Does Lightroom play back the audio wav files recorded with cameras such as the Canon 1Ds or 1Ds MkII? I haven't been able to find the setting if it does.
If not, this is a huge failing in Lightroom.
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I just found the answer to my own question. I underestimated the stupidity of Adobe and the so-called experts who helped the design this software. Would any of those experts like to stand up, take a bow, and explain how the following glaring omission was included in Lightroom?
I'll NEVER use Lightroom to import images -- because it will fail to import the wav files all together. Because they have the same file name as the raw image.
Here is the answer, copied from DDQ:
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Question:
You have made a number of favorable comments about Lightroom and having used a few of the betas, and presently the trial, I have to agree that Lightroom has some nice features. However it has one fatal flaw, (IMO and that of many others); it won't import files bearing the same name but with different extensions. They are, in fact, different files and I am baffled beyond words that Adobe did not make provisions for the user to decide how to handle this issue.
As you pointed out, you and I, and most everyone else who has been shooting for more than a week, have created a folder and file structure that suits our needs. To require that we move the "duplicate" file names into another directory to allow importing is not an acceptable solution when you have tens of thousands of images in hundreds of folders.
I am a bit of a 'software junky'.... I will often support new software in spite of short comings on the presumption that it will mature. Perhaps Adobe will deal with this at some point, but the shooters I know will not even consider buying it until this problem is fixed. It is, after all, not a PS replacement, but rather another tool, offering a streamlined workflow for certain kinds of images or shooting sessions. There are lots of valid reasons, after all, why a shooter might shoot RAW + jpg and want both files to be imported into Lightroom.
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ANSWER:
You are correct that if there are two files with the same filename but different extensions, Lightroom will only allow you to import one of those images. When you are importing a folder full of images, it will favor the RAW capture. That means if you capture RAW+JPEG, only the RAW will get imported. If you are working with images you had been working on prior to using Lightroom, and you already have various versions of the file (for example, a PSD with multiple layers, a TIFF file, and a RAW capture), only one of those files can be present in Lightroom.
I do agree that this isn't the best solution, or that at the very least Lightroom should provide an option to the user to decide whether they want these "duplicates" (which aren't duplicates at all by virtue of the fact that they are different files with different file formats, even if they are from the same source). I find it odd, for example, that you can import a Photoshop PSD file (presumably your master image with all the layers intact), but can't later import the original RAW capture that was the source for that PSD file.
I would most certainly agree that it would be great if Adobe would add an option to allow multiple files with the same filename and different extensions. I would encourage anyone who feels the same to provide feedback to Adobe about this issue, as I can assure you from personal experience they have been very responsive to input from users. Lightroom was -- to my knowledge -- the first product Adobe exposed to a public beta, and it is also in my experience the product for which they were most responsive to feedback.
And, of course, if someone knows a way to work around this limitation (without changing the filename, obviously), or know of some setting somewhere I missed, please let me know and you'll win a prize. A very nice prize. Which I'll tell you about on April 9th.
