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 populate the sort by menus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Metadata_Platform
This would immediately surface rich content stored within photos and greatly expand the manageability of them.
Thank you
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 in the tag. Many mobile phone apps allow you to tag people so there are probably many photo collections with people and other data in the tags.
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 nice if Plex could take advantage of this extra info.
Tagging a photo with a face in Picasa results in a XMP structure being added to EXIF data that looks like this:
RegionInfo: {AppliedToDimensions={H=2304,Unit=pixel,W=3072},RegionList=[{Area={H=0.688368,Unit=normalized,W=0.39388,X=0.802409,Y=0.369358},Name=John,Type=Face},{Area={H=0.58941,Unit=normalized,W=0.368815,X=0.184408,Y=0.404514},Name=Arion,Type=Face}]}
(this is an example of a photo with two faces tagged)
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 request can get the attention it deserves.
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 who is interested in better photo tag support to please click "Like This" on the very first post in this topic. This is the official way to cast your vote to the Plex developers.
Here is a link to the first post:
Thanks
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 cause they’re only browseable in a good way on the stationary computer i use for photoediting/tagging.
To be a platform independent solution Plex with dlna/upnp seems the way to go.
With 50k photos you just can’t browse folders, you’ll go insane before finding the right photos.
Browsing by keywords represented by virtual folders is good, but browsing by ONE keyword/tag/metadata just doesn’t cut it.
What is needed is support of multiple level of keywords, at the very least two levels.
As far as i’m concerned a dynamic two-level virtual folder structure based on keywords would be far better than one keywords.
Let’s say you open the virtual folder for the keyword “Birthday”, then you would be presented with virtual folders for all the keywords that coexist with “Birthday” for any image thus filtering the result further for every step.
There seem to be a gap in the market for this right now, and I guess Plex would gain some traction in the photo community if this was implemented
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.
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.
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 you download a photo tagged with People tags, you'll lose them from the downloaded photo.
Worse still (as far as I'm concerned), ThisLife will strip out a lot of XMP metadata from photos that are uploaded to the site.
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 you download a photo tagged with People tags, you'll lose them from the downloaded photo.
Worse still (as far as I'm concerned), ThisLife will strip out a lot of XMP metadata from photos that are uploaded to the site.
Thanks for looking into that more. That is probably one of the ways they get you to keep paying for their plan. Before actually putting all my photos up to it I will have to consider that. Sadly I would love to keep my photos on plex but that is just not a great option at this time. So, for now, the search for a good photo tool will continue. Or maybe I can just procrastinate until Plex gets these great features.
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.
After nearly 2 years of using plex for my collection of 2000+ movies and 20,000+ tv episodes, and building a dedicated a fully automated fiexget -> utorrent-> filebot -> PMS on win8.1 (and xbmc for those bd.iso's), to seve all my win8.1, web, iphones, and ipads clients, and not forgetting my 11.1ch theater with a univseral remote intergrated to my c-bus automation. The final task remaining is photos!
I am working towards sorting out my images, one of the things I quickly realised is that the "YYYY - Event" folder structure naming is quiet weak and that it becomes extremly hard to find for example, "all the temples in japan" or "photos with wifes mother in law", or "flora photos across multiple folders" to the point where you don't really look at them at all.
This is where i looked into tagging specifically Adobe lightroom, to gain more value out of my photos, I was hopeing that I could tag/rate my photos in lightroom and tidy up my file stucture, and have plex scan the folder and pickup the metadata for tags for "keywords" and "ratings".
This would then achive the WAFrequired as I can thow an ipad at her and she can sit there all night looking photos using the tags, rather than going folder by folder.
I have read some other uses hopeing to see multi-level tag filtering, but even If i could filter by 1 tag for now would be awesome.
I understand some work was done to read the rotation tag, would it be much more to pull keywords and ratings and allow searching?
Another vote, here would be great to see this implemented. :rolleyes:
+1 here. I agree to all of the above, particularly vcahill's comments as I have gone through largely the same process.
Secondly, as a developer, I have spent a lot of time trying to find a usable way to solve this but the capabilities offered within the scope of channel and agent development fall short of what I need. Is there a way to offer to help with the development of this?
Thanks!
Any others out there that would like to see better options for photo organization?
Support for XMP would definitely improve the Photo Library plugin!
I would love to see improvements to Plex photo by adding tagging capabilities. I use Ubuntu/Shotwell photo software and it automatically creates folders based on date photo was taken and further you can tag and multipul tag photos that way you can navigate by date or tags to quickly find a photo of interest, the tags can be saved to the photo so if you import them on another Wala your tags are valid, Hello Plex it’s a No Brainer o:)
I have 40,000+ pictures on my home server, ranging from scanned old family photos and negatives, to iPhone and Android phone pictures…all are extensively tagged. The only practical way for my family and I to search through the photos is using the Windows Live Photo Gallery while on my home network. Plex’s photo searching capabilities are lame at best…if it’s not part of the filename then Plex isn’t going to return any results in a search.
My family and I love Plex (for video and music), and it is great for browsing pictures, but unfortunately worthless when it comes to searching for pictures. Please consider making the indexing of photo tags a feature of Plex in the near future!
I vote for this feature!
A request for the same feature exists already, and it is more popular.
Therefore this one is closed.
Votes are given back to the users who voted on this request. Please think of re-voting in the other thread if you still want it.
