Feature request/suggestion: Enable recursive directory (Folder + all subfolders)

[Jeroen D.]

Hello,

(If this feature already exists, please forgive me, I have searched, but couldn't find it.)

TL;DR:

My suggestion is fairly simple (conceptually at least): When you choose "Gallery" as image source, you can either choose one folder or all folders. I think it would make things so much easier if you could select a folder and all it's subfolders. It gives you easy and complete control over which photo's to use in a slideshow and which to ignore without having to use a filter. It also makes it easy to have multiple slideshows (you can have a folder 'Slideshows' with subfolders 'Slideshow A', 'Slideshow B' etc). Perhaps you could make launcher shortcuts with the source folder as a parameter, so you could easily start different slideshows without have to change the settings?

My use case: I have an Android TV box with a large monitor that I use as a media hub/dashboard (Spotify, Netflix, slideshows, Home Assistant). I have a pretty large number of pictures (~25000) on my NAS server. These are synced with folders on the TV box (I used to connect directly to the NAS, but I found that the huge number of writes to the eMMC of the TV box drastically decreases the lifespan, so I switched to syncing). I could of course put all the picture in one folder, but it makes it a lot harder to keep things organized, and also both Windows and Android don't seem to handle these numbers of files in one folder very well (Windows would take forever because it would be too busy generating 25000 thumbnails). Filtering by date is not very useful for my use case. I also have a large number of animated GIFs on the device, so if I select all folders, those get picked up too, but as static images. I tried using filter feature to ignore those, but it doens't seem to be working.

[martin...@gmail.com]

Hi,

  I think that should be possible. Just open the browser of the gallery, then long-press a folder and select "root stream here". You can add multiple roots to a stream (a stream is a source of photos, e.g. Gallery) - slideshow will then show photos from all of root folders and also their subfolders.

Best regards, Martin

[Com Func]

I already use this and it works perfectly to an irregular tree depth of 4, so i think it will be fine with any size or shape of directory tree.

There's a bit of a pause when you restart the slideshow, as the app has to crawl the entire tree in order to get links it can shuffle for random ordering - but thats to be expected.

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[Com Func]

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I couldn't get it to work, neither for autostart on boot, nor for autostart on power connect. 

However, you can get this functionality by simply assigning Photocloud Slideshow as your screensaver! Then if you put the wait-till-sleep time low, like 5 or 10 seconds, the slideshow will quickly appear.

Com

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On Mon, 29 Jul 2024, 13:20 Michał Wygaś, <mii...@wp.pl> wrote:

Hi, is there a person who manage to autostart this app on tablet ? its not working for me on any device that  have 

Pozdrawiam / Best regards

MW