Comments for Lostify

Comment on Fixing up Files That Lostify Won’t Read (redux) by lowell

lowell — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:47:23 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Jeremy. I will check the Canadian ratings before I release the next update. Unfortunately I’ve been delayed a lot longer than I expected, but hopefully before too long…

Comment on Fixing up Files That Lostify Won’t Read (redux) by Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:17:40 +0000

Hey love the application.
today, movies were announced for itunes through canada.
and the ratings in itunes are different than in the appliciation
like in itunes its like “18A” and in your app it’s “18″
hopeing you could fix that,thanks much.

Comment on Lostify 0.7 by lowell

lowell — Wed, 21 May 2008 03:47:43 +0000

mshoger… the Rating field does have a lock… I guess it’s not obvious, though. The rating field and the “rating annotation” field are stored in the same metadata field in the file, so I considered them one field for locking purposes. Therefore the lock to the right of the annotation field locks both the rating and the annotation.

Comment on Lostify 0.7 by mshoger

mshoger — Tue, 20 May 2008 18:41:20 +0000

Would it be too difficult to put a lock function on the Rating field? I import a lot of TV episodes I’ve ripped of my DVD collection and all of them have the same rating…

Thanks in advance and thank you for the awesome program.

Comment on Lostify 0.7 by Prescott

Prescott — Thu, 15 May 2008 05:01:54 +0000

I use the “lock” settings all the time to keep TV Show titles and episode conventions the same, but they would be even more useful if I could save them as “presets” for different kinds of batch conversions. For example, I would lock in batch conversions for:
1) Son’s soccer team movies
2) Daughter’s flute recital movies
3) Archived home movies

Thanks!

Comment on Fixing up Files That Lostify Won’t Read (redux) by Joseph

Joseph — Sat, 10 May 2008 19:14:10 +0000

Do you have any plans on implementing tagchimp?

Comment on Fixing up Files That Lostify Won’t Read (redux) by John

John — Wed, 07 May 2008 00:55:12 +0000

So, in my experience it is not necessary to strip out all metadata. It is only necessary to strip the free space from the meta data. This can be done by passing AtomicParsley the –freefree flag.

Comment on Lostify 0.7 by Jesse David Hollington

Jesse David Hollington — Sun, 04 May 2008 11:12:17 +0000

The situation with the description/long description in iTunes is patently odd…. You actually *can* set the long description via AppleScript using the iTunes dictionary, and it will work flawlessly in terms of presenting the small “i” and showing the full length of the description.

The problem seems to be when setting this in the tags themselves, and is probably related to iTunes not reading it back in properly.

I’ve been using an Applescript for my TV Show tagging workflow for a year or so now, and all the long descriptions come through fine…. In my case, I actually use one source description field parsed from a text file… I place the whole description “as-is” into the “Long Description” field, and truncate it at the nearest sentence-end to 250 characters to fit it into the normal “Description” field. I have noticed that if I set *just* the “Long Description” field without putting anything into the “Description” field, then the “i” does not appear.

I do use Lostify and AtomicParsley for movies (the cast and crew list is a very nice addition), and the occasional one-offs that aren’t worth running through my scripts, and have otherwise noticed the same problems as noted above.

- Rob: When adding artwork via iTunes, it will often add this as an *additional* piece of artwork, keeping the existing frame-shot already in place. You can confirm this by opening the file via “Get Info” and checking the “Artwork” tab. You’ll probably see TWO images. Just delete the one you don’t want.

To fix this for a large number of files, select all of the tracks, choose “Get Info” and then paste the artwork into the edit info dialog box — this will *overwrite* any artwork already in place, rather than adding it.

Comment on Ongoing challenges by lowell

lowell — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:46:44 +0000

Alec… Lostify doesn’t currently do anything special about the “iPod atom” in MP4 files. If it’s there already, I believe Lostify leaves it alone; if it’s not present, Lostify doesn’t add it. The documentation for AtomicParsley seems to indicate it (AP) can write this tag, but my testing so far has been inconclusive.

Comment on About File Re-writing by lowell

lowell — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:45:53 +0000

Lostify doesn’t currently do anything special about the “iPod atom” in MP4 files. If it’s there already, I believe Lostify leaves it alone; if it’s not present, Lostify doesn’t add it. The documentation for AtomicParsley seems to indicate it can write this tag, but my testing so far has been inconclusive.