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Snarglefarg:
Although Media Center has photo management, I started thinking about the popularity of online photo albums and it occurred to me that it would be amazing if MC along with the Media Server could be used publish photo albums. In a sense, the Media Server would become a web server but with the power of Media Center behind it, we could create dynamic photo albums automatically generated when the page is hit, based on various criteria and tags of the images.

I recently purchased a digital camera (Nikon Coolpix 4500) and would love to be able to share more pictures than I can with the limited space on my website. My provider only allows 100MB of space. Fine for a standard website, but not enough if you want to publish hundreds, or even thousands of pictures.

Hard drives are cheap and my local drive has plenty of space. Providing links from my site to the Media Server would allow me make all of my photos available to my friends, family and the casual browser.

Any thoughts?

nila:
For what your talking about to happen, u'd need to be running MC on the server.
I therefore presume your talking about making your computer the server.

In this case why not just set up apache, (pretty easy) and then set up the website normally yourself on your computer anyway?

Snarglefarg:

--- Quote ---For what your talking about to happen, u'd need to be running MC on the server.
I therefore presume your talking about making your computer the server.
--- End quote ---

Correct.


--- Quote ---In this case why not just set up apache, (pretty easy) and then set up the website normally yourself on your computer anyway?
--- End quote ---

It's not just a hard drive space issue or a server issue, but a content creation issue as well. There are a lot of tools that let you import pictures and then output static album pages.  I was looking for it to be a bit more dynamic, so if for instance I've got pictures of my family, adding more pictures to Media Center and tagging them as "Family" would automatically update the content of the album without having to regenerate pages.

nila:
Yeah,
I hear what your saying, I've been asking for this for ages myself. :)


I'm not too into the flat html page output we get out.

What u can do (dunno how good u are at programming, is export to XML, then use that to make your own site - it would depend on your programming skills though.

Wobbley:
I'm working on some ASP.NET stuff that does just what you're looking for (must run .NET), but obviously doesn't work with MC.  You have to be tunning IIS and .NET platform, but I'll share code w/ you when I am done, if you're interested.

Wobbley

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