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Don’t steal movies and / or music.  There.  Now that that’s done I can get to the point of the post.

Lately, on the odd occasion that I actually buy a movie, I look for Blu Ray versions with the digital content option to make it very easy to get the movie that I am paying for onto my AppleTV and iPad.  Unfortunately there are movies I have bought and movies that are being reissued that I want that don’t have this option.

Lots of people, including myself have written about how to get your movies off your legally purchased media into digital format that you can reuse for your personal use.  That’s not the point of this post.

When I look at my digital content, I like the metadata to be complete and the artwork to be clean.  In the past I would hunt this stuff down manually, then for audio, let iTunes do the Gracenote update.  But movies were always a pain.  I tried MetaTag X and while it could work, I more than often enough had corruption of the file occur and I found the write changes process to be really slow.  So I gave up.

This past week I discovered an amazing little tool called Subler.  It uses data from Tagchimp and makes updating metadata and artwork incredibly easy.  Open the movie file in Subler.  Type the title into the search box.  Select which of the returned options you prefer.  Save the file.  Done.

Subler has a very basic UI and does this one thing only.  But it does it extremely well.  Subler is written by Damiano Galassi.  At the time of this post, it is at version 0.97 and available for download at http://code.google.com/p/subler/ It is a Mac app requiring OS X 10.5 or later and works fine under Snow Leopard.

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