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Google Photos just updated to the new app on my phone.
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May 28, 2015 21:04
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Red Warrior posted:Google Photos just updated to the new app on my phone. Same, app is nice and a lot more intuitive except that it appears that it's trying to re-upload all my photos which is very infuriating.
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May 28, 2015 21:08
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So that new thing in Photos where it finds all the photos of your kid no matter their age? It works.
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May 28, 2015 21:19
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Thermopyle posted:So that new thing in Photos where it finds all the photos of your kid no matter their age? It mostly did for me, it's given me two different groups of photos for my 16-month old. Both cover a range of ages, strangely one group seems to be mostly pictures taken out of state. Hopefully there will be a way on the web interface or something to merge or edit the automatically found groups?
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May 28, 2015 21:36
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Oh also, it didn't try to re-upload all my photos. Maybe because I always uploaded full resolution.
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May 28, 2015 21:44
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What was Google Photos before? I just got it. Its uploading all of my images. I already had images backing up via Google+. Is this the same? Does Google care what its apps do in relation to each other? Should I disable Google+ auto backup?
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May 28, 2015 21:56
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FogHelmut posted:What was Google Photos before? I just got it. Its uploading all of my images. I already had images backing up via Google+. Is this the same? Does Google care what its apps do in relation to each other? Should I disable Google+ auto backup? This replaced the Google+ Photos app.
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May 28, 2015 21:59
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Just tried the face search feature of the new photos and holy poo poo. I have a bunch of photos with my grandmother in them and it found them, fine, great, but it also found a photo that I took of a photo of my grandmother on her wedding day. That's at least a 50 year age gap and it ID'd her. 
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May 28, 2015 22:05
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Nintendo Kid posted:Gonna go out on a limb and say: media players typically won't let you bookmark your place in a plain audio format, in a way that you can return to it days later as opposed to just being paused and restarted the same day. Or control playback speed. There's enough overlap between the two functions that having an app that does both is totally understandable. I wouldn't necessarily expect it to be a feature though. Grim Up North posted:Or a dedicated Audiobook player even. I like Listen. I used Smart Audiobook Player to power through some audiobooks recently and I liked it a lot.
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May 28, 2015 22:08
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Ca I use Google Photos and remove Gallery altogether?
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May 28, 2015 22:16
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Inbox updated to include a swipe-to-delete option, an undo-send option and to integrate reminders with Keep. A Good Update. e: some KitKat design still sneaking into the new Photos app 
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May 28, 2015 22:17
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FogHelmut posted:What was Google Photos before? I just got it. Its uploading all of my images. I already had images backing up via Google+. Is this the same? Does Google care what its apps do in relation to each other? Should I disable Google+ auto backup? If you had Google+ you already had a Photos app that linked into the G+ Photos. G+ Photos app will update to the new Google Photos app which isn't tied to G+ in any way. There isn't a separate G+ Auto Backup feature any more. noirstronaut posted:Ca I use Google Photos and remove Gallery altogether? Yes.
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May 28, 2015 22:22
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Wow, I am really impressed with both the facial recognition and the pinch-to-zoom features of the new Photos app. This is a really nice app.
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May 29, 2015 01:03
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Mine doesn't seem to do facial recognition. How do I turn that on
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May 29, 2015 02:11
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Dr. Video Games 0050 posted:Mine doesn't seem to do facial recognition. How do I turn that on Are you sure you got the new app and aren't just using the old Photos app? The way you turn it on seems to be: have photos with faces.
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May 29, 2015 02:24
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Yep. Have the new one. Weird. Thermopyle posted:Are you sure you got the new app and aren't just using the old Photos app? It says not available in all countries. I'm Canadian. Any other Canadians have face recognition?
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May 29, 2015 02:34
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Dr. Video Games 0050 posted:Yep. Have the new one. Weird. Google doesn't really like Canada so you're more than likely just out of luck.
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May 29, 2015 02:45
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Google has trouble picking out Canadian faces.
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May 29, 2015 03:04
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Canadian faces are too fat and cause a buffer overrun error.
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May 29, 2015 03:25
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Whizbang posted:Canadian faces are too fat and cause a butter overrun error. E: I have no pictures of horses on my phone, so Google picked out like a half dozen pictures of grassland ruminants I took at the zoo, plus a parrot, one of my cats laying on a windsill, and an agent from the matrix movie doing that dodgy poo poo  Managed to get this into the dogs category  
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May 29, 2015 03:28
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Canada has privacy laws affecting Google services. For example, we couldn't get Street View until they blurred out faces and license plates.
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May 29, 2015 03:48
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I don't appear to have it in the UK, just get places and things
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May 29, 2015 12:06
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Ugh, I hate to ask for a music player recommendation, but could you please assist? All I want to do is set up an agent on my PC which will monitor a few folders that I tell it, and then I want to be able to access those folders from the Android device. I am having a lot of trouble doing this because programs are doing too much or doing it wrong. I do want: it to use folder.jpg for the album art. it to simply stream music from PC to phone. it to monitor the folder for changes, or probably more accurate, to be browsing the folder when I'm browsing (ie, don't cache anything) I don't want: it to scrape anything from the internet. to require a 4.95 purchase to stream my own music from 30 feet away plex. to cache information (Google Music becomes nearly unusable when you take a 45,000 song library and then click "downloaded only"). I really just want a simple way to browse my mp3 library from any device on Wifi, is there anything that is going to make me happy? I realize I am asking for fractionally more than "just map over from any file browser and play the song you want", but I'd like an updating library, album art, genres from the id3 tags. I just don't want any scraping or caching, just let me configure everything exactly how I want it on the PC, then play it on the phone or tablet as well. MC Fruit Stripe fucked around with this message at 12:15 on May 29, 2015 |
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May 29, 2015 12:10
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Red Warrior posted:Hopefully there will be a way on the web interface or something to merge or edit the automatically found groups? Also I don't have the Faces thing (in the UK), just Places and Things. US-only I guess  .
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May 29, 2015 12:14
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Tunga posted:In one of the Coffee with a Googler chats between sessions they spoke to the guy who did the Photos section in the keynote and he said that this is already possible, specifically mentioning that they don't always get faces and thing perfectly and that you can correct it when that happens. I can't see such an option anywhere right now but I guess it's coming pretty soon. The feature I wish they'd add is a way to detect duplicates. I don't even mean to compare photos, I mean literal duplicate uploads of identical files.
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May 29, 2015 12:26
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LastInLine posted:I mean literal duplicate uploads of identical files. Well, it looks like they finally fixed the bug where photos taken within the Hangouts app would show up twice, so hopefully that won't happen anymore. Also, it looks like the Photos website got the same overhaul that the app did.
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May 29, 2015 12:33
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Ugh, I hate to ask for a music player recommendation, but could you please assist? All I want to do is set up an agent on my PC which will monitor a few folders that I tell it, and then I want to be able to access those folders from the Android device. I am having a lot of trouble doing this because programs are doing too much or doing it wrong. Maybe give http://subsonic.org a look? I use the caching feature (for subway listening) but it can definitely be disabled. It doesn't scrape, and it definitely uses folder.jpg for album art (that's how my collection is sorted). By default it will transcode files to be more suitable for mobile data streaming, but that can also be disabled.
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May 29, 2015 12:34
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Vykk.Draygo posted:Wow, I am really impressed with both the facial recognition and the pinch-to-zoom features of the new Photos app. This is a really nice app. Agreed, this is super nice.
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May 29, 2015 13:03
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Google Photos uploaded fine for most of the photos on my and my wife's phones, but it seems its doing a lovely job of determining the correct date for older photos that weren't taken on other android phones. I would think that it would try to parse out the date the photo was taken by either photo name or the created date in the file info, but nope. Got a bunch of stuff going back anywhere from 1 to 4 years ago showing up in May 2015. It's going to be a pain in the rear end to edit unless the program goes through them again and updates it.
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May 29, 2015 13:27
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Vykk.Draygo posted:Well, it looks like they finally fixed the bug where photos taken within the Hangouts app would show up twice, so hopefully that won't happen anymore. The problem is what someone in the other thread mentioned. Let's say you've got a shitload of photos completely unorganized and spread across multiple drives and cards. You can't upload everything and then get the dupes out later. It's just a bizarre omission for what would seem to be an easy tool to implement. I should mention the only reason I care about this is one of my dad's friends got cryptolockered and lost everything. I set them up with a Chromebox since all they do are take photos and browse the internet and they love it. The only problem they've encountered are duplicates being uploaded when they come across an old SD card that might have photos they want to recover. I did some research and it seems like unless you want to download everything and use applications to sanitize your library you can then delete and reupload but nobody offers an easy way to clean out duplicate photos. Either way a nice update.
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May 29, 2015 13:35
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You guys talking about the facial recognition got me to go check it out for myself. I downloaded the Photos app and was expecting to see boxes around faces when looking at the picture but that isn't the case. Was there something I need to do or somewhere in particular I need to go to turn it on?
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May 29, 2015 14:02
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rotaryfun posted:You guys talking about the facial recognition got me to go check it out for myself. I downloaded the Photos app and was expecting to see boxes around faces when looking at the picture but that isn't the case. Was there something I need to do or somewhere in particular I need to go to turn it on?
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May 29, 2015 14:04
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teethgrinder posted:Maybe give http://subsonic.org a look? I use the caching feature (for subway listening) but it can definitely be disabled. It doesn't scrape, and it definitely uses folder.jpg for album art (that's how my collection is sorted).
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May 29, 2015 14:13
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So even on the web interface it doesn't seem like there is any way to tell Google Photos that what it thinks are two separate people are actually one person. Hopefully that is coming.
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May 29, 2015 14:19
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:I know this is petty but I'm just shocked I can't do this for free. I run foobar, winamp and XBMC for various needs, and they all do exactly what I want, for not a penny. Even if it's a dollar, I'm just surprised I'm going to have to buy an app to find out it may not even be what I want. Still, you can install the server for free, pay your $1, and quickly see if it works for you. Grab the refund if not.
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May 29, 2015 14:19
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I checked out the Photos app, but, despite it being nice, didn't see a reason to keep it. I'm just going to stick with QuickPic for browsing them and G+ to auto backup. Photos also said it was uploading 650+ photos, when everything that I want backed up is already backed up. I wasn't worried about data overages or cloud storage, but I don't want a poo poo load of duplicates.
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May 29, 2015 14:21
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teethgrinder posted:Yeah... In addition, the new "premium" pricing pisses me off, but the free version probably does what you want. (I have some old grandfathered version where I don't pay a monthly fee. The whole point was I didn't want to pay an additional fee just for "mobile streaming" like Rdio/Spotify make you.)
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May 29, 2015 14:23
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Tunga posted:Tap on the Search bar, you should see automatically created categories for People, Places and Things. It's all automated, no tagging, no boxes, it just takes all your photos and groups them based on who is in them. Except if you don't live the US you won't see People. Woooow this is really powerful. My grandmother was one of the people it had a group for so I selected it. Right off the bat I thought to myself, whelp this doesn't work. There was a photo of my kids that I took and thought it shouldn't be in there. Little did I know, waaay in the background was my grandmother. Really impressive.
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May 29, 2015 14:40
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Is everyone who is getting mass reuploads sure you haven't just selected the original quality option? It wasn't uploading at original size with the old G+ method, so it's probably just uploading better quality ones
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May 29, 2015 14:42
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Skarsnik posted:Is everyone who is getting mass reuploads sure you haven't just selected the original quality option? Just checked in G+ and, yes, I have Original selected (98% sure I always have. Unlimited data and 100GB of cloud storage means not being worried about photo size). And I know I selected Original when I had Photos installed.
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May 29, 2015 14:53
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