Guide: How to Add Metadata to Ripped TV Shows and Movies in iTunes
When you purchase a movie from the iTunes Store, it will appear in your iTunes library with official artwork, plot outline, cast and crew information, and other relevant metadata. However, if you import your own ripped DVDs and Blu-rays, you will get a completely different experience. Movies manually imported into iTunes appear in the folder ‘Home Movies ”category and are missing all metadata and illustrations.Users can manually edit certain metadata for imported movies, such as title, year, and artwork, but certain information – including plot summaries, cast and crew, and MPAA rating – cannot be edited by the user using the standard iTunes interface. Fortunately, Mac users can add full metadata to their ripped movies with the help of a third-party utility called Subler. Here’s how it works: First, download Subler from the project’s website. The version used for this and shown in the screenshots tip is 1.0.9. Extract the downloaded file to display the Subler app and double click to launch it. Unlike most apps, Subler will just show up in your Dock and show no windows or interface until we give it a file to process; so let’s move on to the next step: Find the movie file to which you want to add metadata. It must be a file compatible with iTunes – say a movie ripped with one of the Apple TV or iPad presets in Handbrake – and it cannot be protected with DRM. In others words: you cannot use Subler to change the metadata of your purchased movies from within iTunes; rather it can only be used with files that you have encrypted yourself or obtained from DRM-free sources (if they exist). If the movie you want to change is already in your iTunes library (deleted by selecting it and pressing remove on your keyboard), delete it by selecting it and pressing remove again on your keyboard (this is because Apple will
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Adding metadata to ripped TV shows and movies in iTunes can help you find and enjoy the content more easily. ..
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