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Old 04-06-2013, 05:09 PM   #1
Le_noir
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Bulk Set metadata from file info

Hi folks; long time user of Calibre, first-time poster. I've been importing, and expect to import many more, works that benefit from the "Set the metadata for the book from the selected format" option in the upper/right corner of the Edit Metadata box. Because of the number of works, I wanted to find a way to have those option applied to a group of works in bulk, or at a minimum upon initial import.

Since the "Edit Metadata in bulk" option does provide a similar functionality for covers via "Change cover/Set from ebook file", I have hopes that my searches of this forum and the Calibre docs have simply not hit the right option; perhaps it's in a plugin I've missed or a command-line tool? For example, since not all of these works have ISBN numbers in the text, use of the "Extract ISBN" plugin has been iffy at best over a large set of works, whereas the Set metadata option is 90%+ reliable, and thus preferred by me.

If worse comes to worse, I'd be happy to write and give back to the community a plugin if there's interest, but first I wanted to see if I'm just missing functionality.

Thanks for reading!
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