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Re: Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based

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Post by Maakuth »

fundamental wrote: post #3

I tried out a few options a couple of years back and I've stuck with Piwigo since then. It seems to work well enough for my needs and the export functionality built into digikam seems to make it simple to sync up photos between my desktop and server.

Me too. For me, it was important to be able to point it to my folders (well, symlinking to them) and 'syncing' so it read the metadata and generated the thumbnails without the need to upload them anywhere. Also the calendar view has proven useful. My collection of around 90k photos works well with it, even with my meek Atom-based home server.

One feature I'm missing at the moment is raw conversion support. It would be great if thumbnails and previews of raw photos could be automatically generated. I've solved this via generating previews with ImageMagick, but native raw support in Piwigo would be better.

Re: Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based

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Post by dashundchen »

canada_dry wrote: post #5

I'd love to find one that incorporates the functionality that Picasa (windows desktop) circa 2000 i.e. face recognition/matching. It was way ahead of it's time, and actually worked! Best of all, it did everything locally... not cloud based and thus retained privacy of your personal photo collection.

Digikam has facial recognition and tagging using OpenCV. Can't speak to its accuracy though.

Re: Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based

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Post by walterbell »

For those willing to use local (non-browser) apps, Photosync (iOS, Android, Windows, macOS) will transfer photos between mobile/desktop/cloud and a private central NAS. From there, you can mount the NAS or sync folders to another mobile/desktop device, for use with local apps.

https://www.photosync-app.com/home.html

Re: Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based

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Post by ebg13 »

privong wrote: post #15

I was excited about MediaGoblin[0] for a while, but it seems development has mostly stalled. The last release was in March 2016(!). Things were going smoothly until they seemingly started devoting their resources to implementing federated sharing instead of developing the core media hosting functionality. [0] https://mediagoblin.org/

This is so sad to hear. I wonder how many total hours have been wasted and projects ruined chasing federation that nobody actually wants in the first place. :|

Re: Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based

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Post by mitchtbaum »

If you don't end up finding what you want, then you could start with scoping out what you intend to find or create (..and post it somewhere find-able :)

For example, I've gone back to Shantsel's UX research several times over the course of thinking through app designs, eg:

* http://shnatsel.blogspot.com/2012/08/irc-client-new-tab-mock...

* http://shnatsel.blogspot.com/2012/03/true-app-center.html

Re: Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based

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Post by preek »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #10

Is there one that can import Mac photo libraries an remove duplicate pictures by the way?

I successfully used fdupes and findimagedupes (both commandline tools) for that purpose. I moved my photos Mac library to shotwell (LINUX).
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