Based on our record, Emby should be more popular than TMSU. It has been mentiond 58 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I used to use Plex until I found Emby. I find Emby easier to use and it does the same thing. Just putting this here as a fourth option for OP. :). Source: 6 months ago
I use https://emby.media along with private trackers and Usenet. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago
You can find it here! I have both installed, but I generally keep EMBY turned off until I want to play around with it. You can have both running at once and both accessing the same folders. You can check it out for free. Source: 11 months ago
Emby: Offers premium features with some behind a membership. Source: 11 months ago
I went with Emby, personally. Plex, Jellyfin, etc are all good choices too! :). Source: 11 months ago
You may want to try TagSpaces https://www.tagspaces.org/ or TMSU https://tmsu.org/ which provide mechanisms for managing tags of arbitrary files (not only EXIF or ID3 ones). - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago
The author of TMSU left a sibling comment to yours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37507343 > TMSU is a tool for tagging your files. It provides a simple command-line tool for applying tags and a virtual filesystem so that you can get a tag-based view of your files from within any other program. > TMSU does not alter your files in any way: they remain unchanged on disk, or on the network, wherever you put... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago
And what led me to build [TMSU](https://tmsu.org/). - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago
I haven't used this myself, but I saw a recent announcement here about https://github.com/vifon/tmsu.el#features by /u/vifon which lets you tag files (with https://tmsu.org/ ) from dired, perhaps it would be possible to add features on top of that to colour based on tags? (e.g. Tagging "red" would colour it red). Source: 11 months ago
The TMSU Nautilus Extension seems to require you to install the command-line tool TMSU (a tool to tag files). Source: over 1 year ago
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