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cgraving · 01-16-2011, 11:16 AM

I am using Calibre 0.7.18 on ubuntu and was looking for a way to update the meta data in a large number of files. The issue is that all the book titles contain both the title and author, then the author is shown as unknown. I was wondering if there was anyway to separate these fields, get the fetch metadata to work?

If not or the only answer is plugin, can someone point me in the write direction. I went to create one and I need to read the meta data, parse, then write the meta data. I would like it to be a new option in the UI to trigger the plugin. I couldn't decide which type of plugin to create. Obvious at first was MetadataWriter plugin, then I wondered about reading. then I was wondering about the UI pluin type as I don't want this to run on every book that I get meta data for, just ones I have selected when I tell the plugin to run.

Direction would be awesome!

Thanks,
Carl

01-16-2011, 11:16 AM	#1
cgraving Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Kindle 3	Parsing Titles I am using Calibre 0.7.18 on ubuntu and was looking for a way to update the meta data in a large number of files. The issue is that all the book titles contain both the title and author, then the author is shown as unknown. I was wondering if there was anyway to separate these fields, get the fetch metadata to work? If not or the only answer is plugin, can someone point me in the write direction. I went to create one and I need to read the meta data, parse, then write the meta data. I would like it to be a new option in the UI to trigger the plugin. I couldn't decide which type of plugin to create. Obvious at first was MetadataWriter plugin, then I wondered about reading. then I was wondering about the UI pluin type as I don't want this to run on every book that I get meta data for, just ones I have selected when I tell the plugin to run. Direction would be awesome! Thanks, Carl