The Mac went to Canadian this weekend and play iTunes in the car, scanned photos, and ripped CDs. It worked really well.
While scanning the photos I saved notes written on the back in the spotlight comments. It’s interesting what happens to that on Windows. They are saved in a hidden DSStore file. Mac writes this file, even to Windows network shares. The DSStore file is unreadable to all programs except OS X. I had hoped to copy this to the Windows simple metatags. Unfortunately, this is impossible. It’s really awful that the Mac and Windows can’t read each other’s most basic metafile info.
I used the Win2K VM to copy/paste this info from Mac to Windows on the share. Oddly, Win2K can read this, but XP can’t. So, it’s a toss up how DSOFile will respond. This is the library that my Flickr app uses to read the Windows metadata.
The Mac has worked very well.