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Opposite of --add-metadata #20977
Opposite of --add-metadata #20977
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Just don't use |
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Ok, then I take back my YouTube example. But for example I just downloaded some music from Bandcamp and it has metadata, including thumbnails. |
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youtube-dl does not add any metadata until you explicitly tell it to do so. If the original media already contains metadata you can crop it with any tool of your choice by executing it in |
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It definitely does. Please reopen. |
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The command used for that was |
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Once again: this metadata is embedded in file itself by bandcamp. |
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I don't want thumbnails and other metadata in my audio files, so it would be nice to not download them at all, instead of having to first download them and then later deleting them with another program.
(Reasoning for not wanting metadata: They are harder to change than file names and some media players prefer metadata like "title" over the file name if there is one, making them show unexpected names or even sort based on them. And for example some music creators have a weird taste for images, so I don't want their thumbnails.)