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Mr. Noodle (and others).

I am pretty familiar with Hazel and shell scripts, but getting a bit stuck on this latest endeavor.

I use iFlicks to tag my movies. Wonderful, rich, full tags.
Those tags include a rating.
These files live on a server, so Spotlight doesn't (normally?) index them.
I can, however, have Hazel act on them, and do.

But....
I cannot act on "Rating" in hazel -- the data isn't being seen by openmeta nor with the preview Eye in Hazel (furthermore, simply putting a comparison value in the field for evaluating Rating throws an error).

I can, however, I can see the rating using the somewhat unwieldy mediainfo command line and grepping iTunesEXTC. Not sure I can successfully parse the data out to act on it, however.

Any advice here? I've looked through the board and it looks like everything hinges on spotlight's attributes. Would appreciate any advice on how to make this happen. Thanks,

TC

You would need a Spotlight importer which handles those files and is able to pull the ratings out of the file and export them to Spotlight as the ratings. What kind of files are these? If they are files that are handled by iTunes, then are the ratings stored in the place where iTunes would put them? If not, you'd need something to convert those over.