In my quest to get a good collection of music video files going in freebox, I soon realized how much harder it is to get a video collection tagged and organized. The internet is full of tools to organize and tag music Files. Not so much for video files.
The MP4 file format has embedded ID3 tags just like MP3's. I've seen the other MP4 threads and know it's not supported yet. If the freebox config program DID supported MP4, we could tag and organize our video files the same way we do our MP3's.
Would it be hard to add this functionality to the freebox config? I would probably just batch covert all my video files to MP4 if my little dream would come true. ;)
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In a word, no it's to hard... In the future maybe...
Can beta_tagger be run from command line? If it can, I might be able to make some scripts that could loop through the collection and create tags with more than one folder at a time. Of course I'll share if I get something to work. ;D
I really need to recode the beta tagger. Problem is i lost the source code so i need to code it from the ground up again. Might be better adding some sort of method to go through sub dirs... I'll try and do something that runs from the command line and see what you can do with it. If you give me an example of what you want i will code something that does that.
Just getting it to search sub folders would be huge.
Additionally, I like how betatag has a couple of selectable "tag from file name" options. But if the user were able to enter a custom string name format it would be more powerful.
If i had a file structure like this:
\genre\artist\album\track.avi
I could put this in the "tag from name" field:
[<genre>\<artist>\<album>\<track>]
Or if my files were like this:
\genre\artist\album - track.avi
I could enter this:
[<genre>\<artist>\<album> -<track>]
You may have seen this in other programs before. Winamp, MediaMonkey, ...
As far as command line. Something like this would be cool.
betatag.exe /PATH c:\videos /FROMNAME "<genre>\<artist>\<album>\<track>" /CALCTIME