Metadata import / export

chhutchins commented 4 years ago

I don't see a metadata import/export function. Does one exist? It would be nice to be able to do a few things:

Import metadata from web scrapes
Import metadata that already exists as used in another media organizer
Export metadata to be used in a hub on another computer

Perhaps there's a work-around or interface that can be used without making software changes?

cal2195 commented 4 years ago

Hi @chhutchins! 😄

Some of this functionality exists, although not as complete as I'd like it:

Export metadata to be used in a hub on another computer

The metadata is stored as plain text json file (the .vha file), so you could transfer that to another computer if you'd like, or mess around with the file yourself in an text editor/script.

Import metadata from web scrapes

This is something I'm very interested in, and I've even implemented myself on my own branch - I haven't gotten around to merging it yet, but if there's interest, I certainly will. See #178. The basic gist is that you can write your own web scraper to save .tag files to your library, and it will import them automatically as tags. This could be expanded to more metatdata if required. 😄

Import metadata that already exists as used in another media organizer

This might be harder, and less useful as not everyone would use insert other media organiser here. What had you in mind?

chhutchins commented 4 years ago

Hi @chhutchins!

Some of this functionality exists, although not as complete as I'd like it:

Export metadata to be used in a hub on another computer

The metadata is stored as plain text json file (the .vha file), so you could transfer that to another computer if you'd like, or mess around with the file yourself in an text editor/script.

I take that to mean that I can programmatically change the tags and other metadata by modifying the JSON using python/pandas or another tool.

Import metadata from web scrapes

This is something I'm very interested in, and I've even implemented myself on my own branch - I haven't gotten around to merging it yet, but if there's interest, I certainly will. See #178. The basic gist is that you can write your own web scraper to save .tag files to your library, and it will import them automatically as tags. This could be expanded to more metatdata if required.

Thanks. I'll take a look at #178

Import metadata that already exists as used in another media organizer

This might be harder, and less useful as not everyone would use insert other media organiser here. What had you in mind?

I'm using jriver. I agree that it would be difficult and not very productive to write a custom interface for each "other" media organizer. It seems to me that if I can use JSON as a metadata input then I can accomplish what I want by writing something up in python. XML -> JSON -> .vha