Details about metadata properties files

[rtrski]

Maybe this is a really ignorant question, but I'm new to this still, so feel free to peform a beat-down if I didn't search well enough before asking (thought I did!). Did find a very similar question HERE so I at least know I'm not alone in doing this (other question was about create-your-own properties, but would benefit from similar automation if filename structure already included some of the required fields).

This post from Opus describes the metadata fields. The BMT will try to populate a .PROPERTIES folder based on folder names (in the case of DVDs) and can be called up on a per-folder basis thru the Sage (or SageMC) interface. Obviously if the starting folder name isn't close enough though, things get wacky in a hurry....and then once a metadata search ends up CHANGING the name as shown in Sage, the IMDB search similarly goes wacky.

I come from a digital photography background (well, attempted! ) where all the good organization programs (Lightroom, PhotoMechanic, etc.) allow metadata tagging on your pictures, and you can do it in a quick, automated fashion (select a bunch of pics in a directory-tile like view, enter the tags, and apply to all at once, even with tools to allow sequential numbering and the like). I understand multiselecting things thru the Sage interface isn't the right way to go about this, but if one already has proper directory structure, e.g.

Battlestar Galactica
--Battlestar Galactica Season One
-- --Battlestar Galactica S01E01
-- -- --Video_TS folder (<---or co-named .avi, or .mkv, or whatever)
-- --Battlestar Galactica S01E02
.....

...it shouldn't be hard for someone good with coding (probably would be pretty slow for me, but I think even I could try to script something up that would run using VBscript or something) to parse the folder names, populate each directory name that's appropriate with a corresponding .PROPERTIES file that at least had the show title, season #, and episode # in it from the folder name supplied...after which the metadata tools should be able to "complete" filling the listing in pretty easily? Maybe that VBscript could even 'call' the BMT in a loop to fill out the population outside of Sage? Then you re-import the directory and have it all correct in one swoop? (Of course this is really only necessary when importing large numbers of incoming files...)

Or am I missing something entirely here, and BMT already does work in true 'batches' but I'm just the idiot who's been trying to run it a single file at a time?

I saw one external utility that imports one PROPERTIES file into another, but don' want to then hand-edit each one either.

Is this idea somewhat viable? Does something like it already exist?

UMMMM....re-reading Stuckless's description, that's exactly what BMT is supposed to do from a command-line. So, looks like I put my foot in it again. Sorry for the wasted post.