Media library, A note about metadata, Editing metadata – Western Digital WD TV HD Media Player (Gen 1) User Manual User Manual

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SETTINGS AND ADVANCED FEATURES – 52

Media Library

Media Library scans and consolidates the media contents of a USB drive into a
database through which you can easily locate media files. This feature is on by
default.

The following conditions will prevent the Media Library from processing your media.

The USB device has read-only protection.

The USB device is using the HFS+Journaling file system.

There is not enough hard drive space on the USB device. Your HD media player
needs some space to cache information, so that searches and scans are faster.

A note about metadata

Metadata is information about the data in a file that describes how, when, and by
whom a particular set of data (video, music, photographic, or any other type of data)
was collected, and how the data is formatted.

Not all files have metadata loaded. To add and edit metadata so that Media Library
can aggregate the files properly, you can use one of several tools including:

Adobe

®

Bridge (part of the Adobe Creative Suite)

abcAVI Tag Editor (freeware)

XnView 1.93.2 (freeware)

iTunes

Windows Media Player

Editing metadata

Editing metadata with iTunes:

1. Open iTunes and click the song you want to edit.

2. Open the File menu, then click Get Info.

A window opens, showing all of the information you can edit for the song that you
selected. You can edit the song’s:

„

Name

„

Artist

„

Year released

„

Album name

„

Composer

„

Track number

„

Genre

3. When you are done, click OK. To edit the next song listed in your iTunes library,

click Next.

Editing metadata with Windows Media Player:

1. Open Windows Media Player.

2. Click the Library tab.

3. Right-click the title or other item to edit.

4. When the menu opens, click Edit.

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