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iDentify is an OS X application for tagging iTunes compatible MP4 video files.
Normally, when you convert a video file to the format used by iOS devices such as the iPad, iPod, iPhone or AppleTV, all the information about the video is missing! The only thing you see is the name of the file where the title of the video should be! Enter iDentify 2!
iDentify 2 looks at the name of files as they are added to it. Based on the name of the file, iDentify determines wether it is a TV Show or movie based on common naming conventions. From the file name, a lot of information
Normally, when you convert a video file to the format used by iOS devices such as the iPad, iPod, iPhone or AppleTV, all the information about the video is missing! The only thing you see is the name of the file where the title of the video should be! Enter iDentify 2!
iDentify 2 looks at the name of files as they are added to it. Based on the name of the file, iDentify determines wether it is a TV Show or movie based on common naming conventions. From the file name, a lot of information
What's New
Version 477:
FIXED:
- Changes to tagChimp lookups at the request of tagChimp
Requirements
Intel, Intel Mac OS X 10.5 or later
Intel, Intel Mac OS X 10.5 or later
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| Version Downloads:9,387 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Video |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:07 Oct 2011 |
| Platform:Intel |
| Price: $9.95 |
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iDentify is an OS X application for tagging iTunes compatible MP4 video files.
Normally, when you convert a video file to the format used by iOS devices such as the iPad, iPod, iPhone or AppleTV, all the information about the video is missing! The only thing you see is the name of the file where the title of the video should be! Enter iDentify 2!
iDentify 2 looks at the name of files as they are added to it. Based on the name of the file, iDentify determines wether it is a TV Show or movie based on common naming conventions. From the file name, a lot of information can be gleaned, such as movie title, show name, season number, episode number, year of release, and imdb code. iDentify can then automatically look on The TVDB, The Movie DB, and tagChimp to gather more information about the title, such as description, rating, chapter names and more! iDentify also inspects the file and can automatically turn on the HD flag on the movie when the resolution of the file goes above a set minimum!
iDentify not find your video? fixing it is easy! Simply edit the movie title or show name to match that found on theMovieDB.org, or theTVDB.com (respectively) and click rescan!
Want to change the tags of multiple files in one fell swoop? No problem! Add the files to iDentify, select all the ones you want to edit from the list, and click edit. All changes you make are now applied to all selected files!
When you are done, just click "Process Files" to write the new information to your files, and when iDentify is done, you are ready to add your videos to iTunes!
Want even more automation?
You can optionally choose to register the software for the low cost of 9.95. When you register, you will be emailed a registration key that unlocks the following:
Normally, when you convert a video file to the format used by iOS devices such as the iPad, iPod, iPhone or AppleTV, all the information about the video is missing! The only thing you see is the name of the file where the title of the video should be! Enter iDentify 2!
iDentify 2 looks at the name of files as they are added to it. Based on the name of the file, iDentify determines wether it is a TV Show or movie based on common naming conventions. From the file name, a lot of information can be gleaned, such as movie title, show name, season number, episode number, year of release, and imdb code. iDentify can then automatically look on The TVDB, The Movie DB, and tagChimp to gather more information about the title, such as description, rating, chapter names and more! iDentify also inspects the file and can automatically turn on the HD flag on the movie when the resolution of the file goes above a set minimum!
iDentify not find your video? fixing it is easy! Simply edit the movie title or show name to match that found on theMovieDB.org, or theTVDB.com (respectively) and click rescan!
Want to change the tags of multiple files in one fell swoop? No problem! Add the files to iDentify, select all the ones you want to edit from the list, and click edit. All changes you make are now applied to all selected files!
When you are done, just click "Process Files" to write the new information to your files, and when iDentify is done, you are ready to add your videos to iTunes!
Want even more automation?
You can optionally choose to register the software for the low cost of 9.95. When you register, you will be emailed a registration key that unlocks the following:
- Automatically add files to iTunes after being processed
- Automatic file renaming to any naming convention you choose!
- Option to mark your files with a green label in Finder after iDentify has finished processing them
- Option to automatically process files and quit iDentify when files are added
- My gratitude
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aoumslam reviewed on 30 Dec 2011
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Gbbuddy reviewed on 19 Oct 2011
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Jc_supastar reviewed on 04 May 2011
It's hands down the best, fastest and easiest to use program for adding metaData to you movies.
Very active developer. (That listens)
Love it.
Definitely worth full price if not more.
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benwalkernz reviewed on 04 Apr 2011
Just one thing I've come across today, I ripped The O.C. TV series onto my computer, and when I imported the episodes into iDentify to tag them - it didn't find any match for the metadata / artwork on The TVDB. I'm guessing this is because of the fullstops in the show name (this is how it is listed on The TVDB, as The O.C. with two full stops). It seems as though iDentify removes the full stops when its scanning for data so it searches for The O C which won't return any matches. Any chance of a fix for this?
Thanks again for such a great app!
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Just-Annutha-Dewd reviewed on 03 Apr 2011
My only other real quibble at this point would be the TagChimp support. As before, TagChimp is an absolute disaster of a database, but I find it valuable in that the other metadata sources don't keep chapter titling data, while TagChimp does. Unfortunately, iDentify seems to automatically accept the first "hit" it gets when matching a show or movie to TagChimp's database, when there are usually several other hits available that have better information. This is especially problematic with TV shows. I'll run a full season of, say, Dexter, and get hits for chapter titles on 5 out of 12 episodes. Somewhere on TagChimp, there likely are the titles available for the other episodes, but I can't manually parse them like I can in MetaX. Hopefully the developer can come up with a way to let users manually parse multiple TagChimp hits without making iDentify overly complicated in the process. Barring that, perhaps an option to simply tell it to not write the chapter information if, after retrieving it, I don't want to use it.
One other suggestion if it's feasible… keyboard equivalents for the various toolbar commands would be awesome. Oftentimes, I find using keyboard commands preferable to using the mouse, and when flipping through multiple titles while reviewing or editing tags, it would be very helpful to be able to use the keyboard navigate to the next (or previous) file while leaving my mouse cursor closer to a field or other location I expect to need to click on frequently as well.
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the ability to select other results is long standing on my to do list. just trying to figure out the best way to handle it, and havent come up with anything i liked yet.
more keyboard shortcuts will probably be in the next version or two. i have had A LOT of requests for that lately.
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Timmehrees reviewed on 02 Apr 2011
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as long as you are currently in the Applications directory that will work :-) Rather Happy with that!
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'open -a "iDentify" filename filename filename' to send the files to iDentify
turn on automatically process added files and quit (registered version only)
turn on finder color labels (registered version only)
then either have hazel watch the folder you tag in for files with a green label (indicating the tagging process has been completed), and do more processing with hazel,
or turn on "add to iTunes" in preferences (registered version only)
and be done with it! You could even take advantage of the auto renaming features if you want your files named just so.
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Any thoughts on just a simple "watch folder" feature?
Have to say kudos on your app gleaning the show info from variously named video files. Doesn't seem to like shows like Colbert Report which aren't really listed by S##E## formats. Would be great to be able to just arbitrarily tag those as "TV Show" even if it can't find the tag info.
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Steven_Sky reviewed on 25 Mar 2011
But one thing is keeping me from buying -> the GUI is plain ugly and outdated.
Make it more a OS X-alike look and I definitely buy a registration.
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there arent any other useable toolbar items to customize with, so customization was been disabled. thats probably why the icon and text only options are gone as well.
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Thadgins reviewed on 24 Mar 2011
Question: Why is it HIGHLY recommend you turn off optimizing after tagging if it's on an External hard drive? I have all of my visual media on an external drive and want it to re-write the tags and everything. Will this cause a problem, or just take a while?
Plus, on external drives, for some reason, original files dont always get moved to the trash, or replaced by the temp files which also get left behind. Yet these functions perform exactly as expected on internal drives. Programmatically, there is no difference between the two. From a programmatic standpoint, its a path, just like every other, so why it happens I don't yet know.
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However, after updating to the recent build, now when I optimize, it converts the file to a unix executable file, instead of leaving as a .m4v. I've lost 3 season of dvds now. How do I fix this problem?
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Freshwreckage reviewed on 16 Feb 2011
Other than that I love the way that it does NOT corrupt my movie files like MetaX. Nothing worse than sitting down to watch a movie only to discover that you have black and sound or picture with no sound. Thanks for all the hard work!!!
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Oh, and its only a single dude involved in the development of this.
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If this program would work, I would most definately buy it, since it does exactly what I need!
I've named my TV episodes as
Show - S[Season]E[Episode]
Can I configure iDentify2 to automatically use this when querying thetvdb.com ?
Steve
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That said, your naming format will work just fine, and is the preferred format of the author (me).
One thing to note though, by default, existing tags in the file will trump any info gleaned from the file name. You can change this in the Lookup preferences by changing the drop down from "Read tag information from files" to "Ignore all tag information from files"
(Apologies for the children's show as an example!)
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The IMDB code does work, but it was only ever intended for movies, since the tvdb does not allow lookup via imdb code. The IMDB is not a source that iDentify uses, as it is against the IMDBs' terms of service, and I don't need any lawyers knocking on my door for using them. However, theMovieDB does allow us to do lookups based on the IMDB code, but they only provide info for movies.
Any time you have trouble doing a look up, visit the source site. in this case, thetvdb.com, and search for the series you are trying to tag. Then copy and paste the series name in to the show name field and click rescan. You can apply this change to an entire series at a time by selecting multiple files from the file list then clicking edit.
The names do need to be rather precise. A correct show name and episode id should be all you need for a tv show look up. episode name is not needed or used to get a match. This was a design decision I had to make early on. I felt that taking a moment to match the file names when creating the files or the small tweak during scanning was preferable to having a false positive, resulting in incorrect data being written to the file.
Oh, and sorry it took so long to reply. I do check macupdate frequently, but since "trouble" comments are now on a separate page, your post got unintentionally overlooked until now.
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If you are really that unhappy with the software, I'll be glad to refund your money and deactivate your registration code.
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I am starting to import my fav tv shows.
I have imported all 7 seasons of Star Trek The Next Generation but, when I try and clean it up in identify, it doesn't find anything.
I am mostly sure that it is a formatting issue with the naming convention but, not sure how to proceed as all my efforts have failed. Works great with the movies though. Help?
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Do this. Drag and drop your ST:TNG files into iDentify. You might want to turn off the auto lookups first to save some time.
Select all the files in the file list and click edit tags.
In the show name field, enter "Star Trek: The Next Generation"
Assuming the file names already contained a season and episode number, those should be filled in automatically, though you wont see them when multiple files are selected. Show name, season # and episode # are all that are needed to perform lookups. You can then click rescan, and iDentify will search out all the information for you.
The data will be saved to the files once you click process files.
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I go to TagChimp.com, log in and there are two entries for Star Trek - The Motion Picture. Even though I renamed my file to be exactly the same as the entry on the web site, I still get no results.
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As mentioned above, if you don't want it in the file name, just edit the title tag, and click rescan. It will only get put into the file name after writing if you are registered and have the renaming option enabled.
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Thanks again to the DEV. And yes, I will be registering. Software like this is indispensable, and people should support the efforts of Independent Developers.
For some reason I can't post star ratings, but if I could this app and this dev would be 5 STARS.
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I would very much like to fix this bug.
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