This really is a very easy thing to implement, and extremly odd that it’s missing for Plex subscribers. Please allow keywords at the very least to be read from JPGs into Plex.
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Please implement this feature. I fail to understand the unavailability of this simple, basic and absolutely needed feature.
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Any news on here?
Ive been tagging pictures with picasa in windows since 1994 and i have 27k pictures
Please add this feature to support metadata stored in the picture.
Thanks for your response
Same here. I used to tag with picasa and I would love to be able to keep using those tags with Plex. If this is implemented, I would buy a lifetime Plex Pass and happily promote Plex to lots of people! 
What we’re seeing here is a series of posts over years desperately trying to persuade the developers to include basic support for a facet of Plex - In this case Photo Management. This user frustration is a familiar sight throughout the forum. As with other requests for missing rudimentary capabilities within the Plex portfolio they are completely ignored. Meanwhile development for bells and whistles features ploughs on relentlessly. Surely it’s now time to stop all this negativity by temporarily diverting some of this resource at ‘the missing essentials’. This would make life significantly easier for both the users and the Plex development/support staff.
In addition to the ‘votes’ system, it should be very simple to peruse the forum and identify where functions are repeatedly requested that competing products include as standard. Note also that the forums do not show those that have dabbled with Plex and dumped it when realising what’s missing or the multitude of potential Plex users that do not even try it as their basic features boxes are not ticked.
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Agreed, I dabbled with Plex in the past and was looking at it again… But, without this it’s a deal breaker. I hope this gets added soon, though I’m not holding my breath.
Remember to vote! Located at the start of this thread.
Same here. Sync of embedded tags and plex tags is the missing thing before transfering my photos to plex.
I am looking for options to migrate from Apple Photos and would love to use Plex but the lack of importing XMP tags with all geo location, faces and tags makes the process a no-go. Please include this feature!
Thank you for the screenshot but the interwebs must be breaking my search skills. Can you link to the tutorial? I have not been able to find it.
This is the Help page I found that mentions it. It’s a little sparse, and maybe outdated (or screenshots aren’t from the web app).
https://support.plex.tv/articles/115001682073-places-location-based-photos/
In the web app, when viewing a photo, you can click the ‘info’ button to see the view in my previous screenshot.
You can also click on the locator icon in the map to open Google Maps in a new tab on the location.
Ah, I see what’s going on. A Plex Pass is required which I have not purchased yet. I will start a new thread over in the photos sections so as not to hijack this one for my specific Apple Photos related question.
Thanks for your help!
Oh, yep, I didn’t notice you didn’t have a pass.
Are there any news/plans regarding this request? Will this functionality be added in the near future?
If have created a python script that updates all tags and rating for all images and users (rating is user based) in Plex from the jpeg embedded xmp data.
This script uses the Plex API like Tautulli but requires the timeline feature so you need a Plex Pass.
The script works so far for tests but need of course some tweaking and finalisation.
But as long as plex always transcodes photos plex is not usable on devices like 4k TVs when you do not have powerful hardware for your PMS which is a shame as 4K photos can be easily handled by almost all clients.
So, I try to find a solution or use some other system for my photos. In this case the script is somewhat useless.
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Yes, please add support for reading keyword tag metadata (EXIF/IPTC/XMP) from photo files. Plex already supports mechanisms similar to this in other libraries. Also, Plex is already reading other metadata from the file since it displays camera name, ISO, f/stop, etc…
An imported photo library is likely coming from an application like Lightroom, Photoshop Elements, Apple Photos, ACDsee, Adobe Bridge, etc. where keyword tags were already applied. Having those tags immediately available in Plex is a much better experience than waiting for automatic tagging to finish. Especially since only 1000 photos per month can be processed (as of Sept 2019, see How Automatic Tagging Works). At that rate it will be 2+ years before my photo collection is completely tagged.
Waiting 2 years for my photo collection to be searchable is a lot to ask . . . especially when all of the data is already there.
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Hello, I voted.
Does anyone have any workarounds to tagging photos offline and getting Plex to read them? I know a user posted they used a python script. That may work for me… can that be shared? Any other creative ideas?
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My workaround has been to use a digital asset manager like ACDSee or Lightroom and then export groups of photos based on my more popular keywords into individual directories that are part of the Plex library. I know it is incredibly wasteful (due to the extra drive space) but there is no way I’m spending time putting keywords into a Plex database.
Hi „Plex Team”,
I’m very disappointed with Plex module for storing and organising photos. Lack of support for reading and writing (yes, writing also!) embedded photo tags limits usage of your software! I thought that Plex will be a place where I will be able to organize my photo library into albums and tag photos some key words. But if you can’t read tags from files and you can’t save tags that were set through Plex web interface back to my files, photo module is almost useless for me. I have no option and I will have to still use ‘Photo station” from QNAP (they support read and write on tags, albums, etc…).
PS.
It is interesting that you have such problems/“lack of functionality” in the area of tags maintenance. This problem is not only related to photos but also to music area. The requirement to organise music into albums (on the physical directory level and also in ID3 tags) is completely irrational.
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I’m astonished Plex can’t read image metadata. Clearly a number of others have run into this issue. Does anyone have a work around that can get image data into Plex tags? Plex is unusable for my photo collection as is
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