[kwlug-disc] tool for editing movie meta-data?

[Chamunks]

https://github.com/Jellyfin/Jellyfin might help a bit.  It automatically
searches databases and installs the meta into the directory next to the
file if not into the file.

On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 2:29 PM CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Right, mkvtoolnix.  I forgot about that.  But now that you say the name my
> memory is coming back...
>
>
> On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 at 12:35, Charles M <chaslinux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Incidentally mkvpropedit is a part of mkvtoolnix, not handbrake-cli. It
>> worked perfectly and was a lot quicker than re-encoding the whole thing.
>> Thanks again Jeff!
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 12:24 PM Charles M <chaslinux at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Jeff, I'm already using handbrake-cli to shrink my Blu-ray files.
>>> This is really helpful!
>>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 16, 2018 at 12:04 PM CrankyOldBugger <
>>> crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I do the same thing often myself.. but there's an easy fix.  I actually
>>>> take a bit of time every few months or so and do my entire movie collection
>>>> in one big script, if fact.  But as I'm not as good at Bash, sed, awk,
>>>> etc., as I would like to be, I actually do a 'ls' of all of my movie
>>>> folders and dump that into a spreadsheet that I use each time to clean up
>>>> the listings.
>>>>
>>>> My objective here is to fix just the "Title" portion of the metadata.
>>>> I'm sure some googling can help you fix other aspects but I really hate it
>>>> when I see a movie in the television's listings with some meaningless title.
>>>>
>>>> The program you need, which I'm pretty sure comes with the CLI version
>>>> of handbrake, is mkvpropedit.
>>>>
>>>> Let's say I want to clean up my copy of the 1995 nerd classic
>>>> "Hackers".  The command is easy:
>>>>
>>>> mkvpropedit "Hackers (1995).mkv" -e info -s title="Hackers (1995)".mkv
>>>>
>>>> Where the first occurrence of "Hackers" is the actual filename, while
>>>> the second occurrence is the desired metadata title.  Writing the metadata
>>>> is pretty much instant.
>>>>
>>>> Now picture this as a long list of all of your movies and you can see
>>>> how you can clean up your entire collection in a matter of minutes.  Using
>>>> a spreadsheet allows me to pull the desired metadata out of the actual
>>>> filename.  But I'm sure the awk/sed/bash guys here could show how to do
>>>> this in one simple script...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, 16 Dec 2018 at 09:52, Charles M <chaslinux at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Does anyone know of a tool to edit movie meta-data, something like the
>>>>> ID3 tag editors for music?
>>>>>
>>>>> I just finished ripping a DVD with Handbrake and realized I didn't
>>>>> change the meta-data in Handbrake. When I play the movie it's got a
>>>>> different title at the top of the movie because I forgot to edit the
>>>>> meta-data.
>>>>>
>>>>> It doesn't really make sense to try to re-encode the movie with
>>>>> Handbrake, but it's the simplest way I know.
>>>>>
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