Questions tagged [metadata]
Metadata is commonly referred to as "data about data", and is often used for cataloging, indexing, and managing files in a computer.
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The "Dates modified" of folders synced to OneDrive changed to the syncing time. Can I reverse/stop this without OneDrive just readjusting them again?
The specific computer I'm talking about is a 2021 Lenovo Thinkpad T14s Gen 2 (AMD) with an AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U with Radeon Graphics processor at a nominal 2.30 GHz, 16 GB of RAM (of which 14.8 GB is ...
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Apps/program that add tags to JPG's metadata while keeping the last modified timestamp for either Android and Windows [closed]
I sort the images in my phone gallery according to last modified for convenience. But when I later add tags to them for easier search, that also alter the file's last modified timestamp, moving its ...
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How to add chapters, name audio streams and related metadata in one go with FFmpeg?
The metadata format of FFmpeg lets me add chapters to a video file. I have to feed the input file to FFmpeg with the -map_metadata parameter, and all works as expected.
In the FFmpeg documentation, ...
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CD metadata not retrievable with WMP
As of a few days ago Windows Media Player no longer retrieves CD metadata when ripping CDs. This is due to the disconnection of the server that used to store that data. There appears to be no timeline ...
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Extract Metadata "comment" from MP4 using ffmpeg
I am trying to use ffmpeg to extract the Metadata description from MP4 files.
I tried using this:
ffmpeg -i Video.mp4 -f ffmetadata in.txt
but this gave me all the metadata as in the below image
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FFMPEG: "Author" metadata cannot be assigned to a MP4 video file but "Artist" can. What am I doing wrong?
I am trying to assign my name in the "author" metadata tag of a video MP4 file before sending it to someone else. But I can't seem to make it work when I try to verify it afterwards. But it ...
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How to correctly rotate a video with displaymatrix metadata in FFmpeg 7?
I use ffmpeg to overlay data on videos taken with a GoPro 13. I have a set of images taken in other software, which ffmpeg overlays onto the video.
Everything worked fine with ffmpeg 6.1, but after ...
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Find jpg files without Keywords/Subject in Iptc/Xmp and copy them
I have 10s of thousands of JPG photos in multiple sub-folders under a single folder and quite a few of these picture files have no keywords in their metadata.
I want to find a way to scan through all ...
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How can I script filling in missing track number metadata to music files?
I have about 150 albums' worth of .mp3 files I ripped using abcde on Ubuntu 24.04 over a three-week period only to discover after the fact that abcde wasn't including track number metadata, so I can't ...
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Why doesn’t abcde rip track metadata automatically?
I recently spent three weeks ripping a large collection of CDs using abcde (Ubuntu 24.04). I've just discovered that none of them ripped with track metadata, so I can't play any of these albums ...
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Is it possible to set a starting time for a video in ffmpeg without encoding?
If you cut a video with ffmpeg without re-encoding, it will start at the last keyframe before the cut (or the next one after the cut depending on how you did it)
If you encode when you cut, the video ...
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Does copy-on-write (CoW) with BTRFS also apply to metadata such as last access time?
In other words, when I access a file on BTRFS, does information about the previous access time normally still exist somewhere on the file system for some time?
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Forensics to recover the second-to-last access timestamp of a file on BTRFS on HDD?
Does anyone know if there is some way to recover the access timestamp of my file on BTRFS, before the access timestamp which appears currently? Using HDD (not SSD).
Please let me know. I made no ...
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How to delete whole metadata from a foto file with FFmpeg?
Preliminary information: Because of the fact that the original example foto file is my private foto (for the following I will call it short Ofile) I used for this question a cutout:
of it (for the ...
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Sorting Files in Folder and Subfolders [closed]
I need a mean to sort files in the subfolders because it is taking too much time to sort it by folders. I have one folder containing subfolders and those subfolders have their own subfolders.
The tree ...
