Features

23 November 2011

General Features

the application can handle very large sets of media files
data gets saved in a relational database (Derby database by default). Therefore its possible to access and use SQL
generation of thumbnails
simple integrated picture viewer. Movies are viewed via external player (e.g. VLC)
Multi Project Support

files can be tagged
Tags can be structured in trees
Tags could be "tagged" by so called metatags. Means its possible to put on a "orthogonal" tag structure.
Comments, Titles and Ratings could be added to each File
own defined attributes could be added to media files, to tags and metatags
extraction of exif data. exif data can be used in filter expressions and in grouping expressions
Filterfunction (special Filtersyntax to filter by attributes)
Group By functions to produce grouped views of the material (by predefined attributes or by user defined groupings defined via a Grouping syntax). Multiple groupings are possible.
aggregate functions are possible in groupings; "having" clause to filter by aggregated values

Duplicates are identified by a checksum (CRC32).
Group By View to display the duplicates
Easy deletion of duplicates
View filter for duplicates (to remove the duplicates just in the view)
View filter for duplicates which are created by groupings : (due to multiple assignments to different groups)

Comparison function between different myjaphoo databases (mainly to find out duplicates)

GUI Layout can be adjusted and different layouts can be saved in so called Perspectives
creation of Bookmarks (consist of Filter and group by)
Undo-Function for all essential functions
Changelog for all essential functions
History Function to get back to previous views (and filters and groupings)
available in the following languages: english, german, french

function to copy media files (flat copy, by directory structure or by grouping structure)
export of meta information which could be imported into another myjaphoo database
Scripting in Groovy is possible. Macros can be added as UI commands to menus

in general the UI is combined by a tree view which contains the media files for navigating and a Detail View which shows Thumbs
Thumb-List Mode: shows the thumbs with all atributes assigned to a media file
regular Thumb View: shows thumbs in a grid
Stripe Thumb Mode: shows a stripe for each subcategory of the current selected node in the media tree; Stripes can be opened to show all thumbs of that stripe; all thumbs of a stripe can be selected via double click on the first column
you can open multiple UI Main Views which all have different Filters, Group By definitions and views on the data.