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Ovi Share - Why I have no trust in Nokia's Photo a...

mbewley
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Ovi Share - Why I have no trust in Nokia's Photo and Video services

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16-Nov-2009 11:51 AM

Nokia seems to be pretty apathetic about metadata on photos - something which is seriously important for keeping an online photo album.

 

I HAD a whole library in lifeblog, with "descriptions" field used for tagging.

This translated ok to Nokia Photos.

 

The problems all started with Ovi Suite and Ovi Share...

  • In the Nokia Photos library, none of the info (geotags, descriptions) is stored as exif data on the jpgs - it's all in xml, so it locks you in totally.
  • If I upload to Ovi Share from Nokia Photos, they throw away the "description" field (but keep geotags, which is something at least).
  • If I open my Nokia Photos (formerly lifeblog) collection in Ovi Suite 2, it throws away the "description" field, and the geotag... precisely the two pieces of information where I have ALL of my data.
  •  If I download from Ovi Share, I can only download one at a time. It fortunately stores the geotag metadata in the exif on the jpg (so it's portable, yay!), BUT throws away any tags/descriptions/comments you've added to the photo on Ovi Share.
  • Recently (a week ago?), a "download all" button appeared in Ovi Share, which was AWESOME (even though it just displayed links that you needed a grabber to download), as you could select "keep metadata", which was actually as exif info on the jpg. So, like a good boy, I started to use the Share to Ovi app on my N95 8GB, tagging photos and info on my weekend trip, and uploading it to Nokia Share. You could even save an upload with tags as a draft ready to go, which is great if you're out of 3G or wifi coverage (like.... most holidays? Overseas? Hiking?). Anyway, so life was rosy, but on my return from my holiday, I find Nokia has screwed me by removing the ability to:
    a) Download more than one photo at a time
    b) Retain tags I carefully added in Ovi Share

Nokia - Do you have anyone... anyone at all, who's considered "maybe there are people out there who used nokia products in the past (all the way back to 2 years ago with lifeblog), and want to continue using our products?" Or have you just assumed that once someone tries a Nokia photo album style app, they'll never touch Nokia again?

I know you guys are working hard on things like the N97 and N900 now, but this is ridiculous.
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