1PW-METADATA(1) General Commands Manual PW-METADATA(1)
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6 pw-metadata - The PipeWire metadata
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9 pw-metadata [options] [id [key [value [type ] ] ] ]
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13 Monitor, set and delete metadata on PipeWire objects.
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15 Metadata are key/type/value triplets attached to objects identified by
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20 When no value is given, pw-metadata will query and log the metadata
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29 The name the remote instance to use. If left unspecified, a con‐
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32 -h | --help
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39 Keeps running and log the changes to the metadata.
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42 Delete all metadata for id or for the specified key of object id
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47 The PipeWire Developers <‐
48 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/issues>; PipeWire is
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52 pipewire(1), pw-mon(1), pw-cli(1),
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