Is there any of these that can be pointed at a photo library on a NAS or harddrive, instead of having the application copy all the images into it's own location/database (which therefore required double the harddrive space)?
Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based
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Re: Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based
#42I'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.
Picasa was so useful, so of course Google had to kill it.
It took multiple disparate photo directories and presented everything in a timeline of folders. And because everything was local, that happened quickly, rather than waiting for your browser to get the next 100 photo results from a javascript call or whatever.
Are there any photo clients for windows that present multiple folders as a single coherent timeline? And can manage tens of thousands of pictures? I've got stuff going back to the late 1990s and would love to be able to find all those old cat pictures or whatever.
Re: Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based
#43Drawing Parallels - really would be happy if there was an application that could use Object storage as backend.. and could be hosted with AuthN and AuthZ
Re: Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based
#44I 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/
Media Goblin is one of those projects that I really WANT to like, but I can't. The project goals are admirable. And when it's up and running it's great. But it's incredibly finicky to maintain and it's quite challenging to install.
Re: Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based
#45Shameless plug: I'm currently working on a solution called Photonix, though it's still very much pre-1.0 at the moment. https://photonix.org/ Installation is fairly simple with Docker, frontend is web-based (React), backend is Python with a sprinkling of Tensorflow. So far auto-tagging of photos by location, object detection and colour is fairly decent. UI is progressing and is useable on most devices, though quite m…
Will you have support for handling duplicate images? People are either super organised, or the complete opposite. When you have multiple copies for backup and then want to consolidate to a library you want to hide your messiness. I've been struggling to find a tool that handles that handles the duplicates problem within a web interface. I've been experimenting with some approaches including perceptual hashes and was…
I definitely hear you regarding duplication. This whole project evolved from a script I wrote to do just that. There is a concept of multiple versions (files) of an image so different edits with the same metadata timestamp will show only once and you'll be able to select the preferred one. I prefer to handle things this way to start and then suggest deletions based on same hash rather than deleting up front.
I don't have any experience of Lightroom but I can have a go at reading the files if you think it's useful.
Re: Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I really like it, though I'm not photographer, so I won't be able to speak for your main user base. One thing I would like is when I open a large image, it should give me a loading status. Instead, it just blacked out for a moment and image suddenly loaded.
As a developing photographer, having the biggest image isn't as important as having a large-ish image with additional metadata.
At the moment I create "thumbnails" at various sizes on discovery (4k, 2k, etc). Currently the 4k version is displayed but this will adapt and download the smaller versions on smaller devices.
The UI for metadata is a bit unintuitive at the moment but you can scroll down to see it when you're viewing the fullscreen photos.
Re: Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based
#47Shameless plug: I'm currently working on a solution called Photonix, though it's still very much pre-1.0 at the moment. https://photonix.org/ Installation is fairly simple with Docker, frontend is web-based (React), backend is Python with a sprinkling of Tensorflow. So far auto-tagging of photos by location, object detection and colour is fairly decent. UI is progressing and is useable on most devices, though quite m…
Will you have support for handling duplicate images? People are either super organised, or the complete opposite. When you have multiple copies for backup and then want to consolidate to a library you want to hide your messiness. I've been struggling to find a tool that handles that handles the duplicates problem within a web interface. I've been experimenting with some approaches including perceptual hashes and was…
Face detection and recognition is definitely planned and looks like it should be entirely doable.
Re: Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based
#48Not specifically for photos, but I have been a user of Perkeep, a long running project from one of the golang maintainers that focuses on long term storage of one's data: https://perkeep.org/doc/
Although it's no longer actively maintained (IIRC) and some of the importers are currently broken for me (Mastodon importer can't talk to Pleroma, Pinboard has a JSON error, Twitter gives random "account not found", etc.)
Which is a shame because I really like Perkeep/Camlistore as a concept.
Re: Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based
#49I 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/
Media Goblin is one of those projects that I really WANT to like, but I can't. The project goals are admirable. And when it's up and running it's great. But it's incredibly finicky to maintain and it's quite challenging to install.
> The project goals are admirable. And when it's up and running it's great. But it's incredibly finicky to maintain and it's quite challenging to install.
Agreed. I guess I could've been more specific in my original comment, easy of installation/maintenance are the things I wish they'd have worked on before worrying about federation. At this point I'm thinking about what will e the least painful way to migrate from mediagoblin to something else.
Re: Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based
#50I'm surprised none of the suggestions seem to have anything for user-inputted tags.