[Wowfunhappy]

> Vima's basic concept is that a video does not get any metadata from the system itself, but the user has to define everything that one could assign.

I've already done this with my video library! I have a wonderful little program called Meta[1] that lets me easily set the metadata on all my media files (audio + video) in the format built into the file specification.

I would encourage you to look at interfacing with the metadata built into the file, as keeping a separate database feels a bit like re-inventing the wheel. (Mind you, Plex etc do the same thing when they just grab everything from imdb)

[1]https://www.nightbirdsevolve.com/meta/

[kumpelblase2]

My personal use case does not evolve around the metadata that is usually present in the file itself. I'm aware that this exists and that Plex pulls information from there too (see the footnote[1] in the section about Plex). I don't think it makes sense to try and mirror all the metadata in the file metadata, but in the spirit of being configurable and for portability reasons it would make sense.

I planned for adding a provider that would read certain metadata from the file (just like any other tool) as well as possibly also pushing edits back if wanted. Not sure when I get around to that.

[1]: https://github.com/kumpelblase2/vima/#what-is-the-problem-wi...