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Allow to generate sidecar files from exiftool for non-supported filetypes #3087

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Bionus opened this issue Jan 22, 2024 · 1 comment
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Bionus commented Jan 22, 2024

There are a few reasons one might want to use sidecar files instead of embedded metadata:

  • File types not supporting embedded metadata via exiftool (ex: webm)
  • Not modifying files in-place, to keep the MD5 of the file intact

And while Grabber does support generating sidecar files and as such one could use the built-in system, it can make more sense to factorize this and rely of exiftool for this.

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https://docs.digikam.org/en/setup_application/metadata_settings.html#sidecars-settings

Filename for the sidecars set to filename.ext.xmp. For example, image1.dng will have a sidecar file named image1.dng.xmp. With the option Sidecar file names are compatible with commercial programs digiKam will create the XMP sidecar files with a compatible file name (image1.xmp) used by many commercial programs.

@Bionus Bionus added this to the 7.13.0 milestone Jun 20, 2024
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