My partner and I have accumulated a lot of memes and a lot of family photos over the years. I would like to host these so they are accessible via various devices. I’m doing the memes first and once I figure out the software better I’ll move on to vacation photos. I had no problem getting Immich and Photoprism up and running. Both are very impressive programs, but both also are missing the ability to search/filter/sort by star rating. A lot of my memes and vacation photos are rated in their metadata as I never delete anything, I just rate the worthwhile ones higher so I can filter the junk out if we’re showing someone the album. My visitors don’t need to see all 10 distant dolphin pictures, just the good one where it’s jumping out of the water. :D
Immich sees and can edit star ratings, though there is no search/filter/sort functionality and Photoprism doesn’t seem to work with star ratings at all and uses the star the way Immich and Google photos use the heart.
My question is this:
Can anyone recommend a hosted alternative that implements star ratings completely and has an app or built in web server making it usable on desktop Linux, iOS, and Google-free GrapheneOS? It looks like Immich is slowly moving this direction and I can already see that this will be the best long term solution, at least for the family photos, but I want to set up something in the short term, especially since I have no idea what their feature timelines look like or how accurate they are.
Immich can search by star rating, but you need to enable the feature as it’s not enabled by default. Go to Account Settings / Features / Star Rating.
After that, it appears in your search options/filters
Seems you can search by rating in immich: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/11777
Though you can’t use greater than, less than, etc., or sort by rating.
If you’re willing to use something designed for porn, you can use stash: https://github.com/stashapp/stash It can definitely do those, though I’m not sure if it imports existing metadata. You can probably script that. It doesn’t scream “this is for porn” in its interface, either, you might not even notice in brief use. The most sexual thing in its interface is two metadata labels it has, “last O at” and “O count”.
I’m aware of Stash. I wouldn’t have thought of it and that might actually be a good solution. I’ll spin up a copy and see if it’ll work. Thanks for the suggestion. :)
