[Feature] Shared Albums in Search Results

[andrewgdunn]

Shared Albums in Search Results

With #2900 added it would be nice to include albums shared with the user in the search results.

I'd discussed a bit here, but my use case is that I would rather digest historic images into immich directly (rather than use the "read-only/existing library"). For my implementation I've got 500+ albums that my administrative user has added to the server and shared to the other users based on relevant participation.

Those users have to scroll through a lot of albums to find what they are looking for, search would be great.

Platform

• Server
• Web
• Mobile

[andrewgdunn]

I've moved over my family now and have closer to 1000 albums. I'd happily pay a bounty for this to be implemented!

[BenjaminDo]

That would be a cool feature ! Smart search is great for my usage but would be perfect if it works in all accessible phots

[greirson]

This would be great. I have about 1200 physical family photos that we're looking to scan and digitize. It would be amazing if we could share albums with family and have people already tagged for easy searching

[enfyrneaux]

I'll also add to the bounty.

I'm currently evaluating Immich for collaborative comments/categorization of about 40,000 family archive photos that have been scanned in from the past 80 years. Since multiple relatives are working on this project, all scanned photos have been bulk uploaded using a separate admin user - unfortunately the accounts of my relatives cannot leverage the smart search that I chose Immich for in the first place 😐

[xamino]

Would it be worth to split this into two tasks?

1. Search for a shared album: if you have a lot of shared albums at least allows you to jump to one that you know exists (by year, name, etc). Having this in the mobile app would be great because there is no way to find an album without a lot of scrolling (since you can't filter or sort the "Sharing" tab in any way).
2. Search that works across shared content, which some commenters here seem to be looking for, which is different if not even more useful, though likely harder to implement.

[bentrnr21]

Very nice good job

[DonRichie]

My use case is that I want to filter for only videos in a shared album, that I am not the owner of.
It has ~2000 files, which is so much, that I miss the videos when scrolling through.

[jeanius7]

I would love this to be a feature to be worked on! I have easily 12,000 pictures all organized by album. Being able to share some of these folders to my family and them being able to search would be a HUGE quality of life improvement to shared albums.

[haoenz]

Will this feature be added to the roadmap?

[miguelbrandao]

Just chiming in to say this feature would really be appreciated. I use Immich for two main purposes:

• as photo and video manager for myself (Google Photos/iCloud replacement);
• as a simple, centralized service for friends/family members to access and explore our memories.

Immich accomplishes the former better than any other solution I've found, but it's sorely lacking in the latter: because my friends/family members are just viewers of media I upload and manage, with no photos of their own, all their content is in the form of shared albuns.
Currently, this means they can't use the features that truly distinguish Immish:

• the timeline;
• the explore page;
• smart search;
• map;
• people;

And it is a shame, as the experience I have with my administration account (the owner of all files) is so superior to the experience a friend has, that one could mistake it for different software!

I'll definitely add to the bounty if anyone develops this!

[rmarkus]

I would also like to have this supported. We share family photos from a central "family" account; these are the by far the most images. To have the search available for each account would really be great. On the other hand we cannot just use "1 account" since the members have additionally their "own" photos that they don't want to share.