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Metadata Retrieval Settings

This dialog lets you choose where you want Mezzmo to get metadata from for your video files, music files, photos, folders and playlists. Metadata includes title, artist, album, genre, year, track and artwork. The metadata settings are used when adding files into Mezzmo and when you use the Maintain Library dialog.

Video tab

Metadata Retrieval Settings dialog (Video tab)

Use filename as title

Select this checkbox if you wish to ignore the metadata found for the video title and just use the filename as the title for your video file.

Get text metadata from file path

Select this checkbox if you wish to collect text metadata from the video's file path. Metadata that can be parsed includes title, year, series name, season and episode.

Mezzmo can parse the following styles of file paths to locate metadata:

C:\folder\Movie Title.avi
C:\folder\Movie Title YYYY.avi
C:\folder\Title s01e01 Subtitle.avi
C:\folder\Title 1×01 Subtitle.avi
C:\folder\Title Season 1\Title 1×01 Subtitle.avi
C:\folder\Title Season 1 Episode 1 Subtitle.avi
C:\folder\Title\Season 1\01 Subtitle.avi
C:\folder\Title\Season 1\s01e01 Subtitle.avi
C:\folder\Title\Season 1\1×01 Subtitle.avi
C:\folder\Title\Season 1\Title s01e01 Subtitle.avi
C:\folder\Title\Season 1\Title 1×01 Subtitle.avi
C:\folder\Title\Season 1\Episode 1 Subtitle.avi
C:\folder\Title\Season 1\Season 1 Episode 1 Subtitle.avi
C:\folder\Title Season 1\01 Subtitle.avi
C:\folder\Title Season 1\s01e01 Subtitle.avi
C:\folder\Title Season 1\1×01 Subtitle.avi
C:\folder\Title Season 1\Title s01e01 Subtitle.avi
C:\folder\Title Season 1\Title 1×01 Subtitle.avi
C:\folder\Title Season 1\Episode 1 Subtitle.avi
C:\folder\Title Season 1\Season 1 Episode 1 Subtitle.avi

Mezzmo also obtains the DVD title from DVD folder structures as follows:

C:\Folder\DVD Title
    \AUDIO_TS
    \VIDEO_TS
    \VTS_01_1.VOB
    \VTS_01_2.VOB
    \VTS_01_3.VOB

Mezzmo also obtains the Blu-ray title from Blu-ray folder structures as follows:

C:\Folder\Blu-ray Title
    \BDMV
    \PLAYLIST
    \STREAM

Get text metadata embedded in file

Select this checkbox if you wish to collect text metadata that may be contained in video files. Metadata includes title, artist, year, genre and comment.

Get artwork embedded in file

Select this checkbox if you wish to collect the embedded artwork contained in video files.

Get artwork from external files

Select this checkbox if you wish to collect artwork from associated artwork files that are found in the same folder as the video file. Associated artwork files include:

<filename>.jpg
<filename>.png
folder.jpg
folder.png
albumart*large.jpg
albumart*small.jpg

Get text metadata and artwork from ThumbGen (.tgmd) files

Select this checkbox if you wish to collect text metadata and artwork from ThumbGen (.tgmd) metadata files.

Get text metadata and artwork from XBMC (.nfo/.tbn) files

Select this checkbox if you wish to collect text metadata and artwork from Kodi/XBMC metadata files, including:

<filename>.nfo
<filename>.tbn
<filename>-poster.jpg
<filename>-poster.png
<filename>-banner.jpg
<filename>-banner.png
<filename>-fanart.jpg
<filename>-fanart.png
poster.jpg
poster.png
banner.jpg
banner.png
fanart.jpg
fanart.png

Get text metadata and artwork from series.xml and <episode>.xml files

Select this checkbox if you wish to collect text metadata and artwork from series.xml and <episode>.xml metadata files. The typical folder structure for TV series is:

C:\ExampleTVSeries\series.xml \\ 
C:\ExampleTVSeries\folder.jpg \\ 
C:\ExampleTVSeries\season1\episode1.avi \\ 
C:\ExampleTVSeries\season1\episode2.avi \\ 
C:\ExampleTVSeries\season1\episode3.avi \\ 
C:\ExampleTVSeries\season1\metadata\episode1.xml \\ 
C:\ExampleTVSeries\season1\metadata\episode2.xml \\ 
C:\ExampleTVSeries\season1\metadata\episode3.xml \\ 
C:\ExampleTVSeries\season2\episode1.avi \\ 
C:\ExampleTVSeries\season2\episode2.avi \\ 
C:\ExampleTVSeries\season2\episode3.avi \\ 
C:\ExampleTVSeries\season2\metadata\episode1.xml \\ 
C:\ExampleTVSeries\season2\metadata\episode2.xml \\ 
C:\ExampleTVSeries\season2\metadata\episode3.xml \\

Get text and artwork metadata from movie.xml and mymovies.xml files

Select this checkbox if you wish to collect text metadata and artwork from movie.xml files and (non-encrypted) mymovies.xml metadata files.

Get text metadata from Sony (.modd) files

Select this checkbox if you wish to collect text metadata from Sony .modd metadata files.

Get text and artwork metadata from internet web sites

Select this checkbox if you wish to collect text metadata and artwork from the themoviedb.org movie web site and TheTVDB.com web site.

Enter the preferred language code that you want the text metadata form these web sites. If your preferred language is not available, then English results will be returned. Popular language IDs are:

en = English
fr = French
de = German
it = Italian
pl = Polish
nl = Dutch
sv = Swedish
es = Spanish
ru = Russian
ja = Japanese
pt = Portuguese
zh = Chinese
el = Greek
fi = Finnish
da = Danish
no = Norwegian
ko = Korean
cs = Czech
tr = Turkish

Include adult titles

By clicking this button, Mezzmo will also search for adult (porn) video titles.

Default Settings

By clicking this button, the default values will be applied to the metadata retrieval settings.

Music

<h3>Use filename as title</h3>

<p>Select this checkbox if you wish to ignore the metadata found for the music title and just use the filename as the title for your music file.</p>

<h3>Get text metadata embedded in file</h3>

<p>Select this checkbox if you wish to collect text metadata that may be contained in music files. <!–kadov_tagspaces–> <!–kadov_tagspaces–>Metadata includes title, artist, album, year, genre, track and comment.</p>

<h3>Get artwork embedded in file</h3>

<p>Select this checkbox if you wish to collect the embedded album artwork contained in music files or the associated metadata files (e.g. folder.jpg). <!–kadov_tagspaces–> <!–kadov_tagspaces–>If there is no embedded artwork, then Mezzmo will create a thumbnail from the associated full-sized image.</p>

<h3>Get artwork from external files</h3>

<p>Select this checkbox if you wish to collect album artwork from associated artwork files that are found in the same folder as the music file. <!–kadov_tagspaces–> <!–kadov_tagspaces–>Associated artwork files include:</p>

<ul style=“list-style: disc;”

type=disc>

<li class=kadov-p><p>&lt;filename&gt;.jpg</p></li>

<li class=kadov-p><p>&lt;filename&gt;.png</p></li>

<li class=kadov-p><p>folder.jpg</p></li>

<li class=kadov-p><p>folder.png</p></li>

<li class=kadov-p><p>albumart*large.jpg</p></li>

<li class=kadov-p><p>albumart*small.jpg</p></li>

</ul>

<h3>Get artwork from internet web sites</h3>

<p>Select this checkbox if you wish to collect album artwork from web sites. <!–kadov_tagspaces–> <!–kadov_tagspaces–>Mezzmo uses the artist and album metadata to search popular web sites for matching album artwork.</p>

<h3>Default Settings</h3>

<p>By clicking this button, the default values will be applied to the metadata retrieval settings.</p>

<h2>Photo</h2>

<h3>Use filename as title</h3>

<p>Select this checkbox if you wish to ignore the metadata found for the photo title and just use the filename as the title for your photo.</p>

<h3>Get text metadata embedded in file</h3>

<p>Select this checkbox if you wish to collect text metadata that may be contained in photo files. <!–kadov_tagspaces–> <!–kadov_tagspaces–>Metadata includes created date, year, artist and comment.</p>

<h3>Get thumbnail embedded in file</h3>

<p>Select this checkbox if you wish to collect the embedded thumbnail contained in photos. <!–kadov_tagspaces–> <!–kadov_tagspaces–>If there is no embedded thumbnail, then Mezzmo will create a thumbnail from the full-sized image. <!–kadov_tagspaces–> <!–kadov_tagspaces–></p>

<p>Tip: Embedded thumbnails can be low quality, so turning this checkbox off will let Mezzmo create higher quality thumbnails based on the full-sized image.</p>

<h3>Default Settings</h3>

<p>By clicking this button, the default values will be applied to the metadata retrieval settings.</p>

<h2>Folder</h2>

<h3>Get artwork from external files</h3>

<p>Select this checkbox if you wish to collect artwork from associated artwork files that are found in the folder. <!–kadov_tagspaces–> <!–kadov_tagspaces–>Associated artwork files include:</p>

<ul style=“list-style: disc;”

type=disc>

<li class=kadov-p><p>folder.jpg</p></li>

<li class=kadov-p><p>folder.png</p></li>

</ul>

<h3>Get artwork from ThumbGen (.tgmd) files</h3>

<p>Select this checkbox if you wish to collect artwork from ThumbGen (.tgmd) metadata files.</p>

<h3>Get artwork from XBMC (.nfo/.tbn) files</h3>

<p>Select this checkbox if you wish to collect artwork from XBMC metadata files, including:</p>

<ul style=“list-style: disc;”

type=disc>

<li class=kadov-p><p>&lt;filename&gt;.nfo</p></li>

<li class=kadov-p><p>&lt;filename&gt;.tbn</p></li>

<li class=kadov-p><p>&lt;filename&gt;-poster.jpg</p></li>

<li class=kadov-p><p>&lt;filename&gt;-poster.png</p></li>

<li class=kadov-p><p>&lt;filename&gt;-banner.jpg</p></li>

<li class=kadov-p><p>&lt;filename&gt;-banner.png</p></li>

<li class=kadov-p><p>&lt;filename&gt;-fanart.jpg</p></li>

<li class=kadov-p><p>&lt;filename&gt;-fanart.png</p></li>

<li class=kadov-p><p>poster.jpg</p></li>

<li class=kadov-p><p>poster.png</p></li>

<li class=kadov-p><p>banner.jpg</p></li>

<li class=kadov-p><p>banner.png</p></li>

<li class=kadov-p><p>fanart.jpg</p></li>

<li class=kadov-p><p>fanart.png</p></li>

</ul>

<h3>Get artwork from series.xml and <episode>.xml files</h3>

<p>Select this checkbox if you wish to collect artwork from series.xml and <episode>.xml metadata files. The typical folder structure for TV series is:</p>

<p style=“margin-left: 67px;”>C:\ExampleTVSeries\series.xml</p>

<p style=“margin-left: 67px;”>C:\ExampleTVSeries\folder.jpg</p>

<p style=“margin-left: 67px;”>C:\ExampleTVSeries\season1\episode1.avi</p>

<p style=“margin-left: 67px;”>C:\ExampleTVSeries\season1\episode2.avi</p>

<p style=“margin-left: 67px;”>C:\ExampleTVSeries\season1\episode3.avi</p>

<p style=“margin-left: 67px;”>C:\ExampleTVSeries\season1\metadata\episode1.xml</p>

<p style=“margin-left: 67px;”>C:\ExampleTVSeries\season1\metadata\episode2.xml</p>

<p style=“margin-left: 67px;”>C:\ExampleTVSeries\season1\metadata\episode3.xml</p>

<p style=“margin-left: 67px;”>C:\ExampleTVSeries\season2\episode1.avi</p>

<p style=“margin-left: 67px;”>C:\ExampleTVSeries\season2\episode2.avi</p>

<p style=“margin-left: 67px;”>C:\ExampleTVSeries\season2\episode3.avi</p>

<p style=“margin-left: 67px;”>C:\ExampleTVSeries\season2\metadata\episode1.xml</p>

<p style=“margin-left: 67px;”>C:\ExampleTVSeries\season2\metadata\episode2.xml</p>

<p style=“margin-left: 67px;”>C:\ExampleTVSeries\season2\metadata\episode3.xml</p>

<h3>Get artwork metadata from movie.xml and mymovies.xml files</h3>

<p>Select this checkbox if you wish to collect artwork from movie.xml files and (non-encrypted) mymovies.xml metadata files.</p>

<h3>Create artwork based on contents of folder/playlist</h3>

<p>Select this checkbox if you want Mezzmo to use artwork from the files in the folder or playlist as the folder's artwork.</p>

<h2>Other</h2>

<h3>Sort title keywords</h3>

<p>Enter the words (separated by commas) that you want Mezzmo to find and remove from the start of the Title to create the Sort Title. <!–kadov_tagspaces–> <!–kadov_tagspaces–>Mezzmo searches Titles for these sort title keywords and removes them from the start of the title and adds them to the end to create the Sort Title. <!–kadov_tagspaces–> <!–kadov_tagspaces–>This enables you to sort your folders and playlists by Sort Title - so that it is more convenient to locate your files.</p>

<p style=“font-weight: bold;”>Examples:</p>

<p>Title: A Beautiful Mind</p>

<p>Sort title keywords: The, A, An</p>

<p>Sort Title: Beautiful Mind, A</p>

<p>Title: The Avengers</p>

<p>Sort title keywords: The, A, An</p>

<p>Sort Title: Avengers, The</p>

<h3>Get Backdrop artwork</h3>

<p>Select this checkbox if you want Mezzmo to collect backdrop artwork for your media files. <!–kadov_tagspaces–> <!–kadov_tagspaces–>Backdrop artwork is used when browsing your Mezzmo library on the <span style=“font-weight: bold;”>Mezzmo (Android)</span> app.</p>

<h3>Delete All Backdrop Artwork</h3>

<p>Click this button if you wish to remove all existing backdrop artwork that has been previously collected for your media files.</p>

<h3>Default Settings</h3>

<p>By clicking this button, the default values will be applied to the metadata retrieval settings.</p>

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<p><a href=“../Topics/Adding_Media_Files_To_Your_Mezzmo_Library.htm”>Adding media files to your Mezzmo library</a></p>

<p><a href=“../Topics/Maintaining_Your_Mezzmo_Library.htm”>Maintaining your Mezzmo library</a></p>

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