Talk:Metadata

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Is there any software which can strip metadata from files...particularly files that have been downloaded with a file sharing network? - ABliss

Depends on the type of input file. The easiest metadata to get is something like file size, but much beyond that depends on what was originally embedded. MP3's are easy since they are supposed to have id3 tags (you do make id3 tags for your mp3's don't you?). Some video formats have various bits of metadata (asf/wmv have titles and urls, i think). So it would be rather tedious to create a general purpose metadata extractor. For MP3's in particular, there are a great many utilities to automatically edit id3 tags. crtn