Metadata Utilities: Metadata Editor

Overview

The Metadata Editor is the heart of the addon and probably the part you will spend most of your time with. It is designed make managing your metadata more convenient and add features the default library manager is missing. At the moment it's limited to categories, features, genres, series and tags, though, because in my experience those are the ones in need of management the most and often overlap quite a bit, since different metadata providers use very different names for their features, genres, tags etc. and also often mix stuff around. The Metadata Editor gives you the tools to clean up that mess and keep it clean.

The UI

The editor is composed of three main parts. On the left you find the filter you can use to find the metadata you are looking for. In the middle is the grid with the actual metadata and on the right you find the games, that have the selected metadata item assigned.

Filter

• Search box: here you can search for metadata names. Everything that contains the entered text are found. At the moment no options like AND or OR are supported.
• Prefix combobox: You'll only see this one, if you have defined prefixes in the addon settings. It contains all your prefixes and shows only items with the selected prefix then.
• type check boxes: If you only want to see specific types of metadata, you can unselect the ones you want to hide here.
• Hide unused items: Does what it says. Every item with a game count of 0 will be hidden.
• Group matching items: This one will add grouping to the metadata grid and also hide all items, that don't have any matches. Items will be grouped, if they have the same name with whitespaces, special characters and prefixes removed. That way you can easily find duplicates like Genre: Indie and Tag: Indie etc.

Metadata grid

Here you'll see all metadata items that meet the filter criteria you set on the left.

• You can sort by each column. When holding shift while clicking on a column name, you can sort by another column while the current sort order remains. That way you can sort by Game count and inside than by name for example.

• If you have defined prefixes in the addon settings, the name column will only contain the part after the prefix.

• You can select more than one item by holding CTRL while clicking on individual items. If you want to select a range, click on the first item you want to select and then hold Shift while clicking on the last one. That way every item in between will be selected, too.

• The grid has a context menu opened by right clicking that contains the same options as the buttons below the grid (except for "Remove unused").

• Add new item - this button opens a dialog to add a new metadata item. It is split by type, prefix (if you defined some in the settings) and name. The type and prefix of the currently selected item in the grid will be preset.