iScreensaver has been updated to version 6.8.5.1360
iScreensaver version 6.8.5 has a number of bugfixes and improvements, including fixes for several issues that could cause issues when running under macOS Ventura 13 (currently in beta, soon to be released) Authors distributing screensavers for macOS clients should update, re-build, and re-distribute their screensavers. Authors only supporting Windows clients can upgrade at their convenience.
Release Notes
iScreensaver version 6.8.5 has a number of bugfixes and improvements, including fixes for several issues that could cause issues when running under macOS Ventura 13 (currently in beta, soon to be released) Authors distributing screensavers for macOS clients should update, re-build, and re-distribute their screensavers. Authors only supporting Windows clients can upgrade at their convenience.
Release Notes
We are pleased to announce the release of iScreensaver version 6 which supports macOS 10.11 (El Capitan) through 13 (Ventura) and Windows 7 through 10. Read about Version 6
Variable mapping to metadata
Can you clue me to what metadata fields the special variables correspond? All of my photos have what exiftool reports as a "Description" tag, but until I massage the metadata a bit the description does not appear as a caption.
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iScreensaver will pull metadata directly from the file, and on macOS it will also try to pull the data from iTunes (Music) or the Photos app. In another thread you reported a crash, and the crash was actually in the subroutine that pulls metada from the file. So this leaves us with some ideas/questions:
Well, I determined that the %description% variable maps to EXIF:ImageDescription in the metadata, since my Olympus TG-5 puts the string "OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA" there, and that's what appears in the iScreensaver caption for photos taken with that camera. But what do %title% and %location% (and all the others, for that matter) correspond to? When I try %title% or %location% with my photos in iScreensaver, no caption appears, although most of my pictures are both geotagged and reverse geocoded.
Anyway, to answer your queries:
Thanks for these ideas Tom (and for your detailed emails as well). We have made improvements for the next version and will let you know when it's ready for testing.
Thank you for reporting these issues to us.
We are happy to announce the release of version 6.5.0.1330 which improves or fixes many of these issues.
See Release Notes for details.
Hint: if you are editing photos and using a tool (such as exiftool) to set the title or description tag, you can use the following IPTC tags:
-iptc:ObjectName will set the %Title% variable
-iptc:Caption-Abstract will set the %Description% variable
See example here: https://akrabat.com/setting-title-and-caption-with-exiftool/