Feature Request for Browsing Photos

[Der-Gute 14]

Hi there,

 

Currently testing Emby and have to say: Good Alternative to Plex. 

 

There are two things im missing:

 

1: Photo Timeline.

A View of all photos not sorted by folders. A Scrollable Timeline would  to navigate.

2: Show Photos by specific days:

In Amazon photos i have a great function, that changed my behaviour for watching photos:

Watch photos that were taken exactly 1 year ago or 2 or 3 or.... 

 

Both Requests offer the ability to not only browse photos by browsing folders. You get photo recommendations. Whats better than watching photos of your kids 3 years ago?

 

From my understanding it could be done by making a Select Statement each day that dynamically updates the year folders.

 

I think it would be Great!

[Luke 39618]

hi @@Der-Gute, i think these are both great ideas, thanks !

[the1legend 45]

plus 1 for this.

Edited February 17, 2018 by the1legend

[mtjj 31]

Since someone raised photos....

 

It would be really good to be able to browse and filter photos by metadata. Photo metadata fields well defined (see https://www.photometadata.org/META-Resources-Field-Guide-to-Metadata ) and being able to browse / filter by dates / keywords / captions / locations etc. would put Emby streets ahead of any competitors. Just being able to browse by keyword would give a huge benefit to those of us with tagged photo collections, and adding in more metadata fields gives opportunities to deliver further capabilities, whether in the core product or in plugins - browse photos by location on a map, for example. 

 

I know you guys have a lot to work on and Emby is a great product already, but you might want to consider this generally - I made a similar comment on movie / tv metadata in a thread here and a request for ebook metadata in another thread here. I'm not sure how you've engineered the current database backend to handle media metadata and the search / filter front end to utilise it - hopefully there would be a way to expand on both in an open ended way that can pull in more detail and make it available to users. That would be awesome :-)

[popy 66]

+1 for this.
Also a simple sharing button on albumbs/collections would be great

[ebr 15574]

2 hours ago, popy said:

+1 for this.
Also a simple sharing button on albumbs/collections would be great

Hi.  Please post new ideas in a new request.  However, this request already exists and, I'm not sure exactly where you want to share these but doing things like that to public sites (like social media) opens up a huge can of of worms.

 

[jnk5y 0]

Now that google has decided to kill unlimited backups for google photos I would love to ditch it and use emby instead. Ordering by date taken should be an easy (is anything easy?) start. +1

[LiquidFX 140]

I have started moving all of my Google Photos to my home server, I would love to see the photo side developed a bit more. Being able to rotate an image on screen would be a nice feature as well.

[popy 66]

+1

[ggrallo 4]

I would love to see metadata tags and other smart sorting options, too!. +1

[vonstorch 0]

Yes, I would agree. An overhaul of the photos using all the given metadata pictures have in them. Organizing and streaming slideshows based on the metadata would be awesome.

[AlastorSitri 2]

+1 to this, something similar to Plex's timeline view would be ideal

[LiquidFX 140]

This request has no traction

[Luke 39618]

1 hour ago, LiquidFX said:

This request has no traction

Hi, more photo features are planned for future updates. Thanks.

[Gonga_76 0]

+1 For this feature - something similar to Plex's timeline view would be ideal - that takes both videos and images in an aggregate view.

[CasaAtardecer 9]

Hello friend,

I have posted this question in multiple general forums and also in several feature requests because all of these threads are on the same subject which is talking about or looking for support or asking for features regarding photo file metadata.

Here is a question about how Emby handles the metadata differences between VIDEOS and PHOTOS: As you already know, users can populate their NFOs with the xml code <set><name>COLLECTION</name></set> to gather together VIDEOS into a COLLECTION; however, the only method to gather PHOTOS into that same COLLECTION is to edit manually the metadata for each PHOTO. At present, the Emby database accepts and records four native IMAGE file metadata tags; specifically, date, title, description (OVERVIEW), and subject (TAG).

Can the Emby library database be updated to accept and record a native XMP metadata tag that the PHOTO enthusiasts community could use for COLLECTIONS; for example, ALBUM, which is already commonly coded into lots of different IMAGE file types?

Cheers!

[Luke 39618]

6 hours ago, CasaAtardecer said:

Hello friend,

I have posted this question in multiple general forums and also in several feature requests because all of these threads are on the same subject which is talking about or looking for support or asking for features regarding photo file metadata.

Here is a question about how Emby handles the metadata differences between VIDEOS and PHOTOS: As you already know, users can populate their NFOs with the xml code <set><name>COLLECTION</name></set> to gather together VIDEOS into a COLLECTION; however, the only method to gather PHOTOS into that same COLLECTION is to edit manually the metadata for each PHOTO. At present, the Emby database accepts and records four native IMAGE file metadata tags; specifically, date, title, description (OVERVIEW), and subject (TAG).

Can the Emby library database be updated to accept and record a native XMP metadata tag that the PHOTO enthusiasts community could use for COLLECTIONS; for example, ALBUM, which is already commonly coded into lots of different IMAGE file types?

Cheers!

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