Where is the best place to file metadata about a multimedia file, such as a video or photograph? Why not on the file itself? This is the approach that the Navy Video News Service is taking by ...

Using the metadata option for QuickTime video files (file extension ".mov") is an effective way to name and describe business videos. Metadata is built right into files, so the descriptive information ...

Modern file formats have provisions to annotate the contents of the file with descriptive information. This development is driven by the need to find a better way to organize data than merely by using ...

Content indexing works well for finding files that contain text, but it's no help when searching for non-text data. Brien's workaround is to take advantage of Windows 10's file metadata feature. As ...

Whenever you capture an image from a camera or a mobile phone, image metadata is automatically generated and stored along with the image file. The image metadata can be read, and some fields can be ...

This is driving me crazy. I have a workflow where I combine many (30+) m4a files into one large one and adding metadata to the file, including artwork. This is how I have done it so far: Combine the ...

You can tell a lot about a document by its metadata, such as when the document was created, who created it, the time of its last edits, and more. Document Metadata Cleaner helps you to keep this ...

Apple's iCloud file storage service is a handy way to store and share files, but it can remove important file attributes during sync. Here's how to fix that. Apple's macOS and some other operating ...