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Now that Shotwell supports video files, we could consider supporting audio as well. Shotwell probably wouldn't be a good choice for managing a music collection, but might be useful for home-recorded audio clips as Tobias Rapp pointed out on the mailing list:

I own a digital audio recording device called “Tascam DR-07” r1. Thisis some handheld device which is a bit larger than a mobile phone andallows you to capture audio data in digital format. The data is storedon those common flash memory cards. In my case I am using it to capturee.g. the first spoken words of my children, funny minutes while playingTaboo with friends, some service or prayer at the church. In the lasttwo or three years these kind of devices have become more and morepopular (see r2).

For organizing the recorded audio files I have not yet found anappropriate application. Common music managers allow you to play therecorded files, of course, but apply the usual Artist/Album/Trackmodel. In this case the more relevant information would be:

• date and time of the recording

• event name (birthday, Christmas, holidays, …)

• location of the event

• persons audible in the recording

This is similar with the typical metadata when managing photos. Indeedit would be great to manage both, captured images and captured audiofiles of a single event within the same software. I really preferShotwell for managing my photo images and would like to use it for myrecorded audio, too.

The import workflow (transfer files from attached device or memory cardto HDD), the management of files (using date, location and tags) and theexport are very similar. Actually as similar support for video files iscurrently in progress I think that extending support towards audio filesin a future version would not be a too far away. It would be somecourageous feature, if that is the right word, something that has notbeen tried before.