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Feature Request: Re-write tags only, not entire file
Would it be possible to just re-write the tags in the file, not re-write the entire file? Somehow the app "Identify" does this; its writes are really fast. MetaX and MetaZ both rewrite the entire file, which can take 10-20 minutes!
Digging a little deeper it becomes clear that actually writing the tags is done by https://bitbucket.org/wez/atomicparsley so if we want this feature that's the place to go, hence: https://bitbucket.org/wez/atomicparsley/issue/39/write-tags-without-rewriting-file
Seems like this may already be a feature of Atomic Parsley: https://bitbucket.org/wez/atomicparsley/issue/39/write-tags-without-rewriting-file#comment-7621565
"The --overWrite (-W) flag should do this. It isn’t enabled by default because this risks corrupting the file in case of, say, a disk error or power loss."
Perhaps we could have an option to enable this in MetaZ for those who perhaps already have a backup of the media file in question?
Off-topic, but this thread has me looking at how to build MetaZ myself. I'm a programmer, but not (yet) in XCode or Objective C, so I'm a little lost with this. I have the project loaded in XCode, but seem to be running into the issues listed here: https://github.com/griff/metaz#building
I'm downloading the 4GB DMG for the old XCode listed there, and think I've completed the other 2 (image resources and AWS). But, the AWS thing has me nervous. AWS states "you only pay for what you use". Well, if I enter my AWS credentials in my copy of Access.h, exactly what AWS services will I be using and what will I be billed for?!?
This is really something targetting @griff but I'm not sure how to directly message him here.
@jimtut - why exactly would you not just create a new issue instead of spamming me? In fact, please don't reply!!!
The current version of MetaX for Windows does NOT rewrite the entire file, so tagging is really fast. It would be perfect if MetaZ could do this too.
