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<blockquote data-quote="chefkoch" data-source="post: 969438" data-attributes="member: 10438"><p><strong>Which tagger do you use for modifying the tags of your music files (MP3 ID3, ....)?</strong></p><p><a href="http://www.mp3tag.de/en" target="_blank">Mp3tag</a>? <a href="http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Picard" target="_blank">MusicBrainz Picard</a>? <a href="https://www.team-mediaportal.com/mediaportal-tools/mptagthat" target="_blank">MPTagThat</a>? foobar? others, multiple ones, ...?</p><p> </p><p><strong>Why do you even tag your music files?</strong></p><p>Because you might want to have more metadata embedded to be identified correctly by different media players?</p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong>Editing meta data in video files?</strong></span></p><p>Why don't you put metadata like a movie's IMDB-id, or an episode's series name, season index and episode index in the tags of your video files?</p><p>Because:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">you use *.nfo files containing an IMDB-id for <strong>movies</strong>. fine, good way to make sure the file is being identified correctly. But do you create *.nfo files for all your series / episodes?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">you use a defined file/folder structure, which works in most cases. If you decide to change filenames, you need to make sure the definition is still be able to detect the information.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">you did not know that you are able to store a huge amount of metadata within your video files.</li> </ul><p><strong><span style="font-size: 15px">How can I tag my video files?</span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">I am mainly talking about Matroska files here: *.mkv & *.mk3d</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Tagging Matroska audio files *.mka is also possible, but not topic of this thread nor of this tool.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">It is also possible to tag *.mp4 or *.m4v files, but this is also not topic of this thread.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">For general information about the Matroska container, please take a look at their <a href="http://matroska.org/" target="_blank">official homepage</a> & <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matroska" target="_blank">wikipedia</a>.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Information about Matroska tagging can be found at <a href="http://matroska.org/technical/specs/tagging/index.html" target="_blank">http://matroska.org/technical/specs/tagging/index.html</a> .</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">For muxing (converting) *.avi, *.mpg, *.flv, *.mp4 files and many other into Matroska I recommend the <a href="http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/" target="_blank">MkvToolnix</a>.</span></p><p> </p><p><strong>Difficulties to edit Matroska tags:</strong></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 12px">While having these xml files as tag file format, it is very flexible and extensible (You can include in your video files almost any metadata you want to), creating/editing those files is not very comfortable.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">After the xml has been embedded within the *.mkv file, you can not change it directly.</li> </ul><p><strong>The following tools can be used to edit Matroska tags manually:</strong></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 12px">Extracting (reading) xml tags from Matroska files can be done by <a href="http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/doc/mkvextract.html" target="_blank">mkvextract.exe</a>, which is included in the MkvToolnix.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 12px">Notepad (better <a href="http://notepad-plus-plus.org" target="_blank">Notepad++</a>) for modifying the xml file.</span></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><span style="font-size: 12px">Writing xml tags back to Matroska files can be done by <a href="http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/doc/mkvpropedit.html" target="_blank">mkvpropedit.exe</a> without the need to remux a file. This is done in less the a second.</span></li> </ul><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 12px">Seems it is everything possible already. What is it about MkvTagger now?</span></span></strong></p><p>MkvTagger is simply supporting you with:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">reading existing xml tags from MKV files</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">modifying the xml tags</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">writing them back into MKV file</li> </ul><p><span style="font-size: 12px">by executing the previously mentioned tools mkvextract.exe and mkvpropedit.exe and creating well-formed xml files containing your metadata, which you defined in the MatroskaTagger user interface.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">The download of the tool is attached to this post.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">The tool is still work in progress and it's GUI is not beautified, yet.</span></p><p>The are still a lot of tags unused and not implemented, yet. New ones will be added from time to time. Missing ones can be added manually in the preview window of the new tag file.</p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #ff9900"><strong>Before requesting a change or feature you should know that:</strong></span></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I won't include a feature to mux non-MKV files into MKV-files. This should be done manually to select audio stream languages and other properties or merge splitted video files into one MKV, etc.<br /> Take a look at <a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/members/lehmden.109222/" target="_blank">Lehmden</a>'s <a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/video2mkv-convert-a-new-app-to-remuxx-all-your-videos-to-mkv-with-a-single-click.116946/" target="_blank">Video2MKV tool</a> for this task.</li> </ul><p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Known issues:</span></strong></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Certification is not retrieved from theMovieDb.org</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">a lot of tags missing for musicvideos</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">SORT_WITH sub tag is not supported (i.e. Title sort by)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">tags within an ORIGINAL tag are not supported, yet (i.e. original movie title)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">CHARACTER (role) is not supported for actors</li> </ul><p>Screenshots of the application:</p><p>[ATTACH]122958[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]122959[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]122960[/ATTACH]</p><p>Screenshot of tagging a MusicVideo:</p><p>[ATTACH]123524[/ATTACH]</p><p>Screenshots of MediaPortal 2 after reading them:</p><p>[ATTACH]123004[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]123005[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]123006[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]123007[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]123008[/ATTACH]</p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>Update 2013-04-03:</strong></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>[ATTACH]125275[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]125276[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]125277[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]125278[/ATTACH] </strong></span><strong><span style="color: #ff0000">[ATTACH]125279[/ATTACH]</span></strong><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>[ATTACH]125280[/ATTACH]</strong></span><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>[ATTACH]125281[/ATTACH]</strong></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chefkoch, post: 969438, member: 10438"] [B]Which tagger do you use for modifying the tags of your music files (MP3 ID3, ....)?[/B] [URL='http://www.mp3tag.de/en']Mp3tag[/URL]? [URL='http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Picard']MusicBrainz Picard[/URL]? [URL='https://www.team-mediaportal.com/mediaportal-tools/mptagthat']MPTagThat[/URL]? foobar? others, multiple ones, ...? [B]Why do you even tag your music files?[/B] Because you might want to have more metadata embedded to be identified correctly by different media players? [SIZE=4][B]Editing meta data in video files?[/B][/SIZE] Why don't you put metadata like a movie's IMDB-id, or an episode's series name, season index and episode index in the tags of your video files? Because: [LIST] [*]you use *.nfo files containing an IMDB-id for [B]movies[/B]. fine, good way to make sure the file is being identified correctly. But do you create *.nfo files for all your series / episodes? [*]you use a defined file/folder structure, which works in most cases. If you decide to change filenames, you need to make sure the definition is still be able to detect the information. [*]you did not know that you are able to store a huge amount of metadata within your video files. [/LIST] [B][SIZE=4]How can I tag my video files?[/SIZE][/B] [SIZE=3]I am mainly talking about Matroska files here: *.mkv & *.mk3d[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Tagging Matroska audio files *.mka is also possible, but not topic of this thread nor of this tool.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]It is also possible to tag *.mp4 or *.m4v files, but this is also not topic of this thread.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]For general information about the Matroska container, please take a look at their [URL='http://matroska.org/']official homepage[/URL] & [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matroska']wikipedia[/URL].[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]Information about Matroska tagging can be found at [url]http://matroska.org/technical/specs/tagging/index.html[/url] .[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]For muxing (converting) *.avi, *.mpg, *.flv, *.mp4 files and many other into Matroska I recommend the [URL='http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/']MkvToolnix[/URL].[/SIZE] [B]Difficulties to edit Matroska tags:[/B] [LIST] [*][SIZE=3]While having these xml files as tag file format, it is very flexible and extensible (You can include in your video files almost any metadata you want to), creating/editing those files is not very comfortable.[/SIZE] [*]After the xml has been embedded within the *.mkv file, you can not change it directly. [/LIST] [B]The following tools can be used to edit Matroska tags manually:[/B] [LIST] [*][SIZE=3]Extracting (reading) xml tags from Matroska files can be done by [URL='http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/doc/mkvextract.html']mkvextract.exe[/URL], which is included in the MkvToolnix.[/SIZE] [*][SIZE=3]Notepad (better [URL='http://notepad-plus-plus.org']Notepad++[/URL]) for modifying the xml file.[/SIZE] [*][SIZE=3]Writing xml tags back to Matroska files can be done by [URL='http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/mkvtoolnix/doc/mkvpropedit.html']mkvpropedit.exe[/URL] without the need to remux a file. This is done in less the a second.[/SIZE] [/LIST] [B][SIZE=3][SIZE=3]Seems it is everything possible already. What is it about MkvTagger now?[/SIZE][/SIZE][/B] MkvTagger is simply supporting you with: [LIST] [*]reading existing xml tags from MKV files [*]modifying the xml tags [*]writing them back into MKV file [/LIST] [SIZE=3]by executing the previously mentioned tools mkvextract.exe and mkvpropedit.exe and creating well-formed xml files containing your metadata, which you defined in the MatroskaTagger user interface.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]The download of the tool is attached to this post.[/SIZE] [SIZE=3]The tool is still work in progress and it's GUI is not beautified, yet.[/SIZE] The are still a lot of tags unused and not implemented, yet. New ones will be added from time to time. Missing ones can be added manually in the preview window of the new tag file. [COLOR=#ff9900][B]Before requesting a change or feature you should know that:[/B][/COLOR] [LIST] [*]I won't include a feature to mux non-MKV files into MKV-files. This should be done manually to select audio stream languages and other properties or merge splitted video files into one MKV, etc. Take a look at [URL='https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/members/lehmden.109222/']Lehmden[/URL]'s [URL='https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/video2mkv-convert-a-new-app-to-remuxx-all-your-videos-to-mkv-with-a-single-click.116946/']Video2MKV tool[/URL] for this task. [/LIST] [B][COLOR=#ff0000]Known issues:[/COLOR][/B] [LIST] [*]Certification is not retrieved from theMovieDb.org [*]a lot of tags missing for musicvideos [*]SORT_WITH sub tag is not supported (i.e. Title sort by) [*]tags within an ORIGINAL tag are not supported, yet (i.e. original movie title) [*]CHARACTER (role) is not supported for actors [/LIST] Screenshots of the application: [ATTACH]122958[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]122959[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]122960[/ATTACH] Screenshot of tagging a MusicVideo: [ATTACH]123524[/ATTACH] Screenshots of MediaPortal 2 after reading them: [ATTACH]123004[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]123005[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]123006[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]123007[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]123008[/ATTACH] [COLOR=#ff0000][B]Update 2013-04-03:[/B][/COLOR] [COLOR=#ff0000][B][ATTACH]125275[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]125276[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]125277[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]125278[/ATTACH] [/B][/COLOR][B][COLOR=#ff0000][ATTACH]125279[/ATTACH][/COLOR][/B][COLOR=#ff0000][B][ATTACH]125280[/ATTACH][/B][/COLOR][COLOR=#ff0000][B][ATTACH]125281[/ATTACH][/B][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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