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Old December 28th 17, 11:23 PM posted to comp.sys.mac.system,alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.mac.apps
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Default Can a Macintosh person tell us how to change the name of a file?

Wolf K
Tue, 19 Dec 2017 02:32:24 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote:

I didn't insist they're related. I'm just using "metadata" as it's
always been used: It's a chunk of data that indicates how some
other chunk of data should be handled.


Except that it hasn't always been used that way. Using jpegs as an
example, what difference to the average viewing program does it make if
it knows I shot the pic on a nikon vs a canon? Is it going to treat the
contents differently because different manufacturers were involved?
Granted, some can and will, but that's due to additional metadata
present in the jpeg itself and/or additional exif data.

Another example. id3tags on mp3s. They provide YOU information and some
of it can/will be used by your player/archiving program, but none of it
affects actual playback as in, the way it's going to sound on your
player. Yet, it's certainly meta data.

I think the concept has grown away from the techs who invented it.


I'm inclined to agree with you on this to a point.


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