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arauchfuss
Comic Metadata and spotlight importer
Equivalent to tags for MP3 files. Initially would only work for zip/cbz files as appending an XML file to them is easy.
This would be enormously useful. Probably have a light weight stand alone app to do this to encourage adoption of the standard.
After thinking about it some, the data will be stored in a file extended attributes. This allows for more archive types and does not affect an archive's hash. XML will still be supported mainly for transport though.
Have you considered using the same ComicBookInfo format, so the metadata would be compatible with other comic book apps? http://docs.google.com/View?id=dcs4kx8q_756xdtv7gg
Thank you for the heads up. Another user sent it to me and I emailed the comicbooklover dev. We will probably collaborate on the standard.
Hi. I'm looking at doing a metadata editor for comics and I've found there're essentially these standards.
-ComicBookInfo's ZIP-comment-based JSON metadata. Used in ComicBookLover (works only for cbz). Fast, solid, open -ComicBookInfo's Extended Attributes metadata. Used in ComicBookLover (mostly for cbr). Fast, fragile, proprietary ---- xattr -p com.bitcartel.comicbooklover.xattr.metadata filename.cbr
-ComicRack's ComicInfo.xml file, embedded in the compressed file. Slow, solid, all-formats -ComicRack's NTFS secondary stream containing preferential ComicInfo.xml. Fast, fragile, proprietary
I'm sure I saw a different XML format somewhere and I know Comicrack's XML is being extended (for example, this project to overlay translations: http://comicinfoeditor.codeplex.com/ )
In the end what format did you choose? I use Simple Comic at home, but I don't remember any mention of metadata support.
