Managing non-image files in iPhoto e.g. wav file

Hi.
In the past I had a camera that wouldn't record video, but would record audio and saved them as .wav's. Previously I have managed and organized my photos independently using Explorer (during the dark days of Windows) and now through Finder, and this way I was able to keep these audio files in the same place as the pictures they were associated with. Having now tried to import these folders of images and .wav files I see that iPhoto will not accept files in .wav format, and the thought of having to keep them somewhere completely seperate from the images they're a part of really irks me.
Does anyone know of a way around this, or have a suggestion for somehow being able to manage the situation? I see video files are no problem for iPhoto to manage, which can even call Quicktime to play the videos if desired... surely there must be a way to deal with .wav's?
And since we're on the topic - what about other file formats? Most of my pictures (and audio) are from my travels, so ideally I'd like to be able to manage folders that can hold all of my photos, videos, soundfiles and text files (journals) in one place... Don't suppose this is a realistic dream yet is it?
Thanks everyone

No.
Placing any file inside your library folder will appear to not do anything. You won't see a placeholder or anything there. For that to happen, files must be imported. If the file type is not supported, iPhoto will refuse to import. In addition, those extra files inside your library could confuse the database. You might start getting a message upon launch that iPhoto needs to rebuild the thumbnails. But it could get worse. You could cause your database to become corrupted. In that case you would lose all of your metadata: titles, keywords, comments, ratings; lose the relationship between your originals and their edited versions; plus lose your albums, books, calendars, etc.
So no, it's not safe. Manage them yourself outside of the iPhoto Library folder. You could keep them in your Pictures or Music folder in a subfolder labeled Voice Recordings, or look into the software that TD recommended.
Regards.

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"Howard Perlman" <[email protected]> wrote
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> Kind of a weird idea, but I'd like to see if it would be
possible to
> "assemble"
> a WAV file (using CF) from smaller WAV files.
>
> My idea: We report of the heights of rivers across the
U.S. (as in, at
> this
> moment, the Potomac River is 5.45 feet). I am able to
have people send in
> an
> email asking for a certain river, and CF produces an
email back to them
> with
> the river height (process runs every 5 minutes).
>
> But I thought of sending them back a voice (WAV) file to
their cell
> phones, so
> they could hear the river height instead of using a text
email. I thought
> if I
> could have a library of small WAV files for each number,
a "point", and
> some
> words, maybe I could combine the needed pieces from
multiple WAV files:
> "Potomac" + "Height is" + "5" + "point" + "4" + "5" +
"feet"
>
> Somehow join those little WAV files into a single WAV
file:
> "Potomac height is 5 point 4 5 feet"
>
> I can't believe CF could join these files, but if anyone
has any ideas,
> please
> let me know!
> Thanks....
>

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