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timmmay

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#255822 2-Sep-2019 08:01
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In the past I used a program called JAlbum to create static web galleries, which is fine for my use. The jalbum website is down, not sure if it's an isolated failure or if it's gone.

 

Later versions of JAlbum put comments into jpeg image metadata - doesn't seem to do it for mp4 files. When JAlbum was new image description went into a file called comments.properties. I'd like to copy these comments from the text file to the jpeg "ImageDescription" field. Does anyone have any suggestions how to do this? File format is something like.

 

filename1.jpg=Here's a family photo!

 

filename2.jpeg=Little Billy catches a fish

 

 

 

I could write a bit of Java to do it, but that'd take hours as I'd need to find a jpeg library. Any other suggestions how to do this more quickly / easily?


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  #2311847 6-Sep-2019 16:08
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timmmay:

 

Sign. I then realise that I have another album with a different metadata type. In this one the format is below. Do you think this will work with the batch file you gave me or does it need tweaking?

 

filename.jpg.description=Description

 

 

Let's try that again. Had to enter a capcha to post and my reply didn't show up (@freitasm).

 

The script won't quite work as is as it treats everything before the = as the file name. It is necessary to remove .description from the file name. Something like the following (untested, sorry), should do the job...

 

 

setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for /f %%a in ('dir /b /s /ad') do (
 pushd "%%a"
 if exist comments.properties (
  for /f "tokens=1,* delims==" %%b in (comments.properties) do (
   set fname=%%b
   ExifTool.exe "!fname:.description=!" -ImageDescription="%%c"
  )
 )
 popd
)

 


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