Media-specific content-addressed stores (ideally as overlays which refer to but don't change your directory structure or file organization) seem to be the way to go with this.
I think photoprism and photostructure don't really care about your directory structure or organization, but paperless(-ngx, or whatever is the most current iteration) is "notorious" for being opinionated about organization / not wanting to respect your organization.
I used camlistore/perkeep for photos for a while, but google photos has an absolutely killer feature of knowing who is in every picture, even accounting for age: although two of my boys who are 8 years apart look really similar at similar ages, it knows who is who. I don't know if it uses facial analysis or photo metadata or what, but it has never mistaken one for the other. I don't have a reasonable way of getting that tag information out of google photos (even though I'm paying for the service).
It might be time to revisit this, though.. I don't recall whether photostructure / photoprism try to do facial recognition, but even if they don't already, I bet they'll soon be roughly on par with google photos (or good enough that I can stop depending on google for this).
That's documents and photos / videos, what about music? For better or for worse, It's been at least a ~decade since I tried keeping my own music collection as files. Are there things these days like paperless / photoprism, a library system for music that has deeper integration with the content than just "files on disk"?
Depends a bit on the use case. For personal photos, mobile photos and the like, I use Google Photo as well. But it just isn't suitable for professional storage or sorting IMHO, tho the face recognition is certainly neat. The best I've came across was FotoStation, but it's many years since I worked with those sorta things.
I think photoprism and photostructure don't really care about your directory structure or organization, but paperless(-ngx, or whatever is the most current iteration) is "notorious" for being opinionated about organization / not wanting to respect your organization.
I used camlistore/perkeep for photos for a while, but google photos has an absolutely killer feature of knowing who is in every picture, even accounting for age: although two of my boys who are 8 years apart look really similar at similar ages, it knows who is who. I don't know if it uses facial analysis or photo metadata or what, but it has never mistaken one for the other. I don't have a reasonable way of getting that tag information out of google photos (even though I'm paying for the service).
It might be time to revisit this, though.. I don't recall whether photostructure / photoprism try to do facial recognition, but even if they don't already, I bet they'll soon be roughly on par with google photos (or good enough that I can stop depending on google for this).
That's documents and photos / videos, what about music? For better or for worse, It's been at least a ~decade since I tried keeping my own music collection as files. Are there things these days like paperless / photoprism, a library system for music that has deeper integration with the content than just "files on disk"?