Houdahspot delete unused tag5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() (Debug) Import: Attributes for file /Users/pierre/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/Music/Compilations/Jagged Little Pill/12 Wake Up. ![]() Fewer windows When you start a new search, you may want to close earlier searches that you no longer need. Thus the Spotlight database has kbit/s values for M4A files, but bit/s value for MP3 files. In HoudahSpot > Preferences > Tags you can now set up keyboard shortcuts to add or remove tags from selected search results. Thus CoreMedia.mdimporter should return a value of 128000.Ĭonversely /System/Library/Spotlight/Audio.mdimporter reports correct values for MP3 files it imports. Mdimport -d4 "/Volumes/Media/iTunes Music/Compilations/Jagged Little Pill/12 Wake Up.m4a"ĬoreMedia.mdimporter reports a audio bit rate of 128 bit/s. Here are his more specialized technical reports: Pierre submitted this information to Apple The older version of CoreMedia.importer provided title, album, track number, author, composer, … The Lion version of CoreMedia.importer provides only basic information: just file attributes and a bogus audio bit rate. Those are stored by Spotlight and thus searchable. The role of the importer is to process the file into a list of metadata attributes and values. ![]() Whenever you modify a file on the system, Spotlight searches for an importer plug-in to process the file. The problem is that the CoreMedia.importer does not forward this information to Spotlight. I noticed this both in Spotlight itself, and in Houdah Spot, which is a very advanced front end for Spotlight. I noticed the problem with sound files - you search for a specific piece of information (a tag) and it just can't find it. I'm curious if anyone else has yet encountered this problem. My friend, Pierre Bernard of Houdah Software, figured out what was going on. ![]()
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