Using iDentify is easy. Simply select the files you want to tag, and drop them on the iDentify application. iDentify looks at the file name, and looks up information for the title based on the info found in the file name, and inserts that information into the file. Lookups use the TVDB ( http://www.thetvdb.com ) for TV shows, and the IMDB for movies.
iDentify lets you tag batches of files; tag an entire seasons worth (or more!) of tv series in one go!
You can also provide images to be added into the artwork tag of the video file. To do so for movies, make the name of the image file the same as the video file you want it applied to. For tv shows, name the image file the same as the name of the Series it will be applied to. iDentify currently does not differentiate images by season. So an image named “Dexter.jpg” for example, would be applied to all episode of Dexter, regardless of season. If you want separate images for each season, Do each season as a separate batch.
Don’t want to drop files on iDentify? Thats not problem either. Just run iDentify like you would any other application, and it will prompt you for files. Select an entire list of consecutive files by holding down the shift key and selecting the first and last file names in the list, or hold the command key to select multiple, individual files that need not be consecutive.
Because iDentify looks up meta data based on information found in the file name, the more info you put in the file name the better. For tv shows, you should include the series name, the season number, the episode number, at a minimum. I choose to also include the episode title.
My TV show file names look something like this: “Lost – S01E02 – Some Episode Title.m4v” To provide an image for this file, it should be named “Lost.jpg” (or .png)
Just a reminder though, you are not restricted to using the same naming conventions I do. Any naming convention you use should work just fine!
For movies, to get the best results, you should include the year in the movie title. For example: “The Incredible Hulk [2008].m4v”. An image for this video should be named “The Incredible Hulk [2008].jpg” (or .png)
iDentify also can optionally send Growl notifications.
Supports mp4 and m4v media files and jpg or png image files.
The data written to the files (when available) are as follows:
- Episode or Movie Title
- Description
- Episode Number
- Episode ID (generated automatically based on Season and Episode in the format SxxExx)
- Season Number
- Series Name
- Original Air Date/Release Date/Year
- Cast (Actors)
- Directors
- Writers
- Producers
- TV Network
- Genre
- Video Type (Movie or TV Show)
- Rating (Currently only MPAA and US TV Ratings only)
- Artwork (provided as a file by user)
- Track number/Total Tracks
- Disk Number/Total Discs
- Fixed problem preventing TV series with ampersands (&) from being detected correctly and added a backslash (\) before ampersands in descriptions
- Added optional ability to label completed files in finder with colors corresponding to its tagged status. ie: Green for complete, Red for lookup failed, and orange for a successful lookup, but no artwork found.
Version 20091010:- Fixed problem that prevented detected title information from being written to the file.
- Fixed a bug with preferences that could reset getMovieArtwork to 0
Version 20091009:
- Will now find all tv episodes that are available on the TVDB, even ones
- from new seasons. (previous had issues finding new episodes)
- Forced period detection: replace periods with a ^ (iDentify tends to treat periods as delimiters to facilitated the plethora of file naming conventions. Alas, this can cause issues with show names that actually need a period for the lookup to succeed. You can now force a period to be treated as a period by substituting it with a carat ^)
- various bug fixes, mainly having to do with special characters in descriptions.
- Updated growlnotify and fixed issues caused by new version
