Comments on: Lostify 0.6 Released

By: Lowell

Lowell — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 20:06:06 +0000

Chris…

1 - I don’t know what a “whacked bookmark” is. It was one of the options available for the File Kind in AtomicParsley, so I just made it available in Lostify too. But I’ve never seen one “in the wild.”

2 - Not within iTunes, to my knowledge. This metadata (the File Kind) is actually a numeric code embedded in the MP4 file, known as the “stik” value. When Lostify and AtomicParsley say “Movie”, they really mean stik=0. When they say “Short Film”, they mean stik=9. However, (a) iTunes calls either one of these “Movie”, so it doesn’t seem to make much difference there; and (b) the iTunes Store sells at least some full-length films tagged with stik=9, so “Short Film” is probably not an apt descriptor anyway.

3 & 4 - Network and Encoding Tool show up when you Get Info for a track in iTunes, and then go to the “Summary” tab.

5 - The Rating Annotation is my name for the MPAA’s “Rating Reason”, i.e. the rationale behind the rating. For example, something might be PG-13 “for intense action violence, disturbing images and some thematic elements”. Currently, this information is not displayed anywhere in iTunes or Apple TV that I’m aware of. However, if you purchase movies from the iTunes Store, the rating annotation is set in them (or at least some of them), so I have provided a way to set this information in your own files too–just in case this piece of information is exposed in a future version of iTunes or Apple TV.

Sorry for the ?ber-long delay in the answer! But they are all good questions.

By: Christian BS

Christian BS — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:46:49 +0000

Thanks! Straight after I wrote that post I decided to see what happened if I clicked the “options” and there it was - sorry to trouble you - Although, I do have a few questions:

1 - What is a “whacked bookmark”?
2 - Is there any difference between setting a film as “Movie” or “Short Film”?
3 - What is the purpose of the “Network” tag and where does it show up in iTunes, is anywhere?
4 - What is the purpose of the “Encoding Tool” tag and where does it show up in iTunes, is anywhere?
5 - What is the purpose of the “Rating Annotation” tag and where does it show up in iTunes, is anywhere?

Thanks for reading (and for answering, depending on whether you do or not),

Chris.

By: Lowell

Lowell — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:47:51 +0000

Christian… Open the Options panel, and change the default country for ratings to United Kingdom. Then the UK ratings show up on the rating list instead of US ratings.

By: Christian BS

Christian BS — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:41:00 +0000

I love this app - just 1 question.. when you say added support for other ratings (IE, UK, NZ, etc…) How would I add let’s say a rating of 12A to a film? (I live in the UK you see)

By: Steve Paris

Steve Paris — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:06:13 +0000

Having used Lostify 0.6 a fair bit now, I’ve discovered a strange anomaly: when using Lostify to add metadata to a file from within iTunes, it appears to copy the file twice and then bin them (I have it set to move the original to the trash). Looking at the finder, I can see two files being generated (it also takes twice as long as it does when Lostify is used as a standalone application).

This process is inconsistent as it doesn’t happen all the time. Also, this never happens when using Lostify outside of iTunes. I’ve ended up using it independently of iTunes and then reinvoking it from iTunes in order to get the ‘i’.

Any idea why this is happening?

By: Lowell

Lowell — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:08:58 +0000

Kyle - to get the “i” button, you have to take advantage of Lostify’s iTunes integration (available in the Options drawer). Either use Lostify to add the file(s) to iTunes in the first place, or once the file is already in iTunes, enable the Lostify… script in the iTunes script menu, and then invoke Lostify on the tracks from within iTunes. Either way, you should get the description button.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:50:21 +0000

Just wondering I have looked forward to this release since I read you were doing the update. I downloaded it today did a couple of tv shows and then. Dropped them into iTunes and was disapointed to see that I did not have the little “i” in the description. Just wondered if i was doing somthing wrong.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 05:11:59 +0000

Hi,

Love this tool, but i have one request.

Can you add a progress bar to the app, so that when it’s processing a file we know how much is done?

Cheers

By: George Qualley

George Qualley — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:12:20 +0000

Love the program (although I wish it didn’t have to copy the entire movie) but one thing I noticed when I tried the new version the first time–I got an AppleScript timeout. Now, I’m using this on an old, slow, grape iMac that serves my AppleTV so it’s not the best test unit, but just thought you should know…

By: Lowell

Lowell — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 20:23:17 +0000

JL- yeah, I would have expected the dock to revert the icon when you quit. If it doesn’t… I suppose I can do it explicitly. That’ll be in the next round of tweaks (this weekend).