Add albums as Tags [Sugestion]

[dburner]

Description

Add album metadata in image exif as a tag. I really don't want to lose album information when moving from Google Photos to Synology Photos

Example

• a photo that i've added tags to from Synology Photos:

From https://jimpl.com/

[TheLastGimbus]

Seems interesting!

It would help me intruduce this faster if i had some reaserch already - it this saved in exif/somewhere?

• could you help me with that?

[dburner]

I think its saved in the json, not sure, I will do some research, and try to provide some examples.

[TheLastGimbus]

No no, we already have info about albums from jsons

What i need to know is where to put this data inside JPGs itself

[dburner]

blank_page (1).zip I've uploaded a photo from Synlology with some tags inserted. Hope this helps.

EDIT: Add jpeg also. I'm trying to read this using C# but can't really find where my tags are writen.

[dburner]

I did some digging, found another website (https://processing.compress-or-die.com/analyze-process) that shows this image has XMP and IPTC tags.

Found a library to extrat these in C# https://github.com/drewnoakes/metadata-extractor-dotnet

This seems quite crazy 😄 . Never thought this would be so complicated. So apparently metadata can be in diferent formats JFIF, XPM and IPTC .

    private static void MetadataExtract()
    {
        using var stream = File.OpenRead(Filename);
        var directories = JpegMetadataReader.ReadMetadata(stream);
    }

[dburner]

@TheLastGimbus had any luck with this? 😃

[TheLastGimbus]

i will try to add this when i will actually be inserting exifs into photos :+1:

[dburner]

Oh ok, I thought you were already addding exif info for timestamps.

[TheLastGimbus]

Not yet, but soon ;)

[TheLastGimbus]

did some looking into inserting exifs into photos

it may be very expensinve operation - to insert the exif (with currently available libraries) i will need to:

1. read the whole file into ram
2. insert exif there
3. write this whole file back

...this whole process may:

1. take way longer than just moving the file :confused:
2. lead to bugs, crashes, corrupted files (programming intuition)

my current idea is to insert the exif only to files that don't have it already :thinking:

question to you is:

• does albums-in-exif benefit you very much? does synology integrates with it super-duper well?
• or, one of current album solution could do it? maybe synology has nice detection for what duplicate-copy does ?

[palijn]

Chiming in : I don't care about album tags, but I care about correcting the wrong EXIF data. So, if you would insert EXIF only in files which do not have some, then it's not useful for me. As far as performance is concerned, as long as I get all my files correctly in the end, I don't care if it has to run for three days in a row (though if you're moving files after processing, then the whole process is interruptible-resumable ?)

[TheLastGimbus]

I care about correcting the wrong EXIF data

good to know :eyes: - now, I need details:

• are exifs in your photos wrong?
• or are they missing/stripped
• did you edit a lot of timestamps/locations using gphotos settings?
• do you care mainly about the time, or location is very important for you

more of details: could you send/show me examples for any questions above?

as in #191 - would you mind downloading and running one exiftool command?

edit note: i saw you said:

I'm not confident enough yet to use exiftool properly

hm, okay, but it would be literally: exiftool "-AllDates<FileModifyDate" * - very safe and same for everyone :+1: - exiftool is wayyyy older, thus better tested - than anything i will find for Dart any time soon :1st_place_medal:

far as performance is concerned, as long as I get all my files correctly in the end, I don't care if it has to run for three days in a row

that's good to know :thinking: - i'll care more about "getting files correctly" then

though if you're moving files after processing, then the whole process is interruptible-resumable ?

not at all - i first read and analize the situation read-only, then copy/move files to output, and then do anything to those files in the output (change lastModified etc) - (i want to have consistent support for --copy mode, where input folder is untouched - mainly for myself where this makes testing way easier)

...and, given on how many user-error and confusion i've seen, i want to keep whole gpth straightforward

...and to this "policy", if anything crashes or you want to stop and resume - you just close it and re-run all steps again

so no, no interrupt-resume

[palijn]

EXIF in my photos seem to be formally ok, it's their contents that is wrong. Namely, some photos received in this field the time at which the takeout was done instead of the time at which the photo was taken. I never edited this kind of things in gphotos. I care only about the time, because that's the thing that pollutes the SPhotos timeline .

Next step as per your request : I will provide an exemple and run exiftool on it, maybe more appropriate in https://github.com/TheLastGimbus/GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper/discussions/191 ?

[TheLastGimbus]

some photos received in this field the time at which the takeout was done

What the hell??? I thouth there are no more surprises left from google ;_; ... this is terrifing

yes, please show me screenshots/exiftool dumps of such photos + their jsons etc (before running gpth/anything)

to dump all exif stuff with exiftool just run:

$ exiftool photo.jpg
ExifTool Version Number         : 12.50
File Name                       : DSC_0270.JPG
Directory                       : .
File Size                       : 318 kB
File Modification Date/Time     : 2023:03:20 09:30:40+01:00
File Access Date/Time           : 0000:00:00 00:00:00
File Inode Change Date/Time     : 2023:03:27 20:56:32+02:00
File Permissions                : -rw-rw-r--
File Type                       : JPEG
..........
......

and paste it here (note that this may, obviously, share me the place where photo was took, in case you would really not want it)

maybe more appropriate in https://github.com/TheLastGimbus/GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper/discussions/191

yess, please post stuff there

[palijn]

What the hell??? I thouth there are no more surprises left from google ;_; ... this is terrifing

My deepest most sincere apologies, it seems I wrongly read the information from my takeouts, and that did not seem to have happened. Either no EXIF data, or EXIF createDate data that seems to match the JSON's phototaketime date.

[TheLastGimbus]

No problem man 😅😅 good to know your photos are good

[palijn]

As a followup, the assumption that for every file that misses EXIF date information there would be a corresponding json file was…wrong.

Okay, running... searching for everything in input folder...
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There are corresponding un-modifiéd files in the same original folders, so I'll try to manually touch the ALL_PHOTOS/date-unknown files. Unless you've got a better, faster suggestion.

[TheLastGimbus]

those are "extras" - modified/effects photos - they often have jsons without the -modified suffix - look https://github.com/TheLastGimbus/GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper/blob/master/lib/extras.dart

we can just add your french "-modifié" and handle them as well :rocket:

[palijn]

As a followup, the assumption that for every file that misses EXIF date information there would be a corresponding json file was…wrong.

Okay, running... searching for everything in input folder...
Finding duplicates...
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Can't get date on Takeout/Google Photos/Photos from 2015/IMG-20150125-WA0000-modifié.jpg
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Can't get date on Takeout/Google Photos/Photos from 2015/Constat amiable 17-01-2014 Recto-modifié.jpg

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There are corresponding un-modifiéd files in the same original folders, so I'll try to manually touch the ALL_PHOTOS/date-unknown files. Unless you've got a better, faster suggestion.

For the record, it involves the following steps for each file F-modifié.jpg in date-unknown : (CWD : gpth-output folder) find . -name F\* -ls touch -r ALL_PHOTOS/yearfound/monthfound/F.jpg ALL_PHOTOS/date-unknown/F-modifié.jpg mv ALL_PHOTOS/date-unknown/F-modifié.jpg ALL_PHOTOS/yearfound/monthfound/

[palijn]

we can just add your french "-modifié" and handle them as well 🚀

That would be great for my next Takeout ! :)

[TheLastGimbus]

here, grab the nightly with those added :)

https://github.com/TheLastGimbus/GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper/actions/runs/4585888986

:o turned out i had a function for matching something-edited.jpg in any language, but it didn't support accent characters because of regex :laughing: - added this in a0dd2842

now check it out :) - https://github.com/TheLastGimbus/GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper/actions/runs/4588597120

[TheLastGimbus]

@dburner looking at this, for now, i don't thing im gonna touch the exifs myself, sorry :( - but, with the json album solution, i think you (or even me) could easily write a script that would do that - for example in python, where there actually are some good exif libraries :eyes:

[dburner]

Oke thanks for the help.

But I do agree with @palijn, if the process takes some time I dont really care. Maybe you can add this feature as an opt-in, maybe add an argument --add-tags. I think this feature would fit the GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper project.

[TheLastGimbus]

I agree and would love to add it, but there's nothing good for exif for Dart

Maybe i can make some scripts/ folder with stuff like that...

[dburner]

Ok, maybe I could help out with a C# plugin that you could call as an opt in (either separate app or dynamic library).

You mentioned earier that the album information is present in the json files. I can not find any json that specifies if an image is in a particular album or not. Can you point it out for me ?

Thanks.

[TheLastGimbus]

the json file that gpth makes with --albums json option

[dburner]

Ooooo I thought google made a json that specified albums. Does GooglePhotosTakeoutHelper need a full google photos export to output this?

[TheLastGimbus]

Thanks to latest updates, no :partying_face: - gpth can process whatever you give it - if you export just year folders, it will give you "one big folder", and if you give just the albums, it should handle them just as nice :+1:

[TheLastGimbus]

Looking at this again...

a photo that i've added tags to from Synology Photos:

huh - at first i thought that this is synology's way for albums, but now i understand that this are just some tags that you added...

as such, i don't see much benefit in doing this :shrug:

at least for now where exifs are still no-no - so closing this for now...