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[bspachman]

I am absolutely loving some of the 'under-the-hood' improvements going into MC13 (the new tagging engine, WASAPI, etc.), but I am still holding out hope that one of the side benefits to the revamped tags will be the ability to write tags to mp4 containers--notably AAC files with the m4a, m4b, and m4p extensions...

Do I dream in vain?
brad

[park]

and mkv

[ThoBar]

and mkv

and mka

[glynor]

And all other file types with optional sidecar XML files.   

[darichman]

And all other file types with optional sidecar XML files.   

What glynor said.

But short of that, any mkv love will be very welcome...

[Alex B]

Do MKV taggers actually exist?

Some creation tools can add certain tags when the files are encoded and/or muxed, but I am not aware of any tagger tool or player/database program that could edit existing and add new tags.

[Alex B]

glynor,

Has Adobe made any progress in creating a standard for XML video tags? The last time I checked it was only mentioned as a "future project".

I think an option for always creating and maintaining a sidecar file for untaggable formats would be good. For now, to save the developers' resources the file's internal structure could be the current MPL. The filename extension could be .mpl or .xml. The extension would not matter before a universal standard is available. This option could be available for all media types and file formats that cannot store tags.

[park]

Do MKV taggers actually exist?

Some creation tools can add certain tags when the files are encoded and/or muxed, but I am not aware of any tagger tool or player/database program that could edit existing and add new tags.

Good question Alex. A quick google search doesnt make it look too promising either. It seems that existing solutions by other people consist of just putting an xml file's data into the mkv when it's being muxed. I hope that's a limitation of imagination rather than a technical limitation of the format though.

[rjm]

I think an option for always creating and maintaining a sidecar file for untaggable formats would be good.

ooh, ooh, ooh!

[bspachman]

I like all these ideas as they pertain to mkv and other file types, but of course, my personal hope is that tags can actually get written to m4a/b/p files so that the proper tags show on folks' (ok, my) iPod...

Sidecar files would certainly help in the backing up of metadata, but aren't so helpful for portable player use...

brad

[benn600]

And all other file types with optional sidecar XML files.   

Yes, oh please!  DVD VIDEO_TS tagging would be amazing.

Also, please write the last position info (bookmark) to this so playing on one HTPC would save to the central XML file and all other HTPCs would read this.  If you get kicked out of the theater while watching a movie, continue it in the second or third-rate media room, right where you left off!  A dialog asking the user what to do would be great:
1) Resume from bookmark position
2) Start from beginning and reset bookmark
3) Start from beginning and don't overwrite bookmark.