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DSPaul / COMPASS

TTRPG resource manager, bringing all your books, maps, etc. in one place.
https://www.compassapp.info
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Saving metadata in the files #38

Closed Mifgan closed 1 year ago

Mifgan commented 1 year ago

Is there a possibility to let COMPASS save the metadata you make in the application (tags, adding of publisher, author, ISBN etc) in the file's metadata?

DSPaul commented 1 year ago

Technically you could but the metadata fields of a file depends on the file type so COMPASS would need to create custom metadata fields on the file which other programs aren't aware of and therefore cannot read/interpret so I don't really see the value this provides. I found this project which already does this for video, audio and images so it's not impossible but I don't plan on doing this anytime soon.

Mifgan commented 1 year ago

Fair enough. The idea behind it was sorting files in COMPASS and then accessing it via a web client of an other software to be able to use it from several devices (that aren't Windows limited).

DSPaul commented 1 year ago

Well the problem there is that the custom metadata fields, if I was planning to go that route, is file system dependent and MacOS and Linux use a different filesystem from windows so you would run into problems there as well.

Mifgan commented 1 year ago

Hmm, very true.

Mifgan commented 1 year ago

Feature request can be closed for me. :)