Found a command line tool which can be used to modify file properties and metatags in mp4 files.
Atomic Parsley
http://atomicparsley.sourceforge.net/
It's pretty old, but I tested it and it works. I also discovered the metadata tag that Windows 7 converts to "Title" in file properties: It is identified below as "cname".
Here are the results of 1 test I did:
This command lists all the metadata tags in the file:
J:\Test>J:\AtomicParsley\AtomicParsley "I Spy-S01E17-Always Say Goodbye.mp4" -t
Atom "ctoo" contains: MCEBuddy
Atom "cnam" contains: I Spy
Atom "tvsh" contains: I Spy
Atom "stik" contains: TV Show
Atom "tven" contains: Always Say Goodbye
Atom "tvsn" contains: 1
Atom "tves" contains: 17
Atom "tvnn" contains: KNBCDT2 (KNBC-DT2)
Atom "gnre" contains: Comedy
Atom "cday" contains: 1966-01-26T00:00:00Z
Atom "desc" contains: The U.S. delegate's hunt for his long-lost love (France Nuyen) endangers a Japanese-American financial conference.
Atom "ldes" contains: The U.S. delegate's hunt for his long-lost love (France Nuyen) endangers a Japanese-American financial conference.
Atom "ccmt" contains: The U.S. delegate's hunt for his long-lost love (France Nuyen) endangers a Japanese-American financial conference.
Atom "covr" contains: 1 piece of artwork
This command inserts the property value I want into a duplicate temp file (here I am changing the Title tag to "Always Say Hello"):
J:\Test>J:\AtomicParsley\AtomicParsley "I Spy-S01E17-Always Say Goodbye.mp4" -- title "Always Say Hello"
Started writing to temp file.
Progress: =============================================>100%|
Finished writing to temp file.
Now I am listing all the metadata tags in the new temp copy file:
J:\Test>J:\AtomicParsley\AtomicParsley "I Spy-S01E17-Always Say Goodbye-temp-16081.mp4" -t
Atom "ctoo" contains: MCEBuddy
Atom "cnam" contains: Always Say Hello (this is also now the value of "Title" in the Windows file properties for this file)
Atom "tvsh" contains: I Spy
Atom "stik" contains: TV Show
Atom "tven" contains: Always Say Goodbye
Atom "tvsn" contains: 1
Atom "tves" contains: 17
Atom "tvnn" contains: KNBCDT2 (KNBC-DT2)
Atom "gnre" contains: Comedy
Atom "cday" contains: 1966-01-26T00:00:00Z
Atom "desc" contains: The U.S. delegate's hunt for his long-lost love (France Nuyen) endangers a Japanese-American financial conference.
Atom "ldes" contains: The U.S. delegate's hunt for his long-lost love (France Nuyen) endangers a Japanese-American financial conference.
Atom "ccmt" contains: The U.S. delegate's hunt for his long-lost love (France Nuyen) endangers a Japanese-American financial conference.
Atom "covr" contains: 1 piece of artwork
Somehow being able to get this to work with MCEBuddy would give us a couple more options and make life much easier for those of us working with Plex.
Atomic Parsley
http://atomicparsley.sourceforge.net/
It's pretty old, but I tested it and it works. I also discovered the metadata tag that Windows 7 converts to "Title" in file properties: It is identified below as "cname".
Here are the results of 1 test I did:
This command lists all the metadata tags in the file:
J:\Test>J:\AtomicParsley\AtomicParsley "I Spy-S01E17-Always Say Goodbye.mp4" -t
Atom "ctoo" contains: MCEBuddy
Atom "cnam" contains: I Spy
Atom "tvsh" contains: I Spy
Atom "stik" contains: TV Show
Atom "tven" contains: Always Say Goodbye
Atom "tvsn" contains: 1
Atom "tves" contains: 17
Atom "tvnn" contains: KNBCDT2 (KNBC-DT2)
Atom "gnre" contains: Comedy
Atom "cday" contains: 1966-01-26T00:00:00Z
Atom "desc" contains: The U.S. delegate's hunt for his long-lost love (France Nuyen) endangers a Japanese-American financial conference.
Atom "ldes" contains: The U.S. delegate's hunt for his long-lost love (France Nuyen) endangers a Japanese-American financial conference.
Atom "ccmt" contains: The U.S. delegate's hunt for his long-lost love (France Nuyen) endangers a Japanese-American financial conference.
Atom "covr" contains: 1 piece of artwork
This command inserts the property value I want into a duplicate temp file (here I am changing the Title tag to "Always Say Hello"):
J:\Test>J:\AtomicParsley\AtomicParsley "I Spy-S01E17-Always Say Goodbye.mp4" -- title "Always Say Hello"
Started writing to temp file.
Progress: =============================================>100%|
Finished writing to temp file.
Now I am listing all the metadata tags in the new temp copy file:
J:\Test>J:\AtomicParsley\AtomicParsley "I Spy-S01E17-Always Say Goodbye-temp-16081.mp4" -t
Atom "ctoo" contains: MCEBuddy
Atom "cnam" contains: Always Say Hello (this is also now the value of "Title" in the Windows file properties for this file)
Atom "tvsh" contains: I Spy
Atom "stik" contains: TV Show
Atom "tven" contains: Always Say Goodbye
Atom "tvsn" contains: 1
Atom "tves" contains: 17
Atom "tvnn" contains: KNBCDT2 (KNBC-DT2)
Atom "gnre" contains: Comedy
Atom "cday" contains: 1966-01-26T00:00:00Z
Atom "desc" contains: The U.S. delegate's hunt for his long-lost love (France Nuyen) endangers a Japanese-American financial conference.
Atom "ldes" contains: The U.S. delegate's hunt for his long-lost love (France Nuyen) endangers a Japanese-American financial conference.
Atom "ccmt" contains: The U.S. delegate's hunt for his long-lost love (France Nuyen) endangers a Japanese-American financial conference.
Atom "covr" contains: 1 piece of artwork
Somehow being able to get this to work with MCEBuddy would give us a couple more options and make life much easier for those of us working with Plex.