On Apr 26, 2008, at 1:58 PM, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> Chris Gehlker wrote:
>> On Apr 25, 2008, at 10:36 PM, Kurt Granroth wrote:
>>> But it [the iLife suite] does so in a completely and totally
>>> locked down fashion. All files are sucked in, converted to the
>>> iLife formats, and good luck ever trying to get them out again.
>> I don't understand what you mean here. I haven't used iLife that
>> much but i was able to export pictures from iPhoto in TIFF or JPEG
>> and Music from Garage Band as MIDI.
>
> As one-offs, yes. iPhoto, in fact, is even better than digikam for
> exporting select photos from an album into a directory without
> having to create a web album or some other contrivance. iMovie
> exports to quite a few formats as well.
>
> What I'm referring to is the original files. In iPhoto, for
> instance, good luck trying to share the original pictures in an
> album with another photo manager. It keeps the files in an odd
> directory ordering and orders it through a proprietary database
> file. iTunes is the same with their iTunes Library files. If you
> randomly add a file into directory tree of either app, they will
> *not* recognize that it's new and add it to their library. This is
> only done via their official import methods. I've found that it's
> easier to completely 'nuke' my iPhoto albums whenever I add new
> photos or videos (since I do it over a shared drive via another
> application) than to import each one at a time.
>
> Mind you, they have gotten a lot better in recent years. You can
> actually have multiple libraries now and even tell each not to move
> the original files (thus preserving whatever rational order you may
> have for the originals). Sharing the originals is now far easier
> than it used to be... still a pain, but easier.
>
> Still not good enough, IMO.
Thanks for replying, Kurt. I understand your point now and agree.
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