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drewnoakes / metadata-extractor

Extracts Exif, IPTC, XMP, ICC and other metadata from image, video and audio files
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Ability to add/update metadata #521

Closed cowwoc closed 3 years ago

cowwoc commented 3 years ago

Would you consider adding functionality to programmatically add/update metadata as opposed to just reading it?

jefftucker1952 commented 3 years ago

This has been discussed before:

https://github.com/drewnoakes/metadata-extractor/issues/14

cowwoc commented 3 years ago

Thank you for the pointer.

jefftucker1952 commented 3 years ago

Glad to help. I knew it rang a bell.

This comes up frequently, here and elsewhere. There's an unmet need out there for a really good app to enter metadata in existing fields, to add xmp fields, to do wholesale copying of data from one field to another, and so on. And I don't mean some API, or a command-line beast - I'm talking about something with a good, intuitive UI. Not easy to do, and probably not enough money in it to attract a developer, sadly.

DesertCookie commented 2 years ago

Would love to have this functionality as I have a few hundred photos that need their metadata copied from their source files, as the editing process erased them.