orcist 2 Posted January 16, 2017 Share Posted January 16, 2017 I'm just getting started on adding a life time of photos to Emby, and I was wondering how others organize their libraries. My personal photos go back 50 years. Then there's my wife's family's and my parent's family photos. Some of mine are family photos, but a lot are landscapes and buildings. So how do you organize yours. Any tips? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuahsocramid 3 Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Evening! My photo album goes back 18yrs and organized by year # and then month #. So 2000 with sub-folders of 01 through 12. And if an event warrants its own folder then I'll create a new folder within that month #. So 2000 / 01 / Event Title. With the camera upload/sync function in Emby I have a "Photos to be synced" folder and within that folder are folders for each device (my phone & wife's phone). When Emby does its camera sync the device folder gets another set of folders (automatically via Emby) depending on where they reside in your phone. For example my device folder has other sub-folders titled: Camera, Downloaded, Screenshots, Hangouts. I've recently become cognizant of all the data Google collects. Although I enjoy google and their products...I felt having 18yrs of photos is a tad much. Especially when I have my own server & backups that can do this for me. It took me over 8 hours to remove all my photos from Google! They don't make it easy. Browsing through my hierarchy of photos on Emby is easy and makes sense for me. I use their photo viewer on both the phone app and Android TV. Their are only 2 issues I currently have...posted and Luke & Team are looking into...are videos recorded on my phone are no longer uploading/syncing and photos aren't going into my devices folder anymore. These issues started after I did a factory reset on my Nexus 6 which was about a month or so ago. Otherwise I enjoy Emby's Camera Upload and Photo viewer. Hope that helps! ~sd Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skidmarks 188 Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Also using Year then months for sub-directories. Seems to work the best for me (to keep organized). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orcist 2 Posted January 18, 2017 Author Share Posted January 18, 2017 Thank you both very much for the advice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37063 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 @@nuahsocramid thanks for the feedback ! as far as the device folders go, you may need to configure that again in your Emby server dashboard. When you reset the phone it's possible the phone's AndroidID changed which now results in the server seeing it as a different device. Please let me know if this helps. Thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuahsocramid 3 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 @@Luke I'm honestly not sure what "need to configure that again in your Emby dashboard." means. The andriodID potentially changing makes sense. But does this mean I go into the devices section, find my phone, and hit the garbage can button? And then sign back on with my phone? Thanks for your time. ~sd Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37063 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 In other words if you configured a specific upload folder for that device, you may need to do it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuahsocramid 3 Posted January 19, 2017 Share Posted January 19, 2017 ...And in my absent mind I truly don't recall where I directed my phone to sync it's photos. I do recall where I told Emby to save these synced photos in a different location...And there was a check box for something along the lines of "make a new folder for each device". So are you recommending I create a new sync folder? Or is there a section where I direct each device to a specific folder? Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuahsocramid 3 Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 @@Luke In the sync - camera uploads section of the dashboard it states specific folders can be assigned to a device by clicking on it in the devices page. When I go to the devices tab, click on my phone, all I can do is rename the phone. Is there another section I'm just not visually seeing? Thanks Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37063 Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 I think there is an issue with this field not being visible on the stable server. Try the online web app for now: http://app.emby.media Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuahsocramid 3 Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 @@Luke Morning. Trying that...And clicking into devices, then my device (and Bride's), I'm still not seeing an option to direct either device to a specific folder. Interesting thing, which is why I clicked on my Bride's too is that my phone is showing up as "Android TV". Where as my Bride's is listed as mobile phone. I clicked the trash can for my device, logged back in, and it starts as a mobile device, and then changes back to AndroidTV. Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37063 Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 You must have the android tv app installed on the phone, which is fine if you do, there's nothing preventing you from doing that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuahsocramid 3 Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 @@Luke Hmmm...Interesting. I'll check that. As for the web app, still the same experience as before. Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuahsocramid 3 Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 @@Luke ...Confirmed I'm on the "Emby for Android" and not "Emby for Android TV" app. But if it doesn't matter, then no biggie. Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37063 Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 What version of the app? You can check in the installed apps list on your device. thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuahsocramid 3 Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 @@Luke I'm showing 3.8.34 for the version Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37063 Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Do you mean 2.8.34? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuahsocramid 3 Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 My bad....I was looking at the change log and assumed that was the version. I'm on 2.8.40 Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37063 Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 Ok, thanks for digging all this up and apologies, it is actually an issue on the current released server and has already been corrected for the next release. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuahsocramid 3 Posted January 20, 2017 Share Posted January 20, 2017 @@Luke No need to apologise. Other forms/products have no where near the response rate as You & Team. So it's appreciated. Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuahsocramid 3 Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 @@Luke wanted to followup that I'm seeing the option to direct my device to a specific folder now for camera uploads. So thank you. The other thing I wanted to followup on was a prior issue of not being to upload MP4s from my phone. Those are still not taking place. Any thoughts there? Thanks as always. Sent from my Nexus 6 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37063 Posted February 9, 2017 Share Posted February 9, 2017 It's still on our list for review, thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueeyiz702 216 Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 @@Luke is there a optimal size for personal photo's in Emby, I use this folder for my images that so on scrren with the emby for samsung app. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37063 Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 We don't really have any guidelines because the server can scale them down when they are too big. But just like video transcoding there is a cost to that so keep that in mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAlGaInTl 279 Posted April 19, 2017 Share Posted April 19, 2017 (edited) I haven't really used Emby for photo management yet. I do have a LOT of photos spanning about 20 years in digital form. Most of them I organize in folders with a date and description of the event. This was for sorting/searching purposes. For Example 20170401 April Fools Day When organizing old photos if I wasn't sure of the date, I would do something like 20050100 Some Event Now, I keep a copy of all my photos on the server, but have let Google Photos do the organization for me. I uploaded all my photos. Not only does it provide a powerful backup solution of high quality photos (for free), the searching and indexing are simply phenomenal. I will use their tools to find a photo, then I can go to my server and pull the originals if I need to. I love Emby, but I'm not sure it would ever be able to handle the size/complexity of my library. Google has just made it too easy. Edited April 19, 2017 by BAlGaInTl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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