Re: Comment on iTunesMetadata in mp4v2

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Comment by j...@gaelicwizard.net:

After some research, I've verified the following:

atID: Artist ID. This uniquely identifies the Artist in the "©ART"
atom. Note that on TV Shows, the Artist is recorded as the full name of the
show (e.g., "The West Wing"). Also note that on Movies, the Artist is the
director.

plID: Album ID. This uniquely identifies the Album in the "©alb" atom.
Note that on TV Shows, the Album is recorded as the full name of the show
_and_ the season (e.g., "The West Wing, Season 5"). Note that this atom is
absent from Movies from the iTunes Store. Note that this value may be set
to 0 (zero) on Music Videos.


For files from the iTunes Store, these values are duplicated in embedded
plist and can be cross-referenced there.

—JP

For more information:
http://code.google.com/p/mp4v2/wiki/iTunesMetadata

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Comment by j...@gaelicwizard.net:

After some research, I've verified the following:

atID: Artist ID. This uniquely identifies the Artist in the "©ART"
atom. Note that on TV Shows, the Artist is recorded as the full name of the
show (e.g., "The West Wing"). Also note that on Movies, the Artist is the
director.

plID: Album ID. This uniquely identifies the Album in the "©alb" atom.
Note that on TV Shows, the Album is recorded as the full name of the show
_and_ the season (e.g., "The West Wing, Season 5"). Note that this atom is
absent from Movies from the iTunes Store. Note that this value may be set
to 0 (zero) on Music Videos.

For files from the iTunes Store, these values are duplicated in the

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Comment by j...@gaelicwizard.net:

Also, AtomicParsley reports stik "5" as "Whacked Bookmark". I do not know
of ever encountering anything so tagged.

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Comment by santinof...@gmail.com:

./AtomicParsley --genre-movie-id-list
Available iTunes Movie Genre IDs:
(4401) Action & Adventure
(4402) Anime
(4403) Classics
(4404) Comedy
(4405) Documentary
(4406) Drama
(4407) Foreign
(4408) Horror
(4409) Independent
(4410) Kids & Family
(4411) Musicals
(4412) Romance
(4413) Sci-Fi & Fantasy
(4414) Short Films
(4415) Special Interest
(4416) Thriller
(4417) Sports
(4418) Western
(4419) Urban
(4420) Holiday
(4421) Made for TV
(4422) Concert Films
(4423) Music Documentaries
(4424) Music Feature Films
(4425) Japanese Cinema
(4426) Jidaigeki
(4427) Tokusatsu
(4428) Korean Cinema

./AtomicParsley --genre-tv-id-list
Available iTunes TV Genre IDs:
(4000) Comedy
(4001) Drama
(4002) Animation
(4003) Action & Adventure
(4004) Classic
(4005) Kids
(4005) Nonfiction
(4007) Reality TV
(4008) Sci-Fi & Fantasy
(4009) Sports
(4010) Teens
(4011) Latino TV

This is used in iTunes on the pull down where ratings are. The 2 values it
wants in this pull down are cnID and geID. Without the values it makes
guesses. geID does not have to match genre.

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Comment by daryk.h...@gmail.com:

*atID* is the _Artist ID_ used by iTunes and *plID* is the _Album ID_ they
use.

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Comment by maxr...@gmail.com:

To me it looks like the rtng tag is not 2 (CLEAN) and 4 (EXPLICIT) but 1
(EXPLICIT) and 2 (CLEAN). Can someone confirm?

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Comment by EKhabar...@gmail.com:

Full List of iTunes Genre IDs available here :
http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/documentation/genre-mapping.html

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Comment by daryk.h...@gmail.com:

There may be an 'fcID' as well, relating to a studio or TV Station... I
right clicked on a station in iTunes and got:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewRoom?fcId=270066278
for CTV, a Canadian broadcaster.

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Comment by janfu...@gmail.com:

The values for rtng have changed: 0=None 1=Explicit 2=Clean !

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Comment by botsm...@gmail.com:

The hdvd tag also has three values:

0 - SD (Standard Definition)
1 - HD (High Definition 720p)
2 - HD (High Definition 1080p)

For more information:
https://code.google.com/p/mp4v2/wiki/iTunesMetadata

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Comment by botsm...@gmail.com:

The hdvd tag also has three values:

* 0 - SD (Standard Definition)
* 1 - HD (High Definition 720p)
* 2 - HD (High Definition 1080p)

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Comment by BumBarBa...@gmail.com:

It's missing "Sdes" that TV Shows use for "Season Description"

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Comment by francois...@gmail.com:

The iTunes Store Country Codes (sfID) tag has many more values today (155
countries). I extracted the full list with:
https://gist.github.com/fbonzon/11066432

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Comment by and...@azmyth.com:

how can we edit these or implement these into subler. Especially purchase
ID and Purchase Date.

The ability to have the file appear as authentic itunes files being the
goal.

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Comment by x43x61...@gmail.com:

I've create a tool that can edit almost all the iTunes metadata:
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/51220/metarminator

See if it helps.

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Comment by chiching...@gmail.com:

cnid is can be found in the url
for ex: Justine bieber flatline
(https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/flatline-single/id784164429)
the cnid is (784164429) you can test it yourself

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Comment by chiching...@gmail.com:

I haven't found the tag for "purchased by" but this article (
http://www.codez4mac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=198&t=72009 )can help u edit
it or find it but i still haven't found the tag name...Still searching

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Comment by mayankgu...@gmail.com:

Editing the Purchased by is very easy .

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Comment by chiching...@gmail.com:

Reply: mayankgu...@gmail.com
Editing a purchased .m4a file's "purchased by" tag really is easy but what
i was really trying to do was add it to .m4a songs i personally encoded.

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Comment by jake.wak...@gmail.com:

It appears that some metadata is handled differently. For example, actors,
directors, producers, and screenwriters are encoded into an xml format. You
can see this in by using Atomic Parsely to examine a file, and in
[https://github.com/griff/metaz/blob/develop/Plugins/AtomicParsley/src/AtomicParsleyPlugin.m#L871-L873
these lines] of the MetaZ source code you can see the dictionary being
converted to XML. The rest of this file, especially starting from line 635
shows other pieces of metadata that are handled specially.