Sidecar metadata - where will it appear?

[brownphotographic]

I am writing a tool to migrate a Flickr library to Immich. There are a lot of metadata fields that are not supported in the standard EXIF, so I am writing these fields to XMP sidecar

The documentation on sidecars is a little sparse, and does not contain any information about where the metadata will actually be shown in Immich (nor can I find anything about additional information in the documentation about additional fields).

I have imported via the Immich CLI and can see that the sidecars also got imported into the folder. I ran the jobs for Discover and Sync also but see nothing about these additional fields appearing in Immich.

Questions

1. Is there any documentation someone can point to that describes what format the additional metadata should be described as? Or some examples?
2. Does the Immich UI actually support the additional XMP metadata fields yet? I am specifically after the following: a) Display on the info tab b) allow fields to be searchable

https://immich.app/docs/features/xmp-sidecars

An example of a sidecar file I created from my script.

`
<x:xmpmeta xmlns:x="adobe:ns:meta/" x:xmptk="XMP Core 5.1.2">
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlns:photoshop="http://ns.adobe.com/photoshop/1.0/"
xmlns:xmp="http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/"
xmlns:lr="http://ns.adobe.com/lightroom/1.0/"
xmlns:flickr="http://flickr.com/schema/2024/01/">
<rdf:Description rdf:about="">

flickr:id54239280225</flickr:id>
flickr:photopagehttps://www.flickr.com/photos/202036170@N07/54239280225/</flickr:photopage>
flickr:originalhttps://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54239280225_07ece9f4b9_o.jpg</flickr:original>
flickr:viewCount6</flickr:viewCount>
flickr:favoriteCount1</flickr:favoriteCount>
flickr:commentCount1</flickr:commentCount>
flickr:tagCount13</flickr:tagCount>
flickr:noteCount0</flickr:noteCount>

    <!-- Privacy and Permissions -->
    <flickr:privacy>public</flickr:privacy>
    <flickr:commentPermissions>any flickr member</flickr:commentPermissions>
    <flickr:taggingPermissions>people you follow</flickr:taggingPermissions>
    <flickr:safety>safe</flickr:safety>

    <!-- Account Information -->
    <flickr:accountInfo rdf:parseType="Resource">
        <flickr:realName>Rob Brown</flickr:realName>
        <flickr:screenName>robbrown78</flickr:screenName>
        <flickr:joinDate>2024-12-31 17:25:09</flickr:joinDate>
        <flickr:profileUrl>https://www.flickr.com/people/202036170@N07/</flickr:profileUrl>
        <flickr:nsid>202036170@N07</flickr:nsid>
        <flickr:proUser>no</flickr:proUser>
    </flickr:accountInfo>

    <!-- Albums Information -->
    <flickr:albums>
    <rdf:Bag>
        <rdf:li rdf:parseType="Resource">
        <flickr:albumId>72177720322885851</flickr:albumId>
        <flickr:albumTitle>England</flickr:albumTitle>
        <flickr:albumUrl>https://www.flickr.com/photos/202036170@N07/sets/72177720322885851/</flickr:albumUrl>
        <flickr:albumDescription></flickr:albumDescription>
        <flickr:albumViewCount>0</flickr:albumViewCount>
        <flickr:albumCreated></flickr:albumCreated>
        <flickr:albumLastUpdated></flickr:albumLastUpdated>
        <flickr:albumPhotoCount>0</flickr:albumPhotoCount>
        </rdf:li><rdf:li rdf:parseType="Resource">
        <flickr:albumId>72177720322885677</flickr:albumId>
        <flickr:albumTitle>New England</flickr:albumTitle>
        <flickr:albumUrl>https://www.flickr.com/photos/202036170@N07/sets/72177720322885677/</flickr:albumUrl>
        <flickr:albumDescription></flickr:albumDescription>
        <flickr:albumViewCount>0</flickr:albumViewCount>
        <flickr:albumCreated></flickr:albumCreated>
        <flickr:albumLastUpdated></flickr:albumLastUpdated>
        <flickr:albumPhotoCount>0</flickr:albumPhotoCount>
        </rdf:li>
    </rdf:Bag>
    </flickr:albums>

    <!-- Comments -->
    <flickr:comments>
    <rdf:Bag>
        <rdf:li rdf:parseType="Resource">
        <flickr:commentId>72157720405892029</flickr:commentId>
        <flickr:commentDate>2025-01-01 05:29:38</flickr:commentDate>
        <flickr:commentUser>76848189@N00</flickr:commentUser>
        <flickr:commentText>Nice cows</flickr:commentText>
        </rdf:li>
    </rdf:Bag>
    </flickr:comments>

</rdf:Description>
</rdf:RDF>
</x:xmpmeta>
<?xpacket end="w"?>`

[bo0tzz]

Does the Immich UI actually support the additional XMP metadata fields yet

No, there is no option to display "custom" metadata in the UI, sidecars don't do anything special compared to the EXIF data inside the original file.

[brownphotographic]

OK, so:

1. What is the purposed of the metadata in the sidecar?
2. Is there then just a need to submit a feature request to get these fields populated in the UI?

[bo0tzz]

1. Storing metadata edits without needing to touch the original file
2. I think there already is one

[brownphotographic]

OK Thanks

On 2, I can't find one so I created one...

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