Option to overwrite/strip creation date metadata on downloads

[MotivationalSqueaker]

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Feature description

I use NewPipe fairly often when I'm on the go and want to download a YouTube video so that I can directly send the file to someone.

It seems that when downloading YouTube videos, the download retains special video creation date metadata, which causes my device to think that the video was actually created on the date that it was uploaded to YouTube - rather than the date I downloaded it. In a lot of cases this can be several years ago, for example.

Because of this, it's almost impossible for me to find downloaded videos using my device's video/file pickers as I have tens of thousands of media items and a newly downloaded video always appears at some random position in the gallery instead of being at the top.

This is likely not a bug of course, I guess it's just a result of the fact that YouTube returns the raw video file with its creation date metadata in tact, but it would be super handy if NewPipe could have an option in the settings somewhere which allows the user to specify that downloaded videos should have their creation date metadata stripped/overwritten with the download date automatically.

For now as a workaround I just have to go back into the NewPipe app and then hit share from the downloads section whenever I want to share one of these videos to another app, but it's not as convenient to do it this way.

Why do you want this feature?

It would save a lot of time spent endlessly scrolling through a gallery/photo picker on my device to try and find the video that has just been downloaded.

Additional information

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[MotivationalSqueaker]

Are you sure this is a duplicate? #4341 describes a feature request to have NewPipe add ID3 tags (e.g. Artist Name, Album etc.) to media.

This one here is a request to have the ability to automatically strip file-level attributes such as creation date. It doesn't relate to media-specific metadata standards such as ID3.

[ChiefMikeK]

There are a few options you could use to make your gallery app show NewPipe downloads sorted to your needs (some depending on your cellphone product and/or Android version).
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• Best to always be specific when asking for stuff ie.
• • Vendor: Samsung/Nokia?
• • Android api: Pie/Marshmallow?
• • Stock gallery / ??? apps, stock download manager??

Try the following

• In NewPipe settings change the default download folder(s) so a separate path from your other video & audio media.
• Examples
• • Download/newpipe-vids & Download/newpipe-tunes
• • or /ext-sdcard/other ...
    If you don't want to show in your stock app you can hide from Android_Media_Storage with a empty nomedia file in a directory.
• Use a file manager that allows sorting or selecting by reverse date
• • https://search.f-droid.org/?q=file&lang=en
• Use a download Manager.
• Download to an USB FlashDrive.

[AudricV]

Reopening. Note that it needs triage again.

This is a niche feature which would be complicated to implement, as we need to edit video data directly.