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While DEVONthink excels at handling text-based documents, it can also contain multimedia files such as images, audio, and video. While not designed to replace Photos or Music, DEVONthink can be used as a repository for media files, whether for nostalgia, business, research, or any other project-related purpose. View and add images to documents, like rich text or Markdown documents. For a more visually appealing view of images, you can use set the item list to View > as Icons. You can play audio and video with Apple's familiar controls. Combine the audio-visual files with an annotation files and you can take notes as it plays back, including the ability to add timestamps for easy, future navigation in the playback. And yes, you can also just play a song in the background, if you'd like! Two of the most powerful media features in DEVONthink are the integration of AI speech-to-text transcription and image analysis. Your audio or video files can be converted, automatically or on-demand, into a transcript of the text. So you can convert and read your sermons, lectures, speeches, sound bites, etc. With your images, you can ask your AI engine to tell you about an image, whether asking for a description of it, wondering what a foreign sign says, or requesting a story idea based on it. Possible uses: Create a dedicated database of images Create media rich documents Include project-related images, audio, and video in your databases Play your music from within your work environment Continue to read here: Transcribe your audio-visual files Use your images, audio, and video