Hey guys, I haven't ripped and tagged any movies in a while but I just got back into it last week. Anyway, I've been trying to use MetaX to put in the correct metadata info for the movies I've encoded, but it's just not working. Basically it doesn't find the movies I'm trying to search for. Currently, I'm trying to get tagging all done for the latest Star Trek movie. When I go to tagchimp.com, the movie and it's info is in the data base there, but when I search in MetaX I get a list of like 3 of the older Star Trek movies and that's it. Is anyone else having this issue? Thanks.
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Metax Not Working for Anyone Else?
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Yes.
My version works fine on mac although it is a system hog in terms of performance. I really would of liked the SD/HD tagging to be a feature of meta-x.
afaik there was a change to amazon's api so metax for mac can no longer look anything up from amazon. However for me the tag chimp stuff still works.
Dan Hinsley has kept up the metax for windows app and afaik Kerstetter ( the mac dev ) has not been heard of for some time.
Dan Hinsley has kept up the metax for windows app and afaik Kerstetter ( the mac dev ) has not been heard of for some time.
Why not just use lostify and get the info from imdb or the films webpage (if it is a newer film). Also, I have never had a problem with lostify destroying my files much like metax has done on occasion.
Lostify
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The reason MetaX is so convenient is when you are doing 5-6 movies at a time, MetaX combined with tagchimp and Amazon places it all right in front of you. I'm not sure, but last I checked you couldn't do artwork with lostify, and I don't know if that has changed....
Besides, I've had Lostify bungle a write of an .m4v file the same as MetaX.
The reason MetaX is so convenient is when you are doing 5-6 movies at a time, MetaX combined with tagchimp and Amazon places it all right in front of you. I'm not sure, but last I checked you couldn't do artwork with lostify, and I don't know if that has changed....
Besides, I've had Lostify bungle a write of an .m4v file the same as MetaX.
How are you getting tag chimp to still work? In MetaX I open my movie file, the new Star Trek movie, and then in the search box, I put in "Star Trek". Only like 6 selections from tagchimp are shown and none of them are the new Star Trek movie. However, when you go to tagchimps website, the data for the new movie is all there. Am I missing something?
The Mac version of MetaX is almost useless at this point. It will not look up Amazon data and it does not seem to have access to new TagChimp data.
The Windows version works great however. I now just tag them via Parallels, then go to iTunes and add the files. I found I can sort by the date and the most recently changed files end up at the top so I don't have to hunt around for them.
The Windows version works great however. I now just tag them via Parallels, then go to iTunes and add the files. I found I can sort by the date and the most recently changed files end up at the top so I don't have to hunt around for them.
It is too bad as MetaX is not getting data for any newer movies. Very sad as it is a great tool otherwise. Perhaps I will just do the updates via my wife's PC.
I have moved over completely to lostify and tagger to add artwork, its so much faster than adding it in itunes.
Try Video Monkey
Use video monkey "write meta data to input file only" this will not encode the file and meta tag it.
Use video monkey "write meta data to input file only" this will not encode the file and meta tag it.
Just started to play around with Vidalin which looks promising. No chapter support though that I can find.
MetaX Mac is again working with tagChimp.
No, MetaX has not been updated. I've rewritten a bunch of code, moved a few things around, ate monkey brains and then had relations with the devil, just so I could get it to work. I did this for you.
No, not you. You.
Tim
No, MetaX has not been updated. I've rewritten a bunch of code, moved a few things around, ate monkey brains and then had relations with the devil, just so I could get it to work. I did this for you.
No, not you. You.
Tim
If you're looking to add tag data to tagChimp then, afaik, MetaX is the only app that will do it. That's the part that I got working again.
It's always been able to search tagChimp, granted, for a while there it was spotty, but I rewrote the kajigger and enabled the upload-mo-tron and all is well again.