Organizing your photo, video, music files

3 years ago

last modified: 3 years ago

Annie's daily thread has me looking thru my photos, sometimes in search of one I remember, other times just looking for something that fits the theme. My only real search parameter is by date. I'd like to add more search parameters, without having to set up a bunch of files to sort photos into. Is there a photo-library app that would let me tag, add metadata, whatever method you want, to individual photo and search by it later?

Do you have a similar app for your music library? (I used "Foobar" when I was on a pc, but now my DH only supports apple/mac so I'm stuck unless I want to turn into my own tech support!) ETA: just looked that old music website and maybe I'm in luck for the music library after all ... but would still welcome any suggestions....

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Richard (Vero Beach, Florida)
3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago
I like Foobar too and use it in Windows.

But I usually run Linux, so I use DeadBeeF, which is pretty much the same.

Photos? No solution from me. I just throw them in folders named for the date and have to go looking when I want one. I'm too lazy to tag them. :)
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Mo
3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago
I use a PC, and no special software. I either rename the photos, and/or add tags in the properties. Can you do something like that with Apple?
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Its also easy to add to and make albums.
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dedtired
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Ugh, I need to do this as well, after my Great Paper Purge. I have old micro cards with loads of pictures and old computers with stuff on the hard drives. I swear I am going to have it all cleaned up before I die at least I hope so.

My iPhone and ipad are pretty good for keeping photos in categories but the only one who can delete them is me.
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nickel_kg
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3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago
Richard, Mo - yeah, I need something like a meta-data tag that I can alter per file, quickly and easily. Then search and sort by tags, and various configurations of tags. It could/should be more complex than renaming a file, but simpler than Foobar's display capabilities.

Maddie, I played with my search function and it's less than I want. For instance, I can search on "daffodil" and get lots of pics of yellow flowers. But I can't search on "yellow" or "yellow flower" or "flower yellow" -- I get a null result for those terms. I could make up an album scheme but then I'd have to drag/drop or click/paste each time I put a pic in an album. So if I had albums for yellow, flowers, landscapes, national parks, insects ... one picture of a daisy with a butterfly on it in the park overlook would go in five albums. [edited to add: still one picture file, not five picture files, but that's still more clicking than I want to do.] I'd rather have one big tag field that I could type those words into, and later search on them.

Dedtired, what do you mean by keeping photos in categories? Is that the same, or different, than folders aka albums?

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