MKV Tagging/Video Manager...GUI

These are top options I have found over years of research. Order ranked higher if support MP4 and MKV and if can pull metadata from sources like tmdb, etc. 1) (MP4, MKV and others) - Not free, 10 USD 2) (MP4, MKV - added in v2.85, but Matroska covers not yet supported) 3) (MP4, MKV) - Not free, 25 EURO 4) (MKV only) 5) (MKV only) 6) (MKV only. Also does not support searching any online sources to auto fill. You must manually enter all the data) 7) (MKV, MP4) Searches online sources for data. I have not looked at this program personally so I cannot vouch for its reliability but perhaps someone else can comment on that. With MKVTagger there are plugins in Media Portal 2 that support the tags it writes to the video files and I assume this works with its search function (i.e. find all movies with Genre of Drama) also looks to now support tags in video file metadata. And this is a as well. MetaX looks to be the best to support all formats, but its not free, but for a measly $10 its a deal for what it can do. But options 2-4 are also good and worth exploring to see what works best. Mp3tag developer seems quite active and working on new MKV features, hopefully covers are supported soon as I believe its on the TODO list. - Is an interesting tagging app but looks to only support MP4 and only the keyword metadata but does allow searches on your machine for files with these keywords.

Thanks jfcarbel! It was helpful!

is also another interesting choice, but I don't think its been updated recently. And as I mention below, I would not be surprised to see a feature like this added to the OS possibly in the next release. It should be noted that Apple's recent OS release has added tagging into the OS file system that works with its built in search tools. Why it is taking Microsoft so long to have done that as well is beyond me. Perhaps as always Microsoft will follow others lead and add it. I have not heard what might be coming in Windows 9 since 8.1 was just so recently released and with Ballmer leaving I not sure they know what they are doing next. I think is a really nice tagging program for video and author seems dedicated to keep updating it. What is really needed is an OS level tool in Windows that indexes file metadata and keeps track when files are moved and provides search tools on that metadata.

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This is an interesting approach in which your tags are just part of filename. Thus any file type can be tagged and moving files is not an issue and the tags are thus portable. Searching is nothing more then using windows search.

Tagspaces is very interesting. Thank you for suggesting it. I like all of the cross platform support. I also like that it is open source. The add-ons for Firefox and Chrome don't work well in Linux but I used their Ubuntu based Linux install in Mint without a problem. Only note I would make to anyone that tries the program is make sure to set your Tag Delimiter and Prefix for the tag container before adding any tags (under Experimental Options). If you set it after sometimes it won't update files names if you had a perivious setting for those. I like it a lot...I'm just thinking about how many tags I might actually use for some files because of character limits. Although NTFS or FAT32 file systems can support filenames up to 255 characters (Linux can do more and I believe more recent Windows can as well, i.e. Windows Vista and up) but some programs or clients can have probelms with character length. I know 255 might seem like a lot but that includes the directory/path. I have run into a problem with some of my MP3's filename legnth (mostly audio books) being an issue when trying to copy them to a Windows drive. What happens is I have to put it on C and then later I can move it to the correct directory. I think for now I'm going to give this a longer test to see if it will fit my needs. Thank you jfcarbel for the suggestion.

Added a #4 tool to my original post above. Anyone have any experience using Wondershare? I will try to look at it this weekend. (MKV, MP4) Searches online sources for data. I have not looked at this program personally so I cannot vouch for its reliability but perhaps someone else can comment on that. I also added an that indicates that VLC's media tab also supports add/edit metadata.

Thanks I will make the edits. Are you still using tagSpaces? Seems to fit your need.

My reason to stick with MKV is DTS-MA and PGS subs. No dice in MP4s.