[Feature]: Metadata Editor

[Nonobis]

Feature detail

Hello,

A metadata editor could be very cool feature, with update of metadata directly on file

For fixing date/time of files or gps coordinate etc ...

Platform

Web

[r3nor]

This would be great!

[panoti]

For this issue, I suggest some solutions:

1. Wrap native tools like exiftool, exiv2 by using childprocess to parse and write metadata.
   • Pros: so easy, best performance, always updated, support many file types.
   • Cons: heavily depend on perl (only with exiftool), install more binary packages (exiv2)
2. Wrap native libs like exiv2 by using node-gyp. Exiv2 also provide API so that other app can communicate to.
   • Pros: best performance, always updated, support many file types.
   • Cons: not easy to implement with node-gyp.
3. Transpile native libs like exiv2 to wasm.
   • Pros: best performance, always updated, support many file types.
   • Cons: pretty difficult to transpile C++ to wasm.
4. Using pure javascript lib but they're outdated like piexifjs.
   • Pros: so easy
   • Cons: outdated, lack of support, performance issues.

[JVT038]

Additionally, can you also add a feature for mass metadata editing?

I have thousands of videos and images from WhatsApp and they're all in IMG-YYYYMMDD-WA0001.JPG format, but don't have any exif data, so Immich automatically assumes they're taken on the file creation date (which in my case is March 2022). So there are currently a lot of images from 2017, 2019, 2020, etc. which are placed in March 2022, because they're from WhatsApp without exif data. I'm currently fixing this with the exiftool, which takes the filename and sets the exif data based on the filename, but could this be done in the web ui? I'm sure I'm not the only one uploading WhatsApp images to Immich

[r3nor]

I think that, following on what @JVT038 said, it would be a very good feature to fallback on filename timestamp (if available) when no metadata is found. Most images from phones or cameras contain the timestamp on the filename, so it would be a good fallback before using the modified date.

[jkaplon]

Might this also include a "Description" field?

gphotos has it in the metadata panel, and it's proven useful with pics of kid drawings (where there's no chance of success by an image classifier).

Hopefully this is a well-supported EXIF item and will be easy to add...but I don't want to be making scope-creep-assumptions.

[samip5]

The exif parsing is actually done with exiftool-vendored library now. :)