Dear developers,

I like active playlists. They work well with music files which have faily static list of tags. Unfortunately, Mezzmo doesn't cope well with image files. Mezzemo supports really limited number of tags. Image files tend to have numerous different tags, EXIF, IPTC, XMP or JFIF tags.

Few posters have raised this matter earlier. Here's few for starters:

http://forum.conceiva.com/showthread...tures-metadata
http://forum.conceiva.com/showthread...mart-playlists
http://forum.conceiva.com/showthread.php/5794-JPEG-tags

I suggest that you make Mezzmo smarter with images. I think that Mezzmo should read ANY tag it finds from an image file and should make tag available to active playlists. The three most wanted categories of tags are:

- date and time
- location (address, GPS)
- people (Picasa and Windows Photo Gallery don't use the same tags, too bad!)

Anyhow, people aren't same. So, fixed list of supported tags will not work. Hence, the tag reading, storage and active playlist variable list should be all dynamic. It is acceptable that Mezzmo establishes image tag names as it comes across a new ones.

I agree that reading tags may become complicated. Luckily, there is a good library that may help you to get there. Take a look at ExifTool (http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/) by Phil Harvey.

I have thousands of photos waiting to be shared to family members. This proposed feature would make Mezzmo a perfect platform for image sharing.

I hope I have convinced you to take this decisibe step that differentiates you from the rest!


Kind regards,
Olli-Pekka Isola