Why You Need More Than 1 iPhoto, iTunes Library
As much as we ask of our Macs these days is it any wonder that we need even more utilities to help us organize our organization tools?
Think about it. Apple gives us iPhoto to manage our digital photo collections. We get iTunes to manage our digital music. Both are very capable, useful, valuable tools.
Yet, both need a little something else. Multiple libraries.
For the savvy Mac user experienced with iLife, I know what you’re thinking. “Alex, both iPhoto and iTunes.... (excerpted).
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David said:
I think my situation is fairly common. My wife and I dump all the family photos into one library. We have all the pictures we’ve taken mixed in with photos from other people including scans of family archive photos from up to 50 years ago. We should probably go through and tag all the pictures so we can find them more easily, but right now it’s a jumbled mess.
If Apple is determined to use a database system for iPhoto they need to offer much more advanced sorting capabilities. The current smart album system is weak because you can’t use OR to expand results and AND to limit them. If they had proper smart albums there would be little need for multiple libraries.
With iTunes, however, I definitely need multiple libraries. I started ripping all my CDs to iPod friendly AAC and then decided I wanted a higher bit rate which forced me to rip them all again. I’m never wasting my time again so the second time through I’m ripping everything lossless. That’s fine for a home theater with a dedicated 250GB HD for music, but not so good for iPods so I need a second library with lower bit rate copies of the first library.