diff --git a/youtube_dl/postprocessor/metadatafromuser.py b/youtube_dl/postprocessor/metadatafromuser.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python2
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+"""
+Created on Fri Feb  9 16:23:16 2018
+
+@author: Niras C. Vayalil
+"""
+
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+from .common import PostProcessor
+import re
+
+
+class MetadataFromUserPP(PostProcessor):
+    def __init__(self, downloader, metadata):
+        super(MetadataFromUserPP, self).__init__(downloader)
+        self._metadata = metadata
+        
+
+    def run(self, info):
+        lastpos = 0
+        attribute = None
+        # Search for key words
+        for match in re.finditer(r'(\w+) *=', self._metadata):
+            if attribute is not None:
+                # The data exists between previous math end and new match start
+                value = self._metadata[lastpos:match.start()].strip()
+                self._downloader.to_screen(
+                    '[fromuser] %s: %s'
+                    %(attribute, value if value else 'NA'))
+                info[attribute] = value
+            attribute = match.group(1)    
+            lastpos = match.end()
+
+        if attribute is None:
+            # No attributes is given user, default assume the text as album name
+            attribute = 'album' 
+        # Add the last key
+        value = self._metadata[lastpos:].strip()
+        self._downloader.to_screen(
+            '[fromuser] %s: %s'
+            %(attribute, value if value else 'NA'))
+        info[attribute] = value
+
+        # If nothing specified for artist, extract from comments/description
+        if (('artist' not in info) and ('description' in info)):
+            artist = re.findall('music(?![ia]).*$', info['description'], re.MULTILINE | re.IGNORECASE)
+            artist = artist + re.findall('sing.*$', info['description'], re.MULTILINE | re.IGNORECASE)
+            artist = ', '.join(artist).title().strip()
+            
+            self._downloader.to_screen(
+                    '[artist] : %s : parsed from description' %(artist if artist else 'NA'))
+            info['artist'] = artist
+        
+        return [], info