Hello,
I am a beginner at creating metadata, and I am trying to add tags/info to my video collection. I have a few questions about adding specific SimpleTags to my videos. I would like to use the new Windows Media Player for Windows 11 to play the videos. When a video is playing on there, you can view the metadata under Properties inside the player:
So far, I have been able to add SimpleTags for Genre and Subtitle but not any of the other fields:
I was wondering if someone could help me with the specifics on getting the other tags and fields filled out? Things like Contributing Artists, Year, Resolution. For example, does Year technically need a RELEASE_DATE tag? Is it created as a SimpleTag or just Tag? Does Resolution need to be broken into HEIGHT and WIDTH?
I am not sure if the new Windows Media Player 11 uses its own tags, or if I am doing this wrong. I am needing details, syntax. Again, I was able to add Genre and Subtitle, so I think I’m on the right track. I am currently adding tags with a program called chapterEditor, but if I need to create an xml file, I can.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Use Mp3tag (by Florian), as it will do it automatically for you, so you don’t have to worry much if RELEASE_DATE is equal to YEAR. Of course it’s still limited to what Mp3tag’s author implemented himself. Some are universal like Title which if you put something into the Title box in Mp3tag, then such title will appear in players no matter the format (eg. even if mp3, mkv, ogg, etc.).
Now there are custom tags which you could put in yourself using Mp3tag, by customizing the boxes/fields in Mp3tag. You could then save your layout/template and reload for different scenarios, like say different for movies. So you could put in as many custom as you like, since the Matroska container supports such after all anyway.
Do note that no matter how much you try to put in as many tags/metadata, no matter how much you try to match the correct tags with one another, many players just don’t support displaying them.
You could then use chapterEditor to inspect what Mp3tag put inside your Matroska file.
WARNING: Be careful though, there’s a bug in the normal version of 3.26 which auto-deletes the Matroska Title after saving with Mp3tag. But such bug has been fixed since Beta version 3.26b. So just download and use for now the latest Beta which is version 3.26f.
