Tag: METADATA

Song Sergeant is an OS X app that cleans up problems with your iTunes library. Duplicate songs, orphaned files in your iTunes folders, and missing songs are no match for Song Sergeant. It scans and fixes your library, allowing you to manually decide what to do about each individual file, or just taking quick, ruthless automagical action if you prefer. If you don't make any manual decisions, ...

Meta-iPod is a Windows app that can clean up and repair the metadata on your iTunes songs - stuff like star ratings and album artwork - with a whole bunch of useful automated features. It can find and delete duplicates and locate tracks on your computer that aren't in your iTunes library. It can also fix files that have been moved from their original location and thus unlinked from iTunes (the ...

Every Word file can contain a fairly large amount of metadata. This is stuff like the revision logs (for tracking changes), name of the author, last time edited, and last time printed. All that information is there for a reason, but embarrassing incidents have been known to occur when people don't realize what they're sending in their metadata. If you want to avoid that, you could delete it all by ...

With the recent release of Microsoft Photo Info, your photo's EXIF data is just a hover away. This little software add-in allows you to view, add or modify common metadata that is stored in digital photos. Once installed you'll find a new "Photo Info" option when you right-click supported image files in Explorer. Microsoft Photo Info lets you work with individual or groups of images, which is a ...

According to CNet News.com, Gartner is warning that the advanced metadata functinality in Windows Vista, intended to allow users to better organize their files, could pose a security hazard. The leader on the story pretty much sums it up: "Windows Vista will improve search functionality on a PC by letting users tag files with metadata, but those tags could cause unwanted and embarrassing ...

Should we really trust a guy named Jackass JoeJoe? Well I did, and was amply rewarded. Anyone working with digital media assets for one reason or another winds up with gaggles of files. Renaming those, or changing anything en masse is a total chore. Thus, we have a slew of renaming utilities out there. I tried Rename Master, which is totally free (Windows only), and loved it. Version 2.5 was just ...