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153 points · 69 comments · allenleee

  1. lucideer · · focus · HN ↗
    possibly off-topic, but for anyone interested in this on a more cross-platform / holistic basis, Immich does this

    (& by "this" I mean an approximate AI search for photos & videos - I can't account for the "every frame", nor for the comparative search quality)

    1. mannyv · · focus · HN ↗
      Tried immich and there was a lot not to like. It behooves everyone to try each one and see if it fits.

      Just for product aesthetics, i believe it created a thumbnail folder with every resolution, which is annoying since i have a multi-decade 8tb library.

      There were other actual issues with organization and display. But with this I realized I can just get gemini to write a DAM for me in a weekend.

      1. lucideer · · focus · HN ↗
        Caching & overall library directory structures are configurable fwiw. I find the mobile integrations to be the biggest differentiators.
        1. mannyv · · focus · HN ↗
          I understand why it did what it did, but I didn't want to spend the time digging in and changing its behavior.

          The view options are what killed it in the end.

          The thumbnails issue was just me looking at the sausage and like "ugh, I wouldn't have done that."

          It's always a tradeoff between time and work. I would have done a sliding window around the current screen, but then you might have placeholders. Maybe it should do low-res first and generated hi-res thumbnails 3 pages out while scrolling. But that's a lot of work for the 10% case.

          What I want is aperture back, with all the fun AI stuff and using Affinity for photo editing (which I have anyway). I'll add that to my queue of projects I guess.

          1. ryandrake · · focus · HN ↗
            In general, I hate it when software is opinionated about my directory structure, or tries to build its own “library” on top of / in addition to my files on disk. More software should be flexible about the user’s existing data and directory structure.
            1. lucideer · · focus · HN ↗
              fwiw if you're referring to immich in this comment, it doesn't. mannyv is referring to a different type of on-disk organisation (thumb display caches).
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