The overwhelming focus on Plex has been around videos and movies which is fully understandable. Here is a "simple" ask that I think would go a long way in dramatically expanding the usefulness of the photo album functionality. Please support XMP within photos and use the tags found within to po…

Is there an FAQ on gaining access to the source for the picture library plug-in so that I could take a shot at adding this functionality during the long holiday?

It seems like metadata is a large part of the different libraries in Plex except the Photos library. I am surprised there is not more interest in this feature. Even if you haven't spent the time tagging your photo collection most modern digital cameras and phones automatically store a geo location i…

Moving my photo library away from being iPhoto-centric to Plex has shown a real need for this. I used to rely on iPhoto for facial recognition and geo-mapping of photos. I've found that I can do some of this in Google's Picasa and it'll write the data back to the raw files via EXIF tags. Would be ni…

Anyone interested in being able to filter based on tags that are in photos, and I think many of us are, please remember the rules for Feature & Bug Voting forum and like the first post in this topic to cast your official vote in favor of adding this feature. Hopefully with enough votes, this feature…

I would love to see improvements to the photo tagging capabilities. I'd like to be able to create DLNA folders based on simple tag queries and also have these folders show up as collections with the plex clients.

I would love to see improvements to the photo tagging capabilities. I'd like to be able to create DLNA folders based on simple tag queries and also have these folders show up as collections with the plex clients. Good suggestion. Glad to see more interest in this topic. As a reminder to anyone…

Great start, however I would like it to expand even further. As I wrote in a different post: I’ve got 50,000 photos and I want my family to be able to browse and watch the photos from their laptops, smartphones and the TV. It’s quite worthless having all those photos if no one ever watches them cau…

I would love to see some more love for the photos on Plex. This, I think, is the main feature missing now that trailers are back. I think it would be awesome if it was something similar to ThisLife. I am currently using the free account and it is really cool with all the tagging options. https://w…

I would love to see some more love for the photos on Plex. This, I think, is the main feature missing now that trailers are back. I think it would be awesome if it was something similar to ThisLife. I am currently using the free account and it is really cool with all the tagging options. https:/…

I agree that some of the functionality of ThisLife would be nice to see in Plex (e.g. the timeline and tagging). However, I notice that ThisLife does not always handle things well. For example, People tags are only held on the site, they are not held as metadata in the images themselves. So if yo…

Refresh the Photo Library plugin with Support for XMP

Feature Suggestions

gcoupe October 29, 2014, 8:50pm 12

I use a dedicated (Digital Asset Management) tool to manage the XMP metadata in my photos. The resulting collection is then available to be browsed by any application, including Plex. I’m not looking for Plex to be a DAM tool, but I wish it would be able to exploit the metadata better than it does at the moment.

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Refresh the Photo Library plugin with Support for XMP

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