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One of the best pieces of self-hosted software ever to exist.
Edit: This is Immich! for the folks who don't know.
Hmm. While I applaud Immich for existing at all, it kind of feels developed with not me as a user in mind. I have Terabytes of pictures I have taken over the couple of decades of my adult life. They are all neatly organized in folders on my NAS. There is no easy way to just tell Immich "oy, that folder structure? Turn it into albums" I am never going to manually put my 400k+ images into albums. And the folder view in the Android app is behind too many clicks to make it any fun using it.
I guess I have to wrangle with the CLI or something to turn my folders into albums.
But... why??? People use existing file structures. Make it easy for those to integrate into your app.
Nothing of the sort on the roadmap either. Unless integrating folder structures into Immich albums gets more user friendly, I am reluctant to support the devs.
I'll probably do it anyway because as I said, I'm glad the project exists.
Thanks.
No problemo! https://github.com/Salvoxia/immich-folder-album-creator
Sounds exactly like what I need. I'll give it a try. Thanks a lot!
Currently working with immich go for migrating my images from a folder based structure. It works like a breeze.
Yeah, ideally something like Immich is just some metadata pointing at existing files. An album should be some combination of synced directories (i.e. new files added outside Immich should be detected and added, if selected) and individual files.
That doesn't sound that complex. Maybe I'll look into Immich and see about adding that. I don't currently use it, but I don't have an image solution, so I'll give it a shot.
Did you see the external libraries options?
I haven't used Immich, so no. I might get around to it sometime in the next couple months.