MovieTagger 1.3

Choosing a movie is now essentially instant. If you're on 1.2, MovieTagger will offer you this update automatically.

Faster movie selection

Picking a movie from the search results used to pause — sometimes for a noticeable beat — before the metadata screen appeared. Three separate things were responsible, and all three are fixed:

• Movie details now load ahead of time. As soon as you click a result, its details start downloading in the background, so by the time you press Choose they're usually already there.
• The metadata screen appears immediately. It used to build the entire form before it could draw anything — measured at over half a second on a large cast. It now appears at once and fills in.
• No more stalling on your movie's disk. The rename preview checked your movie folder for filename conflicts on the main thread. On a NAS or an external drive that had just spun down, that alone could freeze the app for seconds. Those checks now happen in the background and can never block the interface.

Also improved

• The poster image is decoded once instead of on every keystroke, so typing in the metadata fields stays smooth.
• Cancelling a movie that's still loading now actually stops the request.
• The poster chooser becomes available sooner.
• The write confirmation always names the exact file the write will produce, even while you're editing.

Install

Download MovieTagger-1.3.zip below, unzip, and drag MovieTagger.app to your Applications folder. Requires macOS 13.0 (Ventura) or later. Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple — no security warnings.