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definitely needed
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Please yess, add EXIF AND XMP (into pic embedded) support.
Already submitted LIKE on the first post.
Is there a roadmap?
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yes, add EXIF support.
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definitely need this feature. Without it current support for photos does not serve anyone who has made the effort to tag and describe their photo collection.
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I don’t want my pictures to be sent to server X for processing Y. I have my pictures already tagged. Liked the first post to Vote.
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I would also like to see this feature added, or at least a process to update the names and descriptions in the Plex metadata database in bulk. For example if I knew what URL I could pass a query string to, I could easily write a script to recursively update the name/description from the image exif data.
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Please please introduce manual tagging for photos!
I can’t believe the first post has only just over 130 “likes” (aka VOTES).
Metadata is a basic component of any image library and in 2017 to not support at the very least EXIF (but also XMP and of course basic IPTC) is inexcusable. Imagine Plex not supporting ID3 in MP3 files?
Plex seems to be the all-around best Media playback platform and by extension, that includes photos. I can’t even think of another solution for multi-device image browsing of local-server/share stored photos. Self-made cloud if you will for people into that terminology. The alternatives are really rather egregious, necessitating mirroring your photo collection to a cloud service and then possibly using only their single-service app - while paying monthly premiums if you want to store originals.
So let’s get on with this already. IPTC, EXIF, XMP (including sidecar please). Then maybe we can get on with Lightroom integration to see fully edited/transformed results.
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I just joined Plex and was expecting this feature :neutral: (
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BUMP.
In my opinion this feature should have been there since the beginning. Extra features like news and automatic tagging are nice, but names from persons or places are usually not found automaticly. Atleast offer a way to abuse the automatic tagging to add manual tags as well.
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As with many others above I have years and years of digital photos in my library which I have maintained and tagged using different tools over the years, Adobe Photoshop Elements, Lightroom, Picasa, Apple Photos, Flikr.
Almost all the tools allow you to embed the metadata you have spent ages adding to the photos as IPTC or XMP or write them to sidecar XMP files.
I would expect any photo library platform with it’s salt to read this metadata in and offer it as a means of searching, browsing and exploring your photos. Whilst the new automated services being offered for tagging photos by the likes of Apple and Google can be useful and save a lot of work (facial recognitions is great when it works and the automatic slideshows of things like an event or your child growing up can be great) you also still need manual tagging over rides and the ability to edit the outputs of these things as they are by no means infallible.
No doubt Apple and Google have greater resources to throw at their image recognition and tagging technologies than Plex does and it seems a little foolish that Plex should try and compete in this area. That said, though, if it is using an outside service and can deliver comparable results it’s nice that it can offer this, but crazy that there are no real tools for manually changing tags or importing ones that are already entered. Also, there is no doubt that each service that does automatic tagging will have it’s own strengths and weaknesses and if we can use them and then get the tags out from it as metadata with our pictures or as a bunch of sidecar metadata files and Plex can read those in and maybe even offer a way of merging them with some granular control, then we can have the best of all those worlds.
I was hoping that Plex would allow me to take full control of my own photo library and ditch expensive subscriptions to online photo storage services by running it all on my own server as it does with my movie and music collection also freeing me of being tied to either Apple or Google mobile platforms. That is why I decided to buy the full Plex Pass, and I hope it will eventually do all that in a way that is more rounded, but the current offering is not there yet and will only be once all EXIF, IPTC and XMP fields and tags are imported with the photos, and are searchable and editable within the photo library.
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Please also see this thread where a request for this was split off by a Plex employee and like the original/first post in the thread to vote.
It seems that there is some awareness of the need for this feature within the Plex team and they are looking into it but need to learn a lot more to implement it. Hopefully it will be coming soon in the future. I for one see it as a potential major draw for future Plex users since it will allow for properly maintaining your own cloud photo library without having to commit to the restrictions of a single platform vendor like google or Apple and pay their cloud storage fees. To my mind a permanent Plex pass becomes a very attractive option in this context (and is the reason why I committed) but only if it works with your existing photo library with it’s tags and albums you may have spent ages creating and allows you to take any further work you put in to it on to other platforms by supporting metadata export if you eventually decide to move on.
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Also, as I am new to these forums and I am learning the feature request voting system I have noticed that if you mark a post as insightful you can’t mark it as like as well. Vote totals appear to be garnered by the Plex team based on likes so don’t like the mark as insightful as well, it might remove your vote from counting!
(Plex team please confirm if this is the case)
Hello , EXIF support for photos libraries is really missing on Plex.
I support the idea
@Packarvel77 said:
Hello , EXIF support for photos libraries is really missing on Plex.
I support the idea
Did you ‘Like’ the first post in this thread yet? Only that will count as a vote and make this feature request gain importance for Plex employees
https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/46128/rules-for-this-forum-inc-how-to-vote#top
This is a truly needed feature! Plex, please import existing metadata photo tags into the tag database you’ve already implemented… We need the ability to search for photos based on those tags. This would dramatically increase my use of, and reliance on, the Plex app.
PLEASE add this feature! After a decade of managing my photo library with embedded metadata it’s an absolute shame and waste that Plex doesn’t take advantage of this. It would elevate the photo system’s quality and usefulness dramatically.
XMP support would also be fantastic, but that’s secondary to basic embedded metadata that virtually every image format provides.
Liked the original post – please implement!
Any news about these features?
