editMetadata.app

Platform:
Mac OS X 10.4

High-level Description:
A Cocoa application that allows user to view and modify meta-data for one or more files. Supports batch editing for groups of homogenous files, as well as for common metadata fields of heterogenous files.

Features:

  • Finder support via contextual-menu
  • Protects user from modifying certain field values (behavior can be overridden by “unlocking” with admin password)
  • On mouse-over, user-friendly descriptors (similar to HTML “alt” tag)
  • Support for all built-in Spotlight plugins, yet robust enough to handle third-party plugins
  • Drag & Drop support via Dock icon
  • NOTE: This application is still in the planning stages, and I would appreciate any input for features or any other suggestions. I plan to actually devote some time to writing the code for this in the next few weeks.