I keep what I save from e621 in one massive folder now, and simply append all the tags on the submissions to the downloaded images (converting to .jpg where necessary - .pngs cannot store tags in metadata...). This saves me from mountains upon mountains of folders for sorting and the dilemma of where to put one file if it fits in multiple folders. One folder, with everything in it tagged, is easier to search on the fly.

However, downloading, converting, and tagging any file takes a while - so much so that I basically only download/convert/tag in bulk every six months or so, when I can be bothered to sit down and spend a few hours clearing my download backlog.

I'm hoping there's a tool out there that can save me a lot of trouble with this, but all my searches for 'e621 downloader and tagger' return results for programs that take a tag input and download everything they can find with that tag, which is approaching my issue from the wrong direction.

Ideally, I'm looking for an extension that adds a button to the toolbar or right-click image menu that downloads the image, converts it to .jpg if necessary, and grabs all the tags on the submission and sticks them in the file's metadata. Does such a thing exist?

convert it to .jpg

Yeah, you lost me there. You want to convert lossless images into lossy and alter hash just to have sometimes outdated data inserted into metadata.

Mario69 said:
Yeah, you lost me there. You want to convert lossless images into lossy and alter hash just to have sometimes outdated data inserted into metadata.

Exactly. I can't readily tell the difference between .png and minimally compressed .jpgs, and any minor imperfections that creep in are worth being able to search 3,000+ images by tags.

Red2 said:
Exactly. I can't readily tell the difference between .png and minimally compressed .jpgs, and any minor imperfections that creep in are worth being able to search 3,000+ images by tags.

i'd recommend getting one of those personal boorus which allow tagging images just like here. like this one

this way you can tag images without converting them to some shit format

.. what happens when you want to add .webms or .swfs to your collection?

I maintain that a solution like TMSU , or failing that, Lightroom, which are not dependent on modifying the file itself, is realistic, and solutions that depend on modifying the file are not realistic.