety of publishers...for free? [you bet there's more inside] [more inside]
posted by cmonkey on Sep 3, 2004 - 6 answers

PlaylistFilter: I find Winamp's native playlist manager too restricted. Ideally, I want a plugin/player with a playlist module that can accomodate trees and metadata; the extreme case being where I can have an arbitrary number of fields (incl. trackname, artist, genre, "mood"...etc) and then pass it through selection filters (all Classical which are AT MOST 3 mins AND NOT baroque AND soothing...etc). Of course, this is kinda the ideal case. What's the best realistic solution? (I don't mind switching players).
posted by Gyan on Aug 18, 2004 - 11 answers

Help! Somebody in the office was working on a Word Perfect document and accidentally saved over the contents with a blank document. Google only provides info on corrupted or deleted files (without much info on Word Perect). It seems like this would be recoverable metadata, but I know nothing about Word Perfect. [more inside]
posted by ajr on Aug 9, 2004 - 9 answers

What to do about the compilations? I've recently started using iTunes for my mp3-listening activities, and finally have a use for metadata tags other than Artist/Song/Album (dynamic playlists make my socks roll up and down, up and down). But how to deal with greatest-hits collections and other compilations, where the album-release date has nothing to do with when the song came out? Do people (that is, you) actually look up the year for each song? If so, where? If not, what do you do?
posted by gleuschk on Mar 9, 2004 - 13 answers

What's the best way to store Dublin Core metadata? [more inside]
posted by IshmaelGraves on Feb 18, 2004 - 6 answers

Does anyone know of a program that will display metadata from Microsoft Office files (such as revisions from Autosave, track changes, etc.)? My searching has documented the range of metadata that is available and I have located numerous programs for removing the data, but nothing that will allow me to retrieve the data easily. I am looking for something a little more advanced than Notepad.
posted by ajr on Jan 31, 2004 - 6 answers