Calibre Metadata

[toolman]

Metadata not showing up after importing books into Calibre. Metadata shows up in the windows file explorer Calibre folder.
I have to go into Calibre edit metadata and download metadata to get it to show up.
Is there a setting i have wrong? It happens on EPUB, AZW3, Mobi

[BetterRed]

Check your Add Books settings, viz:



BR

[toolman]

My box was already checked, Calibre is updated to the latest version also.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by toolman

Metadata not showing up after importing books into Calibre. Metadata shows up in the windows file explorer Calibre folder.
I have to go into Calibre edit metadata and download metadata to get it to show up.
Is there a setting i have wrong? It happens on EPUB, AZW3, Mobi

Even if there is little to no metadata available when adding an ebook, calibre will create a metadata.opf file. The presence of that file does not indicate that calibre is hiding metadata from you.

I imported a pdf file (release notes for GlobalProtect). Basically about 13 lines of "meaningful" metadata. The rest was empty custom columns, empty descriptions, etc. The only "metadata" that pdf file supplied was the document title.

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<package xmlns="http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf" unique-identifier="uuid_id" version="2.0">
    <metadata xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:opf="http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf">
        <dc:identifier opf:scheme="calibre" id="calibre_id">8871</dc:identifier>
        <dc:identifier opf:scheme="uuid" id="uuid_id">99aad904-a064-470d-8b15-5adea0646399</dc:identifier>
        <dc:title>GlobalProtect™ App Release Notes</dc:title>
        <dc:creator opf:file-as="Unknown" opf:role="aut">Unknown</dc:creator>
        <dc:contributor opf:file-as="calibre" opf:role="bkp">calibre (4.14.0) [https://calibre-ebook.com]</dc:contributor>
        <dc:date>2020-04-22T19:10:58+00:00</dc:date>
        <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
        <meta content="{&quot;Unknown&quot;: &quot;&quot;}" name="calibre:author_link_map"/>
        <meta content="2020-04-27T18:29:17.162000+00:00" name="calibre:timestamp"/>
        <meta content="GlobalProtect™ App Release Notes" name="calibre:title_sort"/>
        <meta name="calibre:user_metadata:#author_sort" content="{&quot;is_multiple2&quot;: {}, &quot;colnum&quot;: 1, &quot;is_multiple&quot;: null, &quot;rec_index&quot;: 22, &quot;is_custom&quot;: true,

[multiple lines of place holders for empty information removed]
    </metadata>
    <guide>
        <reference href="cover.jpg" title="Cover" type="cover"/>
    </guide>
</package>

Quite a few epubs that I own came with the absolute minimum of metadata which are dc:identifier, dc:title, and dc:language. Anything else is not required by the epub specification.

[toolman]

I understand that some books might not have metadata. But this has been happening on all the books that i have been importing for about 2 months. I tried uninstalling Calibre and reinstalling. That did nothing because i don't think you can totally uninstall by add/remove programs.

The last book i imported is attached

[jhowell]

Originally Posted by toolman

The last book i imported is attached

That is a Kindle book so should have title and author metadata.

What metadata do you see in calibre for that book?

Did you create a new entry in your calibre library or add that file to an existing entry?

[toolman]

Same library that i always have used. No metadata shows up till i download from the edit metadata button in Calibre.

[toolman]

It was a new entry. First book with that Author

[jhowell]

What was filled in by calibre in the title and author fields when you imported that book?

[toolman]

I just imported another book set and here is a picture of what it looks like.

[jhowell]

Originally Posted by toolman

I just imported another book set and here is a picture of what it looks like.

That looks fine to me.

[toolman]

I used to get this before, i have to use the download metadata to get it now.

[BetterRed]

@toolman - we X-posted

If you want to extract the subtitle and series from the book title into separate columns you could use the metadata edit search and replace. But that's only available in Bulk Metadata edit, for a single book its just as easy to do it via cut and paste in the metadata editor, or the booklist via F2 editing.

BR

[toolman]

Maybe somethings have changed, i didn't have to do 2 steps before. I just had to import books and everything was done like the last picture.
Thank you everybody for your help!

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by toolman

I used to get this before, i have to use the download metadata to get it now.

I don't understand, the two screen shots show two book lines with a Date of 27 Apr 20... for the same book title "The Complete . . ." and both show version 4.14.

Something must have changed between the two adds, either a setting or the file that was added.

@jhowell - the Comments in the first screen shot look a bit odd, I wonder where they came from.

BR