diff --git a/docker_sample_config.yml b/docker_sample_config.yml
index 4b5ad021..e9e23b75 100644
--- a/docker_sample_config.yml
+++ b/docker_sample_config.yml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ content-type:
     input-directory: "/data/images/"
     embeddings-file: "/data/generated/.image_embeddings.pt"
     batch-size: 50
-    use-xmp-metadata: "no"
+    use-xmp-metadata: true
 
   music:
     input-files: null
diff --git a/sample_config.yml b/sample_config.yml
index 8d5de409..8805c984 100644
--- a/sample_config.yml
+++ b/sample_config.yml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ content-type:
     input-directory: "tests/data"
     embeddings-file: "tests/data/.image_embeddings.pt"
     batch-size: 50
-    use-xmp-metadata: "no"
+    use-xmp-metadata: false
 
   music:
     input-files: ["tests/data/music.org"]
diff --git a/src/utils/rawconfig.py b/src/utils/rawconfig.py
index e87c22fd..4a88eb4e 100644
--- a/src/utils/rawconfig.py
+++ b/src/utils/rawconfig.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ class TextContentConfig(ConfigBase):
     embeddings_file: Optional[Path]
 
 class ImageContentConfig(ConfigBase):
-    use_xmp_metadata: Optional[str]
+    use_xmp_metadata: Optional[bool]
     batch_size: Optional[int]
     input_directory: Optional[Path]
     input_filter: Optional[str]