Keeping all metadata after archiving/burning
Hello.
I am looking for some info about how to stop metadata to delete itself when a track/tv episode/film is burned/copied. This seems to happen in various ways. Just copying a file to the desktop just leaves the name/artist/album etc., I guess these are the so-called ID3-tags. Fine. And if I burn a playlist to a DVD and then rip it back into iTunes, I get the ID3-tags plus PlayCount and my stars. But how do I do to archive a season/film/album etc. without losing LastPlayed for example, or comments? Say I have enjoyed Lost, Season 1, I have given the episodes stars, made some comments, and all columns in iTunes show lovely organized PlayDates and other niceties – and now I want to archive it because of space issues. Then in a couple of months I want to revisit this season and relive it again on my iPod on a trip… Of course, I'd like my metadata intact, don't I?
So, have I missed and obvious solution for this, or is this what I have to get used to if I ever remove something from iTunes?
Thanks in advance.
Richard.
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2 GHz – 2 GB RAM - 100 GB HD - SuperDrive
Unfortunately, as ever, there's no free lunch.
Gigabytes are gigabytes, no matter where you put them.
I've got some 90gb in my iMovie file, and there's no dirt-cheap 100gb drive.
If you click-open the iMovie project, you might be able to get the individual files out and burned onto DVDs, and thus be able to (painfully) reassemble it later with the project file.
You could also save each clip to disk out of iMovie.
If your company has some terabyte space they're not using, you could always park the files in a dark corner and hope nobody notices...
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