Media management, storage systems and video servers all employ varying degrees of metadata to keep track of the assets stored on their systems. Metadata is essential to the success of file-based ...

Where is the best place to file metadata about a multimedia file, such as a video or photograph? Why not on the file itself? This is the approach that the Navy Video News Service is taking by ...

You can tell a lot about a document by its metadata, such as when the document was created, who created it, the time of its last edits, and more. Document Metadata Cleaner helps you to keep this ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: I’m at my wits’ end! No search strategy has yielded success. I have 20 files that comprise an audiobook. In ...

Content indexing works well for finding files that contain text, but it's no help when searching for non-text data. Brien's workaround is to take advantage of Windows 10's file metadata feature. As ...

Whenever you capture an image from a camera or a mobile phone, image metadata is automatically generated and stored along with the image file. The image metadata can be read, and some fields can be ...

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I am a PC network administrator that also manages about 6-8 Macintosh users.<P>Most Mac files are kept on a W2K files server running File Services for Macintosh and appletalk. The W2K server is ...

This is driving me crazy. I have a workflow where I combine many (30+) m4a files into one large one and adding metadata to the file, including artwork. This is how I have done it so far: Combine the ...

Apple's iCloud file storage service is a handy way to store and share files, but it can remove important file attributes during sync. Here's how to fix that. Apple's macOS and some other operating ...