topic Re: Ambient mode wont display all my photos in Streaming

Ambient mode wont display all my photos

Crashe — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 06:14:53 GMT

I'm sure everyone else has the same issue but why is it that it the chromecast won't show more than a few photos at all. Sick of seeing the same photos again and again when there are hundreds.

Re: Ambient mode wont display all my photos

djtetei — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 10:08:01 GMT

It does that because it had "a mind if his own", so to speak, making its own selection based on various parameters, like exposure, quality, framing, etc.

Re: Ambient mode wont display all my photos

cgtvdude — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 02:44:48 GMT

I assume you have set the album to the "Personal Photo Curation" to LIVE ALBUMS ONLY. In theory, this means Google shouldn't do any photo selection unless you have an auto populating album.

IN REALITY, it doesn't work this way and there seems to be no way to fix it. I have an album I manually add to myself and my favorites album. If I select them both, Google only displays my favorites - not a single photo in the other album with 600 pictures. And even if I just select the other album by itself, I see the same photo multiple times a day.

Not sure what is going on with their algorithm, but messed up.

Re: Ambient mode wont display all my photos

Jeran — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 18:32:22 GMT

Hey there,

Did you have any more questions or need any additional help? If not, I'll go ahead and lock up this thread in 24 hours.

Just checking up,
Jeran

Re: Ambient mode wont display all my photos

Jeran — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 18:34:14 GMT

Hey there!

We haven't heard back from Crashe, and it's been a few days, so I'm locking the thread. As always, feel free to make a new thread if you have any more questions or concerns.

Thank you for your help, djtetei and cgtvdude!

Best regards,
Jeran