Do any of these open-source solutions support Apple's Live Photos and videos alongside ordinary photos? I don't really want to have multiple applications for my family memories stuff. Just want to toss them in a directory and let on-photo/video-file metadata tags sort it out. Face auto-tagging and geo- and time-based grouping a must. Otherwise, can (ideally, would, in fact) just serve up dead-simple ugly HTML, if it's gonna be a web-tech thing, to minimize the developer workload if I have to take it over because the project dies.
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
#72I'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? A…
> Are there any photo clients for windows that present multiple folders as a single coherent timeline?
PhotoStructure does this (and I believe is the only software that does robust time zone inference, as well). (I've posted elsewhere here with more details).
Re: Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based
#73Try digiKam. Its GPL-licensed and runs on GNU/Linux, Windows and Mac OSs. The developers are readily available via a mailing list and a new version just came out. I've used it for years and find is quite good. It is very full-featured though, so you might need to spend some time getting to know it.
Re: Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based
#74I've been using Lychee [1] on a vps with good results. It looks pretty good, has multi-user capability, metadata editing, etc. It would be nice if it had some geotagging integration and ability to group albums into sets. I filed a bug report and the developers/maintainers fixed it very quickly. [1] https://github.com/LycheeOrg/Lychee
I've been helping on the laravel v4 project. The devs are pretty friendly and I haven't found anything with a better UI than lychee. Three project doesn't do everything but what it does do, it does well.
Re: Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based
#75I've been unable to find an open source multiuser local photo product. I'd love for my whole family to upload cell phone photos and SD cards to a central place we could share and tag from, without it belonging to Google.
This is exactly how my family uses PhotoStructure: https://blog.photostructure.com/introducing-photostructure/
Re: Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based
#76Check out Koken. Pair it with Lightroom for editing if desired. Self hosted and quite powerful. http://koken.me/
Unfortunately not under an open source license, and the license can be revoked or changed "at any time, for any reason, without notice." (EDIT: clarified that the issue is the license; the source is readable)
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Re: Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based
#77Is there one that can import Mac photo libraries an remove duplicate pictures by the way?
I had this same issue.
PhotoStructure can read iPhoto libraries (and LR XMPs), and will coalesce both "sidecar" dupes (like JPG/RAW pairs), as well as images that were downsampled from other photo services (like Google Photos). It can leave your originals where they are, or copy them into a single time-stamped folder hierarchy (yes, you can edit the format of the timestamp if you don't like the LR standard). Files with the same SHA are not copied, but referenced in your library db.
Your library's metadata is kept both on disk (in XMP sidecars) as well as a sqlite db for fast access, and you can run queries on the db to do anything more exotic.
Re: Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based
#78Personal plug: I'm working on PhotoStructure, after trying many, many open source photo projects (and being a committer for years of one of the most popular, "gallery.") PhotoStructure is browser-based (using Vue), and scales to hundreds of thousands of assets over millions of files. Your library can be created on a Mac, saved on your NAS, then later opened and managed by a Linux box, seamlessly. Raw images have high…
awesome, just signed up for the beta
Re: Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based
#79I haven't tried https://github.com/agile-leaf/50mm yet. But am curious about it and similar solutions.
Re: Ask HN: Personal photo library recommendations? Open source, browser-based
#80Personal plug: I'm working on PhotoStructure, after trying many, many open source photo projects (and being a committer for years of one of the most popular, "gallery.") PhotoStructure is browser-based (using Vue), and scales to hundreds of thousands of assets over millions of files. Your library can be created on a Mac, saved on your NAS, then later opened and managed by a Linux box, seamlessly. Raw images have high…
Signed up for the beta! I've been looking for something like this for my ~1TB photo database ranging back to 1999.