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How does this compare to PhotoStructure[0]? [0]: https://photostructure.com/about/introducing-photostructure/ https://photostructure.com/about/introducing-phot

How does this compare to PhotoStructure[0]? [0]: https://photostructure.com/about/introducing-photostructure/ https://photostructure.com/about/introducing-photostructure/

AlexITC 6y ago
My app is a quite smaller subset of what PhotoStructure seems to provide. Unfortunately, I can't try it, but I believe that it can certainly replace my app, and I wouldn't have built it if PhotoStructure works as it promises. In fact, my first idea was to build an app like that, with a nice UI, but it's simply too much effort, and I didn't had the required amount, I just needed something that worked for my use case to actually get my photo album. The main difference right now is that you can use my app, and I don't know when PhotoStructure will be available, but I already signed up to the beta list. Thanks for sharing.
- mceachen 6y ago
  Why can't you try it? You're certainly welcome to! Beta users get installation instructions emailed to them automatically as soon as they sign up. If you didn't receive that email, email me at hello@photostructure.com or send me a chat on the website, and I'll send you the link.
  - AlexITC 6y ago
    Apparently signing up was enough to get the download link (which I wasn't expecting), I'll try it later, and let you know. Thanks.
mceachen 6y ago
Many things are different. * This tool is designed to do one task, once: move photos from one directory structure, into another directory structure. It has no state persistence, so if you ask it to reorganize twice, it has to redo prior work, like recompute file SHAs. * PhotoStructure is designed to be long-running service, and stores state persistently in a library database[0]. This enables efficient incremental imports, and does so automatically (say, when SyncThing or Resilio Sync copies photos into your NAS). * PhotoStructure has a web-based UI to browse and interact with the photos and videos in your library. This tool has no UI other than command line. * PhotoStructure doesn't move files[1] out of an abundance of caution. It copies novel SHAs into a new hierarchy. There are extensive tools[2] to do subsequent source file cleanup, if you want. * PhotoStructure handles videos and raw images. * PhotoStructure detects and skips over images and videos that are corrupt (either through bad backups or bit rot). * PhotoStructure looks for the captured-at from > 10 different source tags (using heuristics proven over several thousand different make and model cameras), including Lightroom XMP, MIE, and Google Takeout .json sidecars. * For files with missing/stripped metadata, PhotoStructure interpolates captured-at using sibling files (if the siblings are considered "close enough," due to matching make/model and similar ctime/mtime). * This tool is using the Metadata Extractor (which a previous version of PhotoStructure used, when it used a JVM). PhotoStructure uses ExifTool, which considered the "gold standard" for reading metadata. ME works in many cases, but ExifTool works in more cases. * PhotoStructure uses a job queue for imports, automatically multi-threads based on the host machine's RAM and CPU metrics, and "renices" the processes to ensure your system is still usable even during imports. If there are only a handful of images to parse, a job queue is totally over-engineering. When there are many days worth of images to parse, and the process can get "hung" (even with process and read timeouts) due to OS hiccups, having a persistent work queue means the difference between supporting ~10k assets, and several million assets. * PhotoStructure doesn't just de-dupe based on SHA: it also can gather together "variations" of a single image or video, using metadata comparison, rotation-invariant Lab* image hashes, and dominant color correlation[3] [0] https://photostructure.com/faq/library/ https://photostructure.com/faq/library/ [1] https://photostructure.com/faq/why-doesnt-photostructure-move-original-files/ https://photostructure.com/faq/why-doesnt-photostructure-mov... [2] https://photostructure.com/server/tools/#show-me-all-the-duplicate-variant-filenames-for-each-asset https://photostructure.com/server/tools/#show-me-all-the-dup... [3] https://photostructure.com/faq/what-do-you-mean-by-dedupe/ https://photostructure.com/faq/what-do-you-mean-by-dedupe/

How does this compare to PhotoStructure[0]? [0]: https://photostructure.com/about/introducing-photostructure/ https://photostructure.com/about/introducing-photostructure/

AlexITC 6y ago

My app is a quite smaller subset of what PhotoStructure seems to provide. Unfortunately, I can't try it, but I believe that it can certainly replace my app, and I wouldn't have built it if PhotoStructure works as it promises. In fact, my first idea was to build an app like that, with a nice UI, but it's simply too much effort, and I didn't had the required amount, I just needed something that worked for my use case to actually get my photo album. The main difference right now is that you can use my app, and I don't know when PhotoStructure will be available, but I already signed up to the beta list. Thanks for sharing.

mceachen 6y ago
Why can't you try it? You're certainly welcome to! Beta users get installation instructions emailed to them automatically as soon as they sign up. If you didn't receive that email, email me at hello@photostructure.com or send me a chat on the website, and I'll send you the link.
- AlexITC 6y ago
  Apparently signing up was enough to get the download link (which I wasn't expecting), I'll try it later, and let you know. Thanks.

mceachen 6y ago

Many things are different. * This tool is designed to do one task, once: move photos from one directory structure, into another directory structure. It has no state persistence, so if you ask it to reorganize twice, it has to redo prior work, like recompute file SHAs. * PhotoStructure is designed to be long-running service, and stores state persistently in a library database[0]. This enables efficient incremental imports, and does so automatically (say, when SyncThing or Resilio Sync copies photos into your NAS). * PhotoStructure has a web-based UI to browse and interact with the photos and videos in your library. This tool has no UI other than command line. * PhotoStructure doesn't move files[1] out of an abundance of caution. It copies novel SHAs into a new hierarchy. There are extensive tools[2] to do subsequent source file cleanup, if you want. * PhotoStructure handles videos and raw images. * PhotoStructure detects and skips over images and videos that are corrupt (either through bad backups or bit rot). * PhotoStructure looks for the captured-at from > 10 different source tags (using heuristics proven over several thousand different make and model cameras), including Lightroom XMP, MIE, and Google Takeout .json sidecars. * For files with missing/stripped metadata, PhotoStructure interpolates captured-at using sibling files (if the siblings are considered "close enough," due to matching make/model and similar ctime/mtime). * This tool is using the Metadata Extractor (which a previous version of PhotoStructure used, when it used a JVM). PhotoStructure uses ExifTool, which considered the "gold standard" for reading metadata. ME works in many cases, but ExifTool works in more cases. * PhotoStructure uses a job queue for imports, automatically multi-threads based on the host machine's RAM and CPU metrics, and "renices" the processes to ensure your system is still usable even during imports. If there are only a handful of images to parse, a job queue is totally over-engineering. When there are many days worth of images to parse, and the process can get "hung" (even with process and read timeouts) due to OS hiccups, having a persistent work queue means the difference between supporting ~10k assets, and several million assets. * PhotoStructure doesn't just de-dupe based on SHA: it also can gather together "variations" of a single image or video, using metadata comparison, rotation-invariant Lab* image hashes, and dominant color correlation[3] [0] https://photostructure.com/faq/library/ https://photostructure.com/faq/library/ [1] https://photostructure.com/faq/why-doesnt-photostructure-move-original-files/ https://photostructure.com/faq/why-doesnt-photostructure-mov... [2] https://photostructure.com/server/tools/#show-me-all-the-duplicate-variant-filenames-for-each-asset https://photostructure.com/server/tools/#show-me-all-the-dup... [3] https://photostructure.com/faq/what-do-you-mean-by-dedupe/ https://photostructure.com/faq/what-do-you-mean-by-dedupe/