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. --- Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. -Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, author, Nobel laureate (1872-1970) --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
