Game dev here and have over 3K pictures for concept art that I have to sort through. I have it organized through folders but this system is broken because no tagging. I tried DigiCam but after numerous attempts it crashes upon generating a database file with no exception messages. Since the developer doesn’t care about being transparent I don’t want to run into issues later on and fight with it so now I’m on the fence if I should develop my own and open-source it or keep fighting with it.
I was recommended to come here and ask because you all live and breathe this so really hoping to find something to get me back on track. FOSS only please!
I know you wanted FOSS, but I highly recommend you check out Eagle,
http://www.eagle.cool
(no affiliate link, I just love and recommend it)
Does everything, deduplication, tagging, smart folders, audio, fonts, video, gifs, text files, filters, mass download images with browser plugin, screenshots, clipboard,
Super fast, on SSD loads 80k images in a few seconds after the initial import (which takes a bit of time).
30 day free trial, $30 lifetime license after. Worth every dollar.
A few other redditors wanted FOSS, they reluctantly tried Eagle for free, then bought a license before the trial period was even over.
In 4.0 they will add 3D File format support: (https://eagle.cool/blog/post/4.0-beta)
“For those engaged in 3D modeling and design, we’ve included support for 3D file formats such as 3ds, 3mf, dae, ifc, ply, stl, and glb. This expansion enables you to work with a more diverse range of 3D content seamlessly.”
They have a roadmap up: https://trello.com/b/LSsVep1d/eagle-development-roadmap
Try it out, even if it’s not FOSS, if you don’t like it, you can come back after the free trial and tell me I told you so…
Eagle hit me with an error that they can’t process in an import >15 directory hierarchies so that was an instant uninstall. Sadly. It looked quite promising.