Mac Apps That Update Mp3 Metadata

Often when you download your music from unofficial sources, it comes with no metadata and no album artwork. Metadata can get lost due to various other reasons as well, such as when you convert your files from one format to another but the converter doesn’t carry over the required tags.

This metadata is actually what allows your music player apps to organize your files. When your files lack this information, they remain unorganized and make it difficult for you to filter through your files.

One of the ways to fix the problem is to edit the MP3 metadata of your files. This way, you can add the missing information in each of your music files and make them searchable using various filters. There are plenty of apps to tag MP3s and you can use any of them to edit your files’ metadata and add in the missing information.

MusicBrainz Picard (Free)

Mar 07, 2018 If a song or album is showing the wrong info, you can use this guide to update its metadata on Windows 10 without having to use third-party apps. Mauro Huculak 7 Mar 2018 12.

MusicBrainz Picard is a multi-platform open-source tool that lets you easily add metadata to your music files that miss them. It supports almost all the music file formats available out there and so your files don’t necessarily have to be in MP3 format in order to edit the metadata

It uses something called AcoustID that helps it identify your music files by their contents and not their other meta fields. So even if your MP3s have zero data available, you can use the tool to add the missing information.

MP3Tag (Free)

MP3Tag is a popular app to tag MP3s and it supports batch processing as well. That means if you have a number of music files sitting on your computer without any metadata, you can load them all into this tool and let it find and add the required metadata for you.

It looks up various online databases to find the required information and album artwork and adds that to your files. It even lets you rename your MP3 files based on the tag information.

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Frigate3 (Paid)

Frigate3 is actually a file manager but it has various other features as well. One of these features lets you view and edit MP3 metadata. You basically need to navigate to the folder where your MP3 files are, click on any one of them, and you have a window open on the right-hand side pane to add the missing information.

Besides letting you edit MP3 metadata, it lets you view other information as well such as the MP3’s bit-rate and the frame numbers.

The GodFather (Free)

If there are several MP3 files that you want to add metadata to, The GodFather can help you do it with ease using its batch processing mode. It supports various tag formats even for non-MP3 files, helps update all the tags at once, lets you use the replacement matrix, and also allows you to delete all the tags at once, if you want to do it.

The tool is suitable for those of you wanting to update the metadata of a number of MP3 files at once. It makes the job a whole lot easier for you.

ID3 Tag Editor (Free)

ID3 Tag Editor is a Unicode supported app to tag MP3s and you can use it to add missing metadata values to your files in various languages. It also lets you add a cover art to your MP3 files which remains embedded in the main file itself.

Other features include the ability to add custom comments to your files, remove all the tags at once, and compatibility with both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows.

Music Tag (Paid)

Most apps that let you edit MP3 metadata use manual methods to do the task. Music Tag is unlike those apps and lets you automatically download and add missing metadata to your music files. To use the app, all you basically need to do is give it your MP3 files and it’ll download the required information and add it to all of your MP3 files.

This way it’s quicker than the other apps and gets the job done in no time. Also, it recognizes over 35 million music tracks and it’s highly likely your files are included here.

TigoTago (Free)

If you like Excel spreadsheets, you’re going to love the TigoTago app to tag your MP3s. It uses a spreadsheet-like format to let you edit and add new information to your MP3 files. Any changes you make to your files are first visible to you before they’re actually applied to your files.

It’s convenient for mass-tagging tasks and requires almost no typing as most of the data is fetched from online databases.

EasyTAG (Free)

EasyTAG is a feature-rich program for both Linux and Windows that helps you edit the metadata part of your audio files. It lets you view, read, and edit any part of the metadata for your files. You can also apply a single change to all of your MP3 files at once.

It has an easy to use interface and is available in multiple languages.

Kid3 (Free)

Kid3 is both an MP3 metadata editor and a tag converter to help you convert your tags into multiple formats. You can use it to tag almost all the audio file formats out there including MP3, generate tags from file names, and import data from online databases to add to your files.

It comes with a command-line interface as well to help you use it from a Command Prompt window and to automate some of its tasks.

Metatogger (Free)

Metatogger helps you both edit your existing tags in your MP3 files and clean-up any junk content in these tags. As you start using the app, you can go for either the manual mode or with C# scripts to speed-up the process. It also lets you organize your files by their tags content which is something not offered by many other tag editors.

It identifies your music files using the acoustic fingerprinting technology and downloads the required data from various online databases.

This chapter describes how to store metadata in QuickTime Movie files. It also defines keys for some common metadata types as examples of how to employ the metadata capabilities in the QuickTime file format.

Overview

Metadata can be defined as useful information related to media. This section describes a method of associating metadata with media in a QuickTime file that is extensible and allows for language and country tagging. In addition, it provides a means to store the type of the metadata and associate a name with metadata. This method of storing metadata is supported in both QuickTime 7 and QuickTime X.

This metadata format uses a key–value pair for each type of metadata being stored. Standard keys, with specific formats for the values they indicate, have been defined. See QuickTime Metadata Keys for details.

Note: The QuickTime file format also defines user data which, in some limited cases, can be used to store metadata. The method of storing metadata defined in this section provides an extensible and flexible design for handling a wide variety of metadata types.

Data Type

The storage type of metadata items is defined via an enumerated list of data types, defined statically; an example might be “plain Unicode text”. See the Well-Known Types table for details of the standard, defined data types.

Meaning or Purpose

The meaning of a metadata item identifies what it represents: a copyright notice, the performer’s name, and so on. It uses an extensible namespace allowing for meanings or keys to be added, and then referenced, from metadata items. These keys may be four-character codes, names in reverse-address format (such as “com.apple.quicktime.windowlocation”) or any other key format including native formats from external metadata standards. A key is tagged with its namespace allowing for extension in the future. It is recommended that reverse-address format be used in the general case: this provides an extensible syntax for vendor data or for other organizations or standards bodies.

Data Location

Metadata is stored immediately in the corresponding atom structures, by value.

Localization

A metadata item can be identified as specific to a country or set of countries, to a language or set of languages, or to some combination of languages and countries. This identification allows for a default value (suitable for any language or country not explicitly called out), a single value, or a list of values.

Storage Location in a QuickTime File

Within a QuickTime file, metadata can be stored within a movie atom (‘moov’), a track atom (‘trak’) or a media atom (‘mdia’). Only one metadata atom is allowed for each location. If there is user data and metadata stored in the same location, and both declare the same information, for example, declare a copyright notice, the metadata takes precedence.

Metadata Structure

The container for metadata is an atom of type ‘meta’. The metadata atom must contain the following subatoms: metadata handler atom (‘hdlr’), metadata item keys atom (‘keys’), and metadata item list atom (‘ilst’). Other optional atoms that may be contained in a metadata atom include the country list atom (‘ctry’), language list atom (‘lang’) and free space atom (‘free’). The country list and language list atoms can be used to store localized data in an efficient manner. The free space atom may be used to reserve space in a metadata atom for later additions to it, or to zero out bytes within a metadata atom after editing and removing elements from it. The free space atom may not occur within any other subatom contained in the metadata atom.

Metadata Atom

The metadata atom is the container for carrying metadata.

Figure 3-1 shows a sample layout for this atom.

Metadata Handler Atom

The metadata handler atom is a full atom with an atom type of ‘hdlr’. It defines the structure used for all types of metadata stored within the metadata atom.

The layout of the metadata handler atom is defined:

Size

A 32-bit unsigned integer that indicates the size in bytes of the atom structure

Type

A 32-bit unsigned integer value set to 'hdlr'

Version

One byte that is set to 0

Flags

Three bytes that are set to 0

Predefined

A 32-bit integer that is set to 0

Handler type

A 32-bit integer that indicates the structure used in the metadata atom, set to ‘mdta’

Reserved

An array of 3 const unsigned 32-bit integers set to 0

Name

The name is a NULL-terminated string in UTF-8 characters which gives a human-readable name for a metadata type, for debugging and inspection purposes. The string may be empty or a single byte containing 0.

Note: A reader parsing a metadata atom should confirm the handler type in the metadata handler atom is ‘mdta’ before interpreting any other structures in the metadata atom according to the specification presented here. If the handler type is not ‘mdta’, the interpretation is defined by another specification.

Metadata Header Atom

The metadata format optionally assigns unique identifiers to metadata items for such purposes as defining stable identifiers for external references into the set of metadata items. This is accomplished by including an item information atom in added metadata item atoms contained by the metadata item list atom. Such unique identifiers must be guaranteed to be unique.

To make the assignment of unique item identifiers more efficient, the metadata atom may contain a metadata header atom holding the integer value for the next unique item identifier to assign stored in the nextItemID field. In general it holds a value one greater than the largest identifier used so far.

Important: The metadata header atom must exist if there are metadata item atoms containing an item information atom indicating the item’s unique ID.

Upon assigning the identifier to a metadata item, if the value of the nextItemID field is less than 0xFFFFFFFF, it should be incremented to the next unused value. If the value of nextItemID is equal to 0xFFFFFFFF, it should not be changed: in that case, a search for an unused item identifier value in the range from 0 to 0xFFFFFFFF is needed for all additions.

The metadata header atom is a full atom with an atom type of ‘mhdr’. It contains the following fields:

Size

A 32-bit unsigned integer that indicates the size in bytes of the atom structure

Type

A 32-bit unsigned integer value set to 'mdhr'

Version

One byte that is set to 0.

Flags

Three bytes that are set to 0.

nextItemID

A 32-bit unsigned integer indicating the value to use for the item ID of the next item created or assigned an item ID. If the value is all ones, it indicates that future additions will require a search for an unused item ID.

Note: If the last metadata item with an item information atom is removed and value of nextItemID is 0xFFFFFFFF, an implementation may reset the metadata header atom’s nextItemID value to 0 so that new assignments are again efficient (that is, they do not require a search for unused identifiers).

Extensibility

In order to allow metadata to be rewritten easily and without the need to rewrite the entire QuickTime movie file, free space atoms may occur anywhere in the definition of the metadata atom between the positions of other atoms contained by the metadata atom. Free space atoms may not be inserted between items in the metadata item list atom or within atoms in the metadata item list atom. This restriction on free space atom definition avoids the risk of confusing a free space atom with a meaning of a ‘free’ identifier or a value atom of type ‘free’ defined in the context of the metadata atom structure.

Similarly, UUID atoms for specific extensions may be placed in any position where a succession of atoms is permitted. Note that UUID atoms should not be created for atoms already defined using four-character codes.

Unrecognized atoms (that is, those atoms whose types not defined in the context of the metadata atom structure and are contained within the metadata item list atom) are ignored.

Localization List Sets

When metadata items have individual values associated with more than one country or more than one language, a country list atom and/or language list atom are required. Alternatively, if all values are associated with zero or one country, no country list atom is required, and if all values are associated with zero or one language, no language list atom is required.

Country List Atom

When one or more items must be identified as being suitable for more than one country, each list of countries is stored in this otherwise optional atom. The country list atom is a full atom with an atom type of ‘ctry’.

Each list starts with a two-byte count of the number of items in the list, and then each ISO 3166 code representing countries in the list.

The atom consists of a count of the number of lists, expressed as a 32-bit integer, and then these lists, appended end-to-end. The country list atom contains the following fields:

Size

A 32-bit unsigned integer that indicates the size in bytes of the atom structure

Type

A 32-bit unsigned integer value set to 'ctry'

Version

One byte that is set to 0.

Flags

Three bytes that are set to 0.

Entry_count

A 32-bit integer indicating the number of Country arrays to follow in this atom.

Country_count

A 16-bit integer indicating the number of Countries in the array.

Country[Country_count]

An array of 16-bit integers, defined according to the ISO 3166 definition of country codes.

Note that:

  • Indexes into the country list atom are 1-based.

  • Zero (0) is reserved and never used as an index.

  • Currently, there is a limit of 255 countries that may be recorded in a country list atom.

An example country list atom consisting of two country lists with two and three countries, respectively, is shown in Table 3-1.

Table 3-1 Example country list atom

Field Size

Field

Field Contents

Comment

32-bit

atom_size

26

Size of this country list atom in bytes.

32-bit

atom_type

'ctry’

32-bit

entry_count

2

Number of country lists.

16-bit

country_count

2

Number of countries in country list 1.

16-bit

country

'US’

16-bit

country

'UK’

16-bit

country_count

3

Number of countries in country list 2.

16-bit

country

'JP’

16-bit

country

'US’

16-bit

country

'FR’

Language List Atom

When one or more items must be identified as being suitable for more than one language, each list of languages is stored in this otherwise optional atom. The language list atom is a full atom with an atom type of ‘lang’.

Each list starts with a 2-byte count of the number of items in the list, and then each ISO 639-2/T code, packed into two bytes, according to the ISO Language Code definition in the MP4 specification.

The atom consists of a count of the number of lists, expressed as a 32-bit integer, and then these lists, appended end-to-end. The language list atom contains the following fields:

Size

A 32-bit unsigned integer that indicates the size in bytes of the atom structure

Type

A 32-bit unsigned integer value set to 'lang'

Version

One byte that is set to 0.

Flags

Three bytes that are set to 0.

Entry_count

A 32-bit integer indicating the number of language arrays to follow in this atom.

Language_count

A 16-bit integer indicating the number of languages in the array.

Language[Language_count]

An array of 16-bit integers, defined according to the ISO 639-2/T definition of language codes.

Note that:

  • Indexes into the Language List atom are 1-based.

  • Zero (0) is reserved and never used as an index.

  • Currently, there is a limit of 255 languages that may be recorded in a Language List atom.

Table 3-2 shows an example Language List atom consisting of two language lists with three and two languages, respectively.

Table 3-2 Example Language List atom

Field Size

Field

Field Contents

Comment

32-bit

atom_size

26

Size of this Language List atom in bytes.

32-bit

atom_type

'lang’

32-bit

entry_count

2

Number of language lists.

16-bit

language_count

3

Number of languages in language list 1.

16-bit

language

5575

Packed ISO code for ‘eng’ (English)

16-bit

language

6721

Packed ISO code for ‘fra’ (French)

16-bit

language

4277

Packed ISO code for ‘deu’ (German)

16-bit

language_count

2

Number of languages in language list 2.

16-bit

language

19969

Packed ISO code for ‘spa’ (Spanish)

16-bit

language

16882

Packed ISO code for ‘por’ (Portuguese)

Metadata Item Keys Atom

The metadata item keys atom holds a list of the metadata keys that may be present in the metadata atom. This list is indexed starting with 1; 0 is a reserved index value. The metadata item keys atom is a full atom with an atom type of ‘keys’.

This atom has the following structure:

Size

A 32-bit unsigned integer that indicates the size in bytes of the atom structure

Type

A 32-bit unsigned integer value set to 'keys'

Version

One byte that is set to 0

Flags

Three bytes that are set to 0

Entry_count

A 32-bit integer indicating the number of key arrays to follow in this atom

Key_size

A 32-bit integer indicating the size of the entire structure containing a key definition. Therefore the key_size = sizeof(key_size) + sizeof(key_namespace) + sizeof(key_value). Since key_size and key_namespace are both 32 bit integers, together they have a size of 8 bytes. Hence, the key_value structure will be equal to key_size - 8.

Key_namespace

A 32-bit integer defining a naming scheme used for metadata keys. Location metadata keys, for example, use the ‘mdta’ key namespace.

Key_value[Key_size-8]

An array of 8-bit integers, each containing the actual name of the metadata key. Keys with the ‘mdta’ namespace use a reverse DNS naming convention. For example, the location metadata coordinates use a metadata key_value of ‘com.apple.quicktime.location.ISO6709’.

Note that:

  • Indexes into the metadata item keys atom are 1-based (1…entry_count).

  • Zero (0) is reserved and never used as an index.

  • The structure of key_value depends upon the key namespace.

Figure 3-2 shows a sample layout for this atom.

Figure 3-3 shows an example of a metadata item keys atom consisting of three keys: two from one key namespace and a third from another key namespace.

Metadata Item List Atom

The metadata item list atom holds a list of actual metadata values that are present in the metadata atom. The metadata items are formatted as a list of items. The metadata item list atom is of type ‘ilst’ and contains a number of metadata items, each of which is an atom.

Figure 3-4 shows the connection between keys.

Metadata Item Atom

Each item in the metadata item list atom is identified by its key. The atom type for each metadata item atom should be set equal to the index of the key for the metadata within the item atom, taking this index from the metadata item keys atom. In addition, each metadata item atom contains a Value Atom, to hold the value of the metadata item.

The metadata item atom has the following structure:

Item_info

An optional item information atom, see Item Information Atom (ID and flags)

Name

An optional name atom, defined below.

Data value atom[]

An array of value atoms, defined below.

Value Atom

The value of the metadata item is expressed as immediate data in a value atom. The value atom starts with two fields: a type indicator, and a locale indicator. Both the type and locale indicators are four bytes long. There may be multiple ‘value’ entries, using different type, country or language codes (see the Data Ordering section below for the required ordering).

The Value atom structure contains the following fields:

Type

A type indicator, defined in Type Indicator.

Locale

A locale indicator, defined in Locale Indicator.

Type Indicator

The type indicator is formed of four bytes split between two fields. The first byte indicates the set of types from which the type is drawn. The second through fourth byte forms the second field and its interpretation depends upon the value in the first field.

The indicator byte must have a value of 0, meaning the type is drawn from the well-known set of types. All other values are reserved.

If the type indicator byte is 0, the following 24 bits hold the well-known type. Please refer to the list of Well-Known Types, in the Well-Known Types section below.

Locale Indicator

The locale indicator is formatted as a four-byte value. It is formed from two two-byte values: a country indicator, and a language indicator. In each case, the two-byte field has the possible values shown in Table 3-3.

Table 3-3 Country and language indicators

Value

Meaning

0

This atom provides the default value of this datum for any locale not explicitly listed.

1 to 255

The value is an index into the country or language list (the upper byte is 0).

otherwise

The value is an ISO 3166 code (for the country code) or a packed ISO 639-2/T code (for the language).

Note that both ISO 3166 and ISO 639-2/T codes have a nonzero value in their top byte, and so will have a value > 255.

Software applications that read metadata may be customized for a specific set of countries or languages. If a metadata writer does not want to limit a metadata item to a specific set of countries, it should use the reserved value ZZ from ISO 3166 as its country code. Similarly if the metadata writer does not want to limit the user’s language (this is not recommended) it uses the value ‘und’ (undetermined) from the ISO 639-2/T specification.

A software application matches a country code if either (a) the value to be matched to is 0 (default) or (b) the codes are equal. A software application matches to a list of codes if its value is a member of that list. A software application matches to a locale if both country and language match.

Table 3-4 shows some example metadata tags.

Table 3-4 Example metadata tags

Country

Language

Meaning

0

eng

All speakers of English, regardless of country

GB

0

All people in the United Kingdom, regardless of language

CA

fra

French speakers in Canada

DE,GB,FR,IT

0

People in Germany, France, United Kingdom, and Italy, regardless of language

DE,GB,FR,IT

deu,fra

People in Germany, France, United Kingdom, and Italy, who speak German or French

0

0

Default, all speakers in all countries

To reiterate, if the country_indicator value is in the range 1 to 255, it is interpreted as the 1-based index for a country list in the Country Language atom in the Metadata atom. If the language_indicator value is in the range 1 to 255, it is interpreted as the 1-based index for a language list in the Language List atom in the Metadata atom. Otherwise, the country_indicator or language_indicator is unspecified (0) or holds the immediate value for a single country or language.

Item Information Atom (ID and flags)

The optional item information atom contains information about the item: item-specific flags and item optional identifier. This ID must be unique within the metadata atom. To simplify assignment of item identifiers, the metadata header atom’s nextItemInfo field can be used as described in Metadata Header Atom.

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The item information atom must be present if the item has an assigned ID or has nonzero flags.

No flags are currently defined; they should be set to 0 in this version of the specification.

The item information atom is a full atom with an atom type of ‘itif’. This atom has the following structure:

Size

A 32-bit unsigned integer that indicates the size in bytes of the atom structure

Type

A 32-bit unsigned integer value set to 'itif'

Version

One byte that is set to 0.

Flags

Three bytes that are set to 0.

Item_ID

An unsigned 32-bit integer, unique within the container.

Name

The Name atom is a full atom with an atom type of ‘name’. This atom contains a metadata name formatted as a string of UTF-8 characters, to fill the atom. It is optional. If it is not present, the item is unnamed, and cannot be referred to by name. Names are not user visible; they provide a way to refer to metadata items. The maximum length of a name may be limited in specific environments.

No two metadata items may have the same name.

This atom has the following structure:

Version

One byte that is set to 0.

Flags

Three bytes that are set to 0.

Name

An array of bytes, constituting a UTF-8 string, containing the name.

Data Atom Structure

The Data atom has an atom type of ‘data’, and contains four bytes each of type and locale indicators, as specified in Type Indicator and Locale Indicator, and then the actual value of the metadata, formatted as required by the type.

This atom has the following structure:

Type Indicator

The type indicator, as defined in Type Indicator.

Locale Indicator

The locale indicator, as defined in Locale Indicator.

Value

An array of bytes containing the value of the metadata.

Data Ordering

Multiple values for the same tag represent multiple representations of the same information, differing either by language or storage type or by the size or nature of the data. For example, an artist name may be supplied in three ways:

  • as a large JPEG of their signature

  • as a smaller ‘thumbnail’ JPEG of their signature

  • as text

An application may then choose the variation of the the artist name to display based on the size it needs.

Data must be ordered in each item from the most-specific data to the most general. An application may, if it wishes, stop ‘searching’ for a value once it finds a value that it can display (it has an acceptable locale and type).

Well-Known Types

The basic cellspacing='0' cellpadding='5'>Table 3-5 Well-known data types

Code

Type

Comment

0

reserved

Reserved for use where no type needs to be indicated

1

UTF-8

Without any count or NULL terminator

2

UTF-16

Also known as UTF-16BE

3

S/JIS

Deprecated unless it is needed for special Japanese characters

4

UTF-8 sort

Variant storage of a string for sorting only

5

UTF-16 sort

Variant storage of a string for sorting only

13

JPEG

In a JFIF wrapper

14

PNG

In a PNG wrapper

21

BE Signed Integer

A big-endian signed integer in 1,2,3 or 4 bytes

Note: This data type is not supported in Timed Metadata Media. Use one of the fixed-size signed integer data types (that is, type codes 65, 66, or 67) instead.

22

BE Unsigned Integer

A big-endian unsigned integer in 1,2,3 or 4 bytes; size of value determines integer size

Note: This data type is not supported in Timed Metadata Media. Use one of the fixed-size unsigned integer data types (that is, type codes 75, 76, or 77) instead.

23

BE Float32

A big-endian 32-bit floating point value (IEEE754)

24

BE Float64

A big-endian 64-bit floating point value (IEEE754)

27

BMP

Windows bitmap format graphics

28

QuickTime Metadata atom

A block of data having the structure of the Metadata atom defined in this specification

65

8-bit Signed Integer

An 8-bit signed integer

66

BE 16-bit Signed Integer

A big-endian 16-bit signed integer

67

BE 32-bit Signed Integer

A big-endian 32-bit signed integer

70

BE PointF32

A block of data representing a two dimensional (2D) point with 32-bit big-endian floating point x and y coordinates. It has the structure:

struct { BEFloat32 x; BEFloat32 y; }

71

BE DimensionsF32

A block of data representing 2D dimensions with 32-bit big-endian floating point width and height. It has the structure:

struct { BEFloat32 width; BEFloat32 height; }

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72

BE RectF32

A block of data representing a 2D rectangle with 32-bit big-endian floating point x and y coordinates and a 32-bit big-endian floating point width and height size. It has the structure:

struct { BEFloat32 x; BEFloat32 y; BEFloat32 width; BEFloat32 height;}

or the equivalent structure:

struct { PointF32 origin; DimensionsF32 size; }

74

BE 64-bit Signed Integer

A big-endian 64-bit signed integer

75

8-bit Unsigned Integer

An 8-bit unsigned integer

76

BE 16-bit Unsigned Integer

A big-endian 16-bit unsigned integer

77

BE 32-bit Unsigned Integer

A big-endian 32-bit unsigned integer

78

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BE 64-bit Unsigned Integer

A big-endian 64-bit unsigned integer

79

AffineTransformF64

A block of data representing a 3x3 transformation matrix. It has the structure:

struct { BEFloat64 matrix[3][3]; }

The sorting variant of text is used for languages in which sorting is not evident from the written form (for example, some forms of Asian languages). In these cases, the sorting can only be performed by a human who can identify the actual words by understanding the context. For these languages, an alternative form of the same information can be stored using a different representation of the same text which can be machine sorted. This alternative representation is still sorted according to the sort rules of the language in question, as defined for the text system in use (for example, Unicode). In general, a simple lexical sorting which compares the values of the characters alone is not sufficient.

Location Metadata

Many systems have the ability to detect or establish their position in a coordinate reference system. The specification “ISO 6709:2008 Standard representation of geographic point location by coordinates” describes one way of storing such information. One of the common systems is the Global Positioning System (GPS) developed by the US Department of Defense. Other systems include the ability of some cellular telephone systems to triangulate the position of cell-phones, and the possibility that IEEE 802.11 Wireless Base Stations are tagged with their position (whereupon mobile units that can ‘see’ their signal can establish that they are probably ‘near’ that location).

This support is increasingly common in still and movie cameras, or composite devices (such as camera-phones) that can function as cameras.

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Apple has defined a key for storing the location coordinates as metadata, as well as several auxiliary pieces of information about a location. For all the location metadata keys defined in this specification, the Metadata atom handler-type should be ‘mdta’. See the com.apple.quicktime.location.ISO6709 entry in the following table for a description of the main location metadata key, and the additional table describing auxiliary location metadata keys.

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QuickTime Metadata Keys

QuickTime has defined the keys shown in Table 3-6 for holding data in a Metadata atom:

Table 3-6 Metadata keys

Key

Key Type

Value Payload

Definition

Example

com.apple.quicktime.album

'mdta’

A UTF-8 string (value type 1). Can have multiple values with different language and country code designations.

Album or collection name of which the movie content forms a part.

Technical documents performed to blues tunes Volume 1.

com.apple.quicktime.artist

'mdta’

A UTF-8 string (value type 1). Can have multiple values with different language and country code designations.

Name of the artist who created the movie file content.

Grandma Doe and the Spec Writers.

com.apple.quicktime.artwork

'mdta’

An representative image for the movie content in a format such as JPEG (value type 13), PNG (value type 14) or BMP (value type 27). This might be album artwork, a movie poster, etc.

A single image that can represent the movie file content.

(a picture of the cover art)

com.apple.quicktime.author System library core services mrt app contents macos mrt 2.

'mdta’

A UTF-8 string (value type 1). Can have multiple values with different language and country code designations.

Name of the author of the movie file content.

Technical writer (anonymous)

com.apple.quicktime.comment

'mdta’

A UTF-8 string (value type 1). Can have multiple values with different language and country code designations.

User entered comment regarding the movie file content.

Great for a laugh.

com.apple.quicktime.copyright

'mdta’

A UTF-8 string (value type 1). Can have multiple values with different language and country code designations.

Copyright statement for the movie file content.

Copyright © 2012 Grandma Doe

com.apple.quicktime.creationdate

'mdta’

A UTF-8 string (value type 1). Can have multiple values with different language and country code designations.

The date the movie file content was created.

4/21/2012

com.apple.quicktime.description

'mdta’

A UTF-8 string (value type 1). Can have multiple values with different language and country code designations.

Description of the movie file content.

This group of engineers takes popular technical documents and does music videos performing them to novel blues tunes they write.

com.apple.quicktime.director

'mdta’

A UTF-8 string (value type 1). Can have multiple values with different language and country code designations.

Name of the director of the movie content.

Papa Doe

com.apple.quicktime.title

'mdta’

A UTF-8 string (value type 1). Can have multiple values with different language and country code designations.

The title of the movie file content. This is typically a single text line.

Technical Writers Do the Blues

com.apple.quicktime.genre

'mdta’

A UTF-8 string (value type 1). Can have multiple values with different language and country code designations.

Text describing the genre or genres to which the movie content conforms. There is no prescribed vocabulary for names of genres.

Blues

com.apple.quicktime.information

'mdta’

A UTF-8 string (value type 1). Can have multiple values with different language and country code designations.

Information about the movie file content.

Recorded live on location.

com.apple.quicktime.keywords

'mdta’

A UTF-8 string (value type 1). Can have multiple values with different language and country code designations.

Keywords associated with the movie file content.

Blues Specifications Group Video Music

com.apple.quicktime.location.ISO6709

'mdta’

Defined in ISO 6709:2008.

Geographic point location by coordinates as defined in ISO 6709:2008.

'+27.5916+086.5640+8850/'

com.apple.quicktime.producer

'mdta’

A UTF-8 string (value type 1). Can have multiple values with different language and country code designations.

Name of producer of movie file content.

Jimmy Doe Junior

com.apple.quicktime.publisher

'mdta’

A UTF-8 string (value type 1). Can have multiple values with different language and country code designations.

Name of publisher of movie file content.

The Do-Doe Art House, Inc.

com.apple.quicktime.software

'mdta’

A UTF-8 string (value type 1). Can have multiple values with different language and country code designations.

Name of software used to create the movie file content.

Do-the-Blues v2.3

com.apple.quicktime.year

'mdta’

A UTF-8 string (value type 1). Can have multiple values with different language and country code designations.

Year when the movie file or the original content was created or recorded.

2012

com.apple.quicktime.collection.user

'mdta’

A UTF-8 string (value type 1). Can have multiple values with different language and country code designations.

A name indicating a user-defined collection that includes this movie.

Blues Specification Group

com.apple.quicktime.rating.user

'mdta’

A BE Float32 (value type 23). The range of this number is 0.0 to 5.0, inclusive.

A number, assigned by the user, that indicates the rating or relative value of the movie. This number can range from 0.0 to 5.0. A value of 0.0 indicates that the user has not rated the movie.

4.5

In addition, QuickTime recommends the auxiliary keys shown in Table 3-7 for holding additional metadata to be associated with a location.

Table 3-7 Auxiliary keys for metadata

Key

Key Type

Value Payload

Definition

Example

com.apple.quicktime.location.name

'mdta’

A UTF-8 string (value type 1). Can have multiple values with different language and country code designations.

Name of the location.

“Sweden” or “Grandmother’s house”

com.apple.quicktime.location.body

'mdta’

A UTF-8 string (value type 1). Can have multiple values with different language and country code designations.

The astronomical body, for compatibility with the 3GPP format. 'earth' is assumed if not present.

“earth”

com.apple.quicktime.location.note

'mdta’

A UTF-8 string (value type 1). Can have multiple values with different language and country code designations.

Descriptive comment.

“following a dog”

com.apple.quicktime.location.role

'mdta’

An unsigned integer (value type 22).

A single byte, binary value containing a value from the set: 0 indicates “shooting location”, 1 indicates “real location”, 2 indicates “fictional location”. Other values are reserved.

1, for shooting location

com.apple.quicktime.location.date

'mdta’

Defined in ISO8601:2004.

A date and time, stored using the extended format defined in ISO 8601:2004- Data elements and interchange format.

'2012-02-24T17:56Z' for a date of February 24, 2012, time of 17:56, UTC.

com.apple.quicktime.direction.facing

'mdta’

A UTF-8 string (value type 1)holding a machine readable direction value, as described below. This should not be tagged with a country or language code.

An indication of the direction the camera is facing during the shot.

“+20.34M/-5.3” for a heading of 20.34º magnetic, looking or going down at 5.3º below the horizontal.

com.apple.quicktime.direction.motion

'mdta’

A UTF-8 string (value type 1) holding a machine readable direction value, as described below. This should not be tagged with a country or language code.

An indication of the direction the camera is moving during the shot.

“+20.34M/-5.3” for a heading of 20.34º magnetic, looking or going down at 5.3º below the horizontal.

Direction Definition

For the metadata keys which define a direction, com.apple.quicktime.direction.facing and com.apple.quicktime.direction.motion, directions are specified as a string consisting of one or two angles, separated by a slash if two occur. The first is a compass direction, expressed in degrees and decimal degrees, optionally preceded by the characters “+” or “-”, and optionally followed by the character “M”. The direction is determined as accurately as possible; the nominal due north (zero degrees) is defined as facing along a line of longitude of the location system, unless the angle is followed by the “M” character indicating a magnetic heading. The second is an elevation direction, expressed in degrees and decimal degrees between +90.0 and -90.0, with 0 being horizontal (level), +90.0 being straight up, and -90.0 being straight down (and for these two cases, the compass direction is irrelevant).

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