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General => Metadata => Topic started by: Guzman on November 27, 2019, 02:01:36 PM

Title: Remove metadata from AVI/MP3 files
Post by: Guzman on November 27, 2019, 02:01:36 PM
How could I delete metadata (Artist, Comments, Copyright, Engineer, Keywords, etc.) from MP3 and AVI files?
Title: Re: Remove metadata from AVI/MP3 files
Post by: Phil Harvey on November 27, 2019, 02:19:06 PM
I suppose you already know that ExifTool can't do this.  I don't know much about the capabilities of other metadata editors, so I can't help here.

- Phil
Title: Re: Remove metadata from AVI/MP3 files
Post by: StarGeek on November 27, 2019, 03:53:53 PM
For AVIs, your best bet is FFMpeg. See this SuperUser answer (https://superuser.com/questions/441361/strip-metadata-from-all-formats-with-ffmpeg) for details.

You can also use for MP3s (see this [StackOverflow answer (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20193065/how-to-remove-id3-audio-tag-image-or-metadata-from-mp3-with-ffmpeg)), but there are probably better tools that specifically deal with MP3s.   I often seen mp3tag (https://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html) mentioned when it comes to dealing with MP3 metadata.  Additionally, Windows can be used to clear metadata from some files, right-click -> Properties -> Details tab -> Remove Properties and Personal Information