Ok so you’ve taken all of your illegally pirated videos and converted them into MP4s to play on your oh so cool little iPod, but you’ve got one problem: iTunes won’t let you edit certain information on your files.
While it’s true that Apple has made it incredibly easy to edit the ID3 tags on you MP3s and add additional information to your movies, it does reserve certain categories for “official use” (only to be used by Apple). For example: the release dates on TV Shows. Unless you download the latest copy of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles from iTunes, when you view it on your iPod you will be greeted by the message “Unknown Release Date” underneath the file name. I have teh OCD so this bugs me… A LOT!
Editing metadata on MP4s admittedly is not a new topic, but finding a program that works on Vista 64 is, well at least to my Google search results it was because they were more than helpless. So don’t you worry all you early adopters of technology, I have the answer… Tagger. Tagger is a rather easy to use Java based program that allows you to edit almost all of the metadata contained in your MP4s as you can see:
Very simple to use, just open the file you want to edit, change/add the information needed, save, and voila; no more OCD induced panic attacks when you peruse you iTunes library.
The only problem that I have with this program is that when you edit the release date on a file, once it’s saved, it changes the release date to the day before the one that you’ve entered. For example: if the release date of the new Sarah Connor Chronicles was 9-8-2008, it would show up in iTunes as 9-7-2008. I’m not quite sure how or why it does this but the easy work around for this is to just add one to the release date that you want and it will show the correct date.
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