Files such as the Portable Document Format (PDF), images, audio and video files the metadata you are interested in can be viewed by right clicking the file, click properties and then click on the relevant tab to see the kind of metadata you asked about.
For PDFs click the Document tab
For images click the Image tab
For audio click the Audio tab
For video click the Audio/Video tab
For some Office documents you will not be able to view the kind of metadata you asked about by right clicking, you can install the utility called extract from the repositories and and run it from the command line, the metadata, if any is contained in the file, will be displayed in your terminal.
Example for using the extract utility:
I have an OpenOffice.org spreadsheet called 555.ods,
From the directory where the file is located I run;
extract 555.ods
The result below is the metadata in the file printed to stdout.
keywords - Electronics
subject - Electronics Engineering
title - 555 Timer Calculations
creator - Shabaka Sellasie
date - 2011-03-03T00:48:04
creation date - 2006-03-03T00:48:02
software - OpenOffice.org/3.2$Linux OpenOffice.org_project/320m19$Build-9505
mimetype - application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet
Currently, libextractor supports the following formats: HTML, PDF, PS, OLE2
(DOC, XLS, PPT), OpenOffice (sxw), StarOffice (sdw), DVI, MAN, MP3 (ID3v1 and
ID3v2), OGG, WAV, EXIV2, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, DEB, RPM, TAR(.GZ), ZIP, ELF,
REAL, RIFF (AVI), MPEG, QT and ASF.
you can install the utility called extract
This is a simple Nautilus script that invokes extract and displays the result with zenity, then with a right-click I can get that info. If you want, the script I wrote is this (please note that I'm not sure that the line "IFS=$'\n'" is actually required, a bash expert could comment on that)
#!/bin/bash
for item ; do
echo "$item"
/usr/bin/extract "$item"
echo
done | zenity --text-info --title="extract" --width=300 --height=600
Unfortunately no, Rhythmbox doesn't support fetching of metadata not even through plugins. But there are better alternatives available in Ubuntu repositories. I would suggest EasyTAG
EasyTAG is an utility for viewing and editing tags for MP3, MP2, FLAC, Ogg
Vorbis, Speex, MP4/AAC, MusePack, Monkey's Audio and WavPack files. Its simple
and nice GTK2 interface makes tagging easier under GNU/Linux or Windows.
You can install it by running the following command in terminal.
sudo apt-get install easytag
or search for "easytag" in Software Center and install in from there.
Best Answer
There are more than one way to mount different filesystems in linux.
Over /etc/fstab (works mount in background during boot) can mount filesystems on harddrives also network devices like samba, nfs for example.
Another possibility is gvfs(abbreviation for GNOME Virtual file system) is GNOME's userspace virtual filesystem designed to work with the I/O abstraction of GIO (Gnome Input/Output). is a little overview for gio
gvfs comes with "modules/backends" for trash support, SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, SMB, and local data via Udev integration, OBEX, MTP and others.
gvfsd is the main daemon
gvfsd-trash # is for trash://
gvfs-mtp-volume-monitor for mtp devices
gvfsd-metadata
I got this bit from the manpage (
man gvfsd-metadata
):The
gvfs
metadata capabilities are used by the GNOME Files file manager, and others. You can disable it.systemctl --user mask gvfs-metadata.service
To revert it usesystemctl --user unmask gvfs-metadata.service
If you are unsure stop only for test purpose first
systemctl --user stop gvfs-metadata.service