diff --git a/youtube_dl/options.py b/youtube_dl/options.py
index f1938a165..ce9391d89 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/options.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/options.py
@@ -818,6 +818,7 @@ def parseOpts(overrideArguments=None):
         metavar='METADATA', dest='metafromuser', default=False,
         help='Allows the user to specify key/value pairs for encoding metadata, sepatated by equal sign.'
              'Example: --metadata "album = Movie Title artist = Various artists year = "2010"'
+             'Note:- Should be used with --add-metadata to write the specified data to the video/audio file'
              'Also tries to capture artist information from the file description, if otherwise not available')
     postproc.add_option(
         '--metadata-from-title',