Media Purveyor Lite is free but some freeware products are spyware.
Is Media Purveyor spyware?
Does the software collect or transmit any personal information?
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Absolutely not! Media Purveyor does not collect any personal information
whatsoever. The software is not spyware, adware, malware.
See Softpedia verification.
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The full version of Media Purveyor is shareware with a 30 day trial
period. Does that mean I have only one month of usage?
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The trial period is 30 days of usage which means that if you use
the software two days a week the trial will last 15 weeks! When
the trial period for Basic or Pro expires the pay features
will disable which is essentially the Lite version.
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Does Media Purveyor support Windows Vista?
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The software development is moving towards complete native Vista
compatibility and future versions will run on Vista without having
to use compatibility mode.
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I described a media item with Purveyor, then edited and saved the media
item with another software package. Later when I brought the media item up in
your program the metadata was gone. What happened?
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Media Purveyor finds a safe way of storing metadata inside of different formats.
However, other software packages do not know about these means of storing data and
so when they encode an image the metadata is lost. However, you can still edit movies,
images and sounds with other programs without losing all of your precious metadata.
Simply select media items in the main browser, right-click and select Export Metadata
To XML. This will, as the name indicates, send all of your metadata to separate
.XML files. After you are done making you modifications with another software package,
simply select those media items in the Browser, right-click and select Import Metadata
From XML.
You may also configure that external program to launch directly from Media Purveyor
using the Open With External Program option. When configuring the external program
there is a setting to automatically export metadata before launch.
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Media Purveyor will index and search files in a selected folder, but I have files
scattered across dozens of folders. Is there a way for me to search multiple folders
using the metadata system?
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At this time Media Purveyor will only allow users to search on files in
a single folder or Collection. The best thing to do for this use case is to send all of the
files to a Collection and search on that Collection. Collections can be built out of the
contents of many directories.
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Media Purveyor does not support embedded metadata for some media formats that
I frequently use. What are the odds of extended support?
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The software features a pluggable architecture that makes it exceptionally
easy to add metadata capabilities and image format support. Writing with specific
requests will help to arrange my priorities for adding support and features.
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What is the difference between "SDM Files" and "Normal Files"?
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SDM Files are files that Media Purveyor knows how to store descriptions
inside the files themselves. When an SDM file is copied to another
computer the descriptions go with it automatically. Normal Files on the
other hand do not support this embedding technology and instead the
descriptions for normal files are stored in separate XML files named
after the source file. For example, the description XML file for the
icon "MyIcon.ico" would be stored in a file named "MyIcon_ico.xml". The
descriptions are not stored inside "MyIcon.ico" but they are stored in a
portable format. If you send the file and its associated XML file to your peers
they will get the descriptions.
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Aren't there other programs that let you describe your files?
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Yes. These programs use a large database to hold the descriptions which
makes sharing media files and their descriptive content convoluted.
Media Purveyor uses a proprietary database technology to speed media queries
but all data is loaded from and saved directly to the media files themselves.
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