[Question] How to force Youtube title into video metadata instead of the Content ID track title

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Hello! First of all, I apologize for not being able to get this from reading the docs, but I’m having some trouble with metadata and I can’t quite figure it out.

I only just noticed that, with --add-metadata, yt-dlp will actually prioritize the Content ID data over the actual video metadata set by the uploader (at least on Youtube), if it is set. This means you only get the actual video title as the metadata title some of the time, depending on whether or not a Content ID tag was automatically set by Youtube. It also sets the “artist” tag (maybe others too in some cases? I’m not sure).

For my archiving script I want to just have the video title and channel name as “title” and “artist” metadata tags. So I’ve tried using --parse-metadata to accomplish this but it doesn’t seem to be working.

Here’s my command so far:

yt-dlp \
  --format "(bestvideo)+(bestaudio[acodec^=opus]/bestaudio)/best" \
  --verbose \
  --ignore-errors \
  --no-continue \
  --add-metadata \
  --write-description \
  --write-info-json \
  --write-annotations \
  --write-thumbnail \
  --embed-thumbnail \
  --all-subs \
  --embed-subs \
  --get-comments \
  --match-filter "!is_live & !live" \
  --output "TEST/TEST.%(ext)s" \
  --merge-output-format mp4 \
  --parse-metadata "title:%(title)s" \
  --parse-metadata "artist:%(channel)s" \
  "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M38GIXosXF0"

Here’s the yt-dlp output log and the generated info.json.

After downloading, the file’s metadata tags are as follows:

$ ffmpeg -i ./TEST/TEST.mp4 -y -f ffmetadata meta.txt 2> /dev/null; grep -i "title=\|artist=" meta.txt

title=Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 2, No. 2: III. Scherzo - Allegretto (Remastered)
artist=Glenn Gould

I’m expecting to instead see the following:

title=TITLE TEST
artist=helloitismetomato

Here’s the full meta.txt file output.

Would anyone know how I should go about this?