Photoshop Album - does LR read data ?

There was talk on the forums during Beta about support for Album Users.
Does V1.0 ship with any way of reading in Album database/metadata ?
With 20,000 images catalogued in album I'm reluctant to move even though Lightroom looks great.
Thanks

It's true that Adobe is not forcing anyone to move from Elements / Album to LR, but circumstances ARE forcing us, or will at some point. The organizer is a PC-only solution, because it's based on the Microsoft Access DB. Even PSE for Mac doesn't have it. And, unfortunately, it is a dead-end, in that there's no way to get your raw images out of it with any metadata, such as tags. With jpg's, you can tell PSE to write the tags to the files, and you can then import those files into LR or some other app with the keywords intact (though you will lose hierarchy, collections, version stacks, etc.). Not perfect, but acceptable. However, with raw images, that is not possible because PSE won't write tags to raw files - neither xmp sidecars, nor dng. Their tags live only in PSE's own database, and there's no good way to get them out.
So, I wanted to switch to mac, and I was out of luck. Furthermore, I just wanted to "rescue" my images from a dead-end solution. Why add thousands more images to PSE, and do all the work of keywording, etc., if I'll never be able to get that data out of PSE? I was even willing to write a program to do it by accessing the Access database directly, but Adobe has refused to publicize the format of that database (the data dictionary) so it's tough to do. (There is one reverse-engineered "solution" out there, but it's specific to iView, and also reportedly has problems.)
LR seemed like the perfect answer. It's FAR superior to PSE for my workflow. It's PC-MAC cross-platform. It follows good current practice in that it stores most important data about each photo in or with the photo itself, so that it can be moved to some other application if ever necessary (remember that photos may live for generations, and NO application lives that long). And it's Adobe, so I assumed that it would play well with other Adobe products. Specifically, I assumed that it would import my stuff from PSE. While for a long time Adobe never specifically said that they would provide a PSE->LR path, they implied that they would, and in the last couple of months before launch they did confirm that they would provide it.
What a disappointment to find that it doesn't work very well. It got all of my collections right (though I lose the order, I can live with that). But it missed the last 1/3 of my keywords, and the number of images in LR is slightly different from the number in PSE. I've got a bunch of images that have no keywords at all, presumably because they were in that last 1/3 of my tags. I guess I'll just go back in and add them by hand, but I've got no confidence that the images that DO have keywords have ALL of their keywords or that they're correct. What a mess!
So, no, Adobe isn't forcing us, but it sure would be nice if they would help us out of a dead-end situation that is created by their non-standard practices in PSE, especially since we're willing to spend our money and buy a new application from them to do it. I appreciate that they've tried to do so by adding this import function, but it's nearly useless if it doesn't work reliably.

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