It looks like a good number of people feel that enhanced photo mgt support should be a priority...
Did you ever try v11.1?
While there's always room for improvement, and you can rely on us, the users, to be constantly reminding JRiver about it, the fact remains that image handling in v12.0 is in a completely different league than that of v11.1 in so many ways.
Credit where credit is due:
v11.1 has no auto import
v11.1 has no iptc bindings
v11.1 has limited exif bindings
v11.1 has no xmp support
v11.1 has no pix01.com support
v11.1 has 1 single, very rudimentary html photo album template
v11.1 does not handle image rotation as well as v12.0 does
v11.1 does not have the large preview image tooltip
v11.1 has way inferior thumbnails than v12.0 does
v11.1 has no quick way to switch between thumbnail and detail views
v11.1 has no quick way to switch sorting between things like newest first / oldest first
....
That's off the top of my head, there's probably more.
All through v11.1 we bemoaned the poor support for image libraries, and if you ask me, JRiver have responded with bells on with v12.0. Their commitment is very clear. If they can maintain the momentum, then in another couple of revisions MC could potentially be one extremely accomplished piece of image management software. (some would argue that it already is
)
-marko.