Is there an option to skip the encoding but keep the meta & renaming portion of the process?

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I'm new to Transcoding Machine but a long time user of Breakfast.

I've recently been questioning the entire need to transcode anything with the 
advent of apps like Plex, Boxee and the like that will play almost any filetype.

That said, I love the tagging, artwork, and renaming functionality of TM and 
Breakfast.  Is there a way to keep those, but turn off the handbrake 
transcoding portion of the app?  If not, can you recommend an alternative?

Thanks.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Ryan.Mac...@gmail.com on 10 Jul 2010 at 5:54

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You can tag files individually using the tag file button

One of the things I have been looking at in a future release is breaking up the 
transcoding from tagging, if we do get that implemented than in theory this 
would be possible in a batch mode.

Original comment by cory.powers@gmail.com on 10 Jul 2010 at 6:29

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Any chance for a batch tagging mode? 

Original comment by steve.cr...@gmail.com on 11 Oct 2010 at 11:35

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I would LOVE to see a "Batch Mode for Tagging" feature as well.  Doing them 
one-by-one is time-consuming.  Occasionally I have a folder of 
already-transcoded video files, and I want to automagically pull in the 
metadata using transcoding-machine and write the tags to the files... but it's 
tough to do them one at a time.

BTW, I absolutely LOVE transcoding-machine.  I'm a "Breakfast.app" convert, and 
before that I used a cobbled together set of scripts and folder actions in 
conjunction with VisualHub to accomplish something similar, but it was crude.  
transcoding-machine is absolutely indispensable!  Thank you so much!  I wish I 
could donate something to you for your efforts, and I wish I could find a way 
to donate my time for anything in the project, such as documentation, design, 
or even minor issue queue stuff (though I'm new to cocoa/objective-c).

Cheers!

Original comment by iamnosk...@gmail.com on 25 Oct 2010 at 12:43

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Original comment by cory.powers@gmail.com on 13 Apr 2011 at 12:49

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