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Editing QT information tags for music/video
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: St Germain -en- Laye
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Hi, I can't seem to edit the information properly. I'd like to do this especially for songs I've added to my HD. When I hit apple I, I get the movie info. Should it be movie info as it is a mp3? The other choice is soundtrack which I don't really understand. Anyway, how do I edit the information, When I try to change the song title, I get the highlighted title but can't change it. Also, when I try adding info through annotations, there is a nice selection of choices, artist, etc. After i make the changes, it wants me to save them, fine, but it makes a copy. I don't want two versions, just the same song edited. I would appreciate someone walking me through this; thanks in advance.
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what you want to do is open your mp3's in iTunes and edit the information there. For videos, you can edit the information in Quicktime and just save it. If you want to send those movies around the internet, it would be polite to check the 'self contained' option when you save it, then keep the new copy and discard the original.
When Quicktime opens a file that is not a quicktime movie (mp3, avi, etc), it basically creates a new quicktime movie with a track of the media type that was opened. You can see evidence of this when you choose open from the File menu; mp3's and avi's will have a "convert" button where the "open" button is for .mov files. When you edit the metadata on such a file in Quicktime, you're dealing with this new movie wrapper. when you save such a file, quicktime is nice enough not to let you overwrite your mp3 or avi file with a mov file. Instead it forces you to create a new mov file. What's confusing here, is that mp3's are endowed with their own metadata, and Quicktime reads it when it opens an mp3, and duplicates the information into the mov file's metadata. What you want to do is edit the mp3's data, leaving it as an mp3, and this is what iTunes is for.
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blackmail is such an ugly word. I prefer extortion. the X makes it sound cool
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oops, I may have put my foot in my mouth a couple of times. example: that 'convert' button is only present in the OS 9 player. But you get the idea
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blackmail is such an ugly word. I prefer extortion. the X makes it sound cool
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