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Old 10th July 2012   #1
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Injecting metadata from .pdf to wavs

I'm currently in the process of reorganizing and tidying up metadata on my fx library and consolidating it on 1 drive - a boring but necessary evil. Anyway, I have 4 old libraries that were purchased on CD and then copied as wavs to my hard drive (I do not have SM Ripper so they only have filename data, no description fields etc).

Unfortunately, some of the discs were lost in a house move 2 yrs ago so for the discs that are missing, is it possible to use a .pdf of data and somehow automatically add the metadata without having to manually cut and paste each field in?? I have Soundminer Pro but I've never had to do anything tricky with metadata so haven't used a lot of the advanced database features.

I think I'm only missing about 12 CD's so its not a massive amount to chip away at manually but I feel there's a better way to spend my spare time!
Any thoughts or suggestions are most welcome
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Lookup "import text into database" and "remerge metadata" in the SMpro manual.
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The SM manual explains this process quite well.

Select your file which you wish to add metadata to and use dump query to export your filepaths and ID to a txt file.

Use a software to convert pdf to excel (I use Wondershare, haven't found a free one).

Merge both your dump query file paths and the metadata excel file, do a bit of tidying up, export as a csv and then select import text into database.

It works, but it really is best to read the manual and understand exactly what soundminer needs!

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Thanks guys,

Got it going eventually - quite finicky and its not loving openoffice (seems to add quotations around every entry when saving out your completed file which throws Soundminer off) but excel seems to work a better
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