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2006-10-04, 08:13
(This post was last modified: 2009-05-05, 13:39 by Gamester17.)
As an extension to a previous suggestion of being able to "read" EXIF data from photos, it might also be cool to be able to "scan" a directory of pictures, as we do for music and videos, extract that EXIF data and then provide a library view of images.
The advantages to this is we can provide some nice "views" of the photo library, such as grouping by date or keyword data, and being able to search photos on keywords. Most of the good photo management software uses the EXIF keyword field, and the date is already populated by digital cameras. Geotag info would also provide pretty cool filtering options.
You could then use this database of pics to populate a screensaver with a "playlist" of photos, of sunsets, for example.
Should be pretty simple to do given the library code is already there for music and videos, and EXIF data is a well documented format.
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Well, doesn't look like many people are interested in this feature.....
Without more user support I don't see this moving into XBMC, too bad I think it could be great for anyone with a large photo collection.
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then by all means, submit a patch
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I had to give this a little push back to the top just to see if the development team had any interest or thoughts about this feature.
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I'm not a developer, but I have an interest in the IPTC keywords scanning. I just recently started adding keywords as well since I use Picasa on my PC and the search works great. It basically creates virtual albums for you. Now I wish I had the ability to do this in XBMC since the photos look much better on my 52" RPTV for slideshows. I don't see any benefit (for me) in scanning the exif info, except possibly the date. Perhaps it will get added someday.
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On the side of user support, I think this feature would work very well as part of a media center.
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This is something I am looking for. Been able to have the photo's selectable based on tags. So the same photo can be assigned to multiple albums...
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Thanks for the new EXIF viewer in "My Pictures".... Will this make sorting by EXIF data available as some point? I can't give up of hope for a pictures database.
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Probably - the tag info is there.
What would you want to sort on?
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It would be great to sort by the Date/Time and/or the Keywords but to work I think you'll need to scan the whole picture directory and sub folders at one time. I'm sure that adds LOTS of work......
Thanks for the consideration
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I personally don't have any "keywords" in any pictures I've got floating around. Currently the EXIF date is extractable, and thus it can be made sortable.