&gt; If I tag a photo or picture, I want the metadata to go with me.<p>Maybe, maybe not. Depends on what the tag means.<p>&gt; I can create a dynamic playlist of photos on all my devices based on the metadata on multiple different platforms (even in my car).<p>Here we just have to disagree. When it comes to music, I don&#x27;t want to alter metadata as part of regular operation.<p>&gt; What is idiotic is to store metadata only in silos (iTunes, Lightroom, iPhoto databases), it&#x27;s a vendor lock-in that will hurt the customer in the long term.<p>Sure, that is my pet peeve as well. But the problem is that these program suck, not that they don&#x27;t store metadata in the original files. They should use some documented, stable format, and it would be great if many programs used the same format!<p>But even when they use sqlite this is not the case, the schema is not fixed, not documented, the data inside the database opaque, and interoperability with anything else piss poor.<p>At least Lightroom manages all your photographic <i>files</i> as files, rather than importing blobs in a database, like Photos does. It would be great if the metadata would be open, it&#x27;s annoying, but that&#x27;s a much minor problem for me.