[jchrist]

Hi there,

I got a collection of free ebooks from a friend, which they had already put into iTunes, and thus iTunes has added an iTunesMetadata.plist file into the epub.

However, the metadata in that file is wrong, or at least not what I would choose.

For instance, I have a book where I've edited the title in calibre to be "On Basilisk Station", (the actual title) instead of what's in the iTunesMetadata.plist file "On Basilisk Station: The First Honor Harrington Novel", and I've set the series and book number appropriately as well.

I have about 35 books which I've edited the metadata in a similar fashion. Everything shows up perfectly in calibre.

However, when I connect to iTunes and add those books to my iTunes library, the iTunes driver uses the pre-existing iTunesMetadata.plist file instead of creating a new one with the current metadata, so the books show up in iTunes with the old, incorrect metadata.

Basically, if an epub already has that .plist file, it can not be used to edit iTunes' metadata as the original file rules.

As I use calibre primarily as an organizational/management tool for iTunes this is somewhat of a problem.

Is there a feature which will remove a pre-existing iTunesMetadata.plist file from epub files? If not, can such a feature be created?

I could manually unzip each file, remove the .plist and then re-zip them, but that's a laborious and error-prone process, and I don't imagine I'm the only one who has or will have this problem.

Thanks,
Jon