I've been ripping movies to my Mac for viewing from my Apple TV and I've discovered a major bug in iTunes' handling of the tagging feature. My standard ripping process is Handbrake -> MetaX -> iTunes. Every once in a while, I'll accidentally tag make unintended changes to the tags of a movie from within iTunes and hit "OK". Depending on what I try to change, it might update on the fly or have to rewrite the whole movie file. It seems when the second scenario happens, if you hit "Cancel" halfway through, iTunes doesn't know how to handle that gracefully and basically just destroys your file.
My guess is that they do an overwrite directly instead of copy and then replace if successful. It's quite annoying as it means 3-4 hours of work are wasted all because of the way MP4 tagging works.
Anyone have similar issues? Any suggestions on how to avoid this problem?
My guess is that they do an overwrite directly instead of copy and then replace if successful. It's quite annoying as it means 3-4 hours of work are wasted all because of the way MP4 tagging works.
Anyone have similar issues? Any suggestions on how to avoid this problem?