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So here's my situation. I've been looking for a long time for a self-hosted photo library. I have pretty low requirements: I just want it to be able to show the videos and images I have stored on my NAS in a random order, and to support a slideshow of those files, also in a random order.

I thought I had finally found what I was looking for with PiGallery2 -- it supports a hidden file that triggers the random order sorting -- but it's not stable. It works for a while and then takes ages and ages to refresh the album.

Synology Photos would have been perfect, but it can't randomize!

Any suggestions? I'm looking to host this on Debian.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Solving it the unix way:

ls -1 | sort -R | sxiv -f -s f -S 5 -

So it's ls -1 to list the content of current directory (presumably where your pictures are), with one file per line, so we can then pipe it to sort, with the -R option to sort randomly, then piping the result to sxiv, a lightweight image viewer available on most distro (I just checked, it's available on Debian). For its options : -f means it's fullscreen, -s f makes it scale to fit the image on screen as well as possible, -S 5 tells it to start in slideshow mode and change picture every 5 seconds, and - is to tell it to take the files list from stdin (thus from the ls and sort commands).

This won't work for videos, though, only pictures.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

beautiful solution

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably nobody's first guess, but Plex can do this, no problem. It's quietly robust.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've actually used Plex for this before, but I was looking for something simpler. Good call, though!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Take a look at Photostructure... I think that will meet your requirements!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Looks good, here is a link for everyone Photostructure

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

you can use qiv , it's in the repos

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you want slideshow on android device, there is an app on gstore called photocloud. It can play from shared folder or nextcloud for example. Looks outdated but it has features you want. There is a downside tho

Pricing

Pricing: free version shows a “please purchase” images once a while during the slideshow. There is an in-app payment which removes these images. Another payment unlocks the “Daydream” functionality; this only works on Android 4.2 and higher, don’t purchase if you have Android 4.1 or lower.

Not exactly what you asked but it might be usefull

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Photoprism can do random slideshow in the library/browse?order=random endpoint

https://github.com/photoprism/photoprism/commit/47defc861c17ca1348eb0193b9ea84ce2708f228

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You didn’t say anything about price, so I’m going to offer Chevereto.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sadly, this doesn't appear to have a slide show feature.

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