Metadata to be recognised by Finder too

[Christophe Ayer]

Hi, macOS Mojave improved the Finder with a new gallery view allowing us to have metadatas of photos and videos being displayed directly in the Finder.

I always used Subler to get metadatas for my videos. And as far as I can see, neither Mojave and Catalina can read the infos I insert in the movie files with Subler.

According to the options in Finder, I should be able to see/search actors, directors, comments, name, screenwriters (and tons of others tags that you can turn off/on in the Finder view menu).

I never succeded.

I tried to make my files m4v and “names and copyright” did appear time to time but not actors and the other interesting infos etc….

I know Subler is made for working with iTunes and TV app … But I was wondering why Finder can’t read these metadatas when we are supposed to see (and search) them directly in Finder now since Mojave, without having iTunes on.

[Damiano Galassi]

That’s up to Apple. Probably it would help to send them a feedback.

[Christophe Ayer]

Yep and they never answered to this question. “Why Subler metadata is only recognized in iTunes and not Finder when Mojave and Catalina Finder is supposed to do so”.

I did report this 10x already. But Apple is Apple and sometimes they answer your bug report 5 years later.

I was wondering if they use another sort of tags. Kinda like in music tags. There’s different ID3’s … So maybe there are different tags too for videos. And Finder and iTunes don’t use the same.