Thread: [GUI Plugin] Media File Importer
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Old 08-11-2016, 10:30 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by DaltonST View Post
The Calibre server is a book server, not a multimedia server. MFI is for organizing media files in Calibre, especially images. The cover of images will be the images if the dynamic variable is set to {path}. I use Calibre to view all of my pictures organized with the metadata determined dynamically.
Calibre is perfectly capable of managing these files if you tell calibre about them. If you do, then changing the titles through the calibre interface will keep the files in the appropriate place. As it is, calibre will not move these files and they will be lost. For an example of this, have a look at the recent discussion in the plugin request about sewing patterns.

What calibre won't do is extract metadata from inside the files. But, it can extract the metadata from the filename during the add process. And someone could write a metadata reader and writer to allow calibre to extract and update the metadata. One already exists for MP3 Audio books. Creating one for video would be possible. And for "covers", a metadata source is needed to pull the cover from an appropriate source.
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