Photo ui and slideshow - grouping, speed, display filename, exif comment, geolocation

[ginjaninja 537]

geting together at christmas, with all the family wishing to display their photos, it became apparent there was some useful functionality missing from emby.

 

people have already requested an option to control slideshow speed.

 

apple iphotos has a useful function to convert exif geolocation not only into nearest town eg london but also to pick out the actual attraction eg london zoo.

 

grouping by location in ui and displaying location information in ui and slideshow would be good.

 

i dont know if there any free providers for reverse geocoding.

 

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/examples/geocoding-reverse

 

ordering by date (displaying those dates) and grouping by location (displaying those locations) is very useful when consuming photo content.

 

option to display photo titles in slideshow in particular. ie if you go to the trouble of adding an exif description or filename, this can be displayed. the option exists to display photo title in ui but not on slideshow.

 

(there is an aditional feature request within above for the photo library 'scanner' to assign photo title in order of preference eg. ..1. embedded exif data 2. filename.)

 

aa well as option to display title and location, an option to display photo date in slideshow would be good.

 

the priority is an option to display the photo title in slideshow

 

thanks for considering.

 

 

 

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Edited December 28, 2018 by ginjaninja

[ginjaninja 537]

whilst the emby db schema for photos supports title and photo date (confusingly labeled 'release date' on android at least), emby does not yet have a location field.

 

the photo date needs to be extracted from embedded exif data when available or default to date added when exif date is not available. ffprobe supports exif i believe.

[ginjaninja 537]

currently you cant play a photo album "from here" forward. and in any case the current sort order of the view is not respected in the slideshow.

you can create a playlist as a workaround but this is perhaps a tad cumbersome