Collection organizer software

[babe hunter]

Hi all,

I am a software developer and also a big fan of collecting, mostly porn
I often come across problems, when trying to organize the movies, photos, etc. So I have an idea of a program, which would allow to catalog porn collection in a suitable way, so the user would be able to access required photo or movie scene very quickly. Let's say that you have your favourite actress or some fetish scene. You tag the scene with some keyword, such as "big tits". Then you are able to get to that particular scene without big effort, even if you tagged, say 20 movies like that. Or you can do the same with photos - entering one keyword would give you the list of tagged files. Just like Windows search feature but with greater possibilities.
The thing is, that to create a good software, developer must know "use cases" for the software. So I would like to ask you for help and provide some feedback on features, you find most important.

[Xxphd]

Such a program already exists:

http://anonym.to/?http://www.tri-edr...ricatalog.html

[hos]

what i miss with such programs is a stable performance. for my image galleries i use ACDSee, with a deep category system to organize separated parts like profile images, gallery and movie preview pics (separated = selected images i don't remove from my collection even after a collection was backed up. my gallery and movie collection is entirely disconnected from my model collection). problem for this and all other software i've checked is that it wents slower and slower the bigger your collection gets.

while i think i can live with a slower performance when it comes to searching, i think that it's not necessary that also the recording of new items is affected (especially category tagging). the ACDSee database meanwhile is a pita, it can take up to 3 seconds before i am able to assign the next category to single/multiple image(s).

>> edit: meanwhile i've figured out how to fix this problem, which was based on some issues with the DB. I've used the function to embed all acdsee data into my images, then I've deleted my ACDSee DB and recreated it from the scratch by cataloging files from my HD - this way embedded data from images will be written to the ACDSee DB. after this process, which took multiple hours, my ACDSee DB was ultra-quick again - with ~100.000 catalogued images. since i am used to the option of embedded metadata. it has many advantages while you don't have to be afraid that one day your DB crashs without being able to restore it.


what i would love to see is a database which offers a good api you can call from outside the software itself (to build own frontends which takes advantage of the data you've added to the database), wide import/export options and finally a system which doesn't slow down. I've written a small solution myself via PHP (+MySQL DB) so i know that this is possible. sure the software should also offer standards like previews, imageviews, thumbnails, contact sheet creation, basic image modifications like cropping/resizing/converting and metatag-injection.

[babe hunter]

@Xxphd: Tri-CATALOG is not exactly what I meant. Sure it has features of cataloging but lacks some other feats, such as creating caps from a movie (overview or thumbs).
@hos: yes, performance is definatelly a wanted thing, especially if you deal with lots of data. API is a good idea too, but there must be someone who would use it

[JoeScylla]

Sorry for reanimating a dead thread; registered to help out. You should give ThumbsPlus a try (http://www.cerious.com/). I organize 1.5 million images with ThumbsPlus using a SQLite database with good performance (database size is 6.5GB). I tried alot of DAM software and ThumbsPlus was the only one able to handle that many files (and have a ok interface).

Edit: But don't use version 8 of ThumpsPlus if you can avoid it because version 8 is pretty crappy. Use version 7 or version 9 beta.

[Rommelbommel]

Any image cataloguing software is useless without face recognition.

[JoeScylla]

Originally Posted by Rommelbommel

Any image cataloguing software is useless without face recognition.

May i ask for what purpose you require face recognition?

[Rommelbommel]

Originally Posted by JoeScylla

May i ask for what purpose you require face recognition?

I'm late but: I'd rather have an automated tool going through my main porn images folder to find all the images corresponding to a model and move them into subfolders than going through the folder myself.

[milliem]

Originally Posted by JoeScylla

Sorry for reanimating a dead thread; registered to help out. You should give ThumbsPlus a try (http://www.cerious.com/). I organize 1.5 million images with ThumbsPlus using a SQLite database with good performance (database size is 6.5GB). I tried alot of DAM software and ThumbsPlus was the only one able to handle that many files (and have a ok interface).

Edit: But don't use version 8 of ThumpsPlus if you can avoid it because version 8 is pretty crappy. Use version 7 or version 9 beta.

This isn't free. It costs $40 (£26, 30 Euros). There is a trial version but it only lasts for 30 days. I don't know what happens on the 31st day because the website isn't very informative on this point so, unless you know different, I'm going to assume that the product will cease to work.

So on that basis your post is just straight forward spam.

[Bisleycat2002]

I've built a fairly large collection of photos and I've thought about categorising the photos by a whole set of (yet to be decided) categories so I can sort on demand i.e. I tick the categorie(s) I want and it finds photos I have that mtach that selection


What software does anyone recommend (Win7)?

Thanks in advance