This app is a great effort toward replacing the meta data editors like "Identify 2", the only issue I have with the current version, is that most of us that have been using meta data editors like "Identify 2" are use to Season and episode data being entered automatically from the file name.
The file names when properly named,
Example: ("Series name" S01E13 - "Episode Title")
Real Example: Elementary S01E13 - The Red Team
Identify 2 would take the above example and enter the Series name, enter it into the series field, then take the Season, (S01) strip away the S and enter the Season number in the Season field and then take the Episode , (E13) strip away the E and enter the Episode number in the Episode field.
This would save allot of time for the user having to enter this manually, as MetaZ has you do it currently. When you are entering single episodes of several TV shows, this becomes very tedious. User intervention should not be needed.
One other advantage having TV show episodes being properly named as above, Identify was able to automatically recognize and tell the difference between movies and TV shows, again making automatic lookup much quicker, where MetaZ makes you tell it what the file type is, ether by setting what your working with in the preferences or when opening a new file directly, (telling it what file type it is.) Automatic file type identification, because of proper file name syntax, (whether the file name does or does not have "Season/Episode" info, (S01E13)) would make look up for movies and TV shows at the same time, very quick!
Example: No Series/Episode file syntax = Movie ("Movie Name")
Example: Does have Series/Episode file syntax = TV Show, ("Series Name" "S01E13" - "Episode number")
The file naming convention S00E00 is the most commonly used. Plex servers use it exclusively, (for TV shows) as well as Identify 2 meta data editor, (no longer supported by the author for the Macintosh, some bug a boo about how Apple security of the OS ticked them off.) Sad really, it was one of the best MetaData editors out there, very quick if you wanted to add meta data without having to fill-in fields manually. The files name, (using the "movie name" or "series name S00E00") was all that was needed to source 98% of the files it looked up.
One other thing it did very well, was it would append the existing file, not create a new file and then toss the original, much quicker when saving.
This app is a great effort toward replacing the meta data editors like "Identify 2", the only issue I have with the current version, is that most of us that have been using meta data editors like "Identify 2" are use to Season and episode data being entered automatically from the file name.
The file names when properly named, Example: ("Series name" S01E13 - "Episode Title") Real Example: Elementary S01E13 - The Red Team
Identify 2 would take the above example and enter the Series name, enter it into the series field, then take the Season, (S01) strip away the S and enter the Season number in the Season field and then take the Episode , (E13) strip away the E and enter the Episode number in the Episode field.
This would save allot of time for the user having to enter this manually, as MetaZ has you do it currently. When you are entering single episodes of several TV shows, this becomes very tedious. User intervention should not be needed.
One other advantage having TV show episodes being properly named as above, Identify was able to automatically recognize and tell the difference between movies and TV shows, again making automatic lookup much quicker, where MetaZ makes you tell it what the file type is, ether by setting what your working with in the preferences or when opening a new file directly, (telling it what file type it is.) Automatic file type identification, because of proper file name syntax, (whether the file name does or does not have "Season/Episode" info, (S01E13)) would make look up for movies and TV shows at the same time, very quick!
Example: No Series/Episode file syntax = Movie ("Movie Name") Example: Does have Series/Episode file syntax = TV Show, ("Series Name" "S01E13" - "Episode number")
The file naming convention S00E00 is the most commonly used. Plex servers use it exclusively, (for TV shows) as well as Identify 2 meta data editor, (no longer supported by the author for the Macintosh, some bug a boo about how Apple security of the OS ticked them off.) Sad really, it was one of the best MetaData editors out there, very quick if you wanted to add meta data without having to fill-in fields manually. The files name, (using the "movie name" or "series name S00E00") was all that was needed to source 98% of the files it looked up.
One other thing it did very well, was it would append the existing file, not create a new file and then toss the original, much quicker when saving.