Photo SlideShow

I wanted a simple digital frame to randomly run our vacation photos on the kitchen TV. Photo Slideshow easily projects our 3,711 JPEGs and it does so randomly such that every photo seems fresh. I am using a Dell Inspiron 3050 with Ubuntu 24 for cheap installation and easy maintenance. Thank you, Martin, for all your helpful support. You've engineered something wonderful!

Did the job on a Chromebook with a little fiddling. Wanted to have this work offline - and I found the files had to be put in the "Play Files" directory tree - not the "Downloads" tree. The "folder" address for the Slideshow "Options" was something like file:///run/arc/sdcard/write/emulated/0/Pictures - in case that helps someone else. To find the address of the folder I dragged a photo from the Files window to a Chrome window - and the the path needed for "Options" was shown in the Chrome address bar. One star off for the tech fiddling and also would have liked an option to have the photos be static on the Slideshow - not just in motion (panning). But thank you for sharing this extension!

Update Oct 21, 2024: I continued to keep in contact with the developer, and he continued to offer suggestions. I was still hoping to run the extension with files in My files. Some inconsistent behavior while using the Files app, which I am not extremely familiar with, led me to do a factory reset. After that everything worked normally. 10 ⭐ S Update Oct 17, 2024: The developer spent quite a bit of time dealing with my problem, including a screen sharing session while he troubleshot the issue. He was unable to solve the problem then, but the next day I got an email saying that he had produced a new version, but he was not confident that it would solve my problem. However, it seems it has done just that. I'm extremely grateful for the effort put in, and the result of course. Update Sep 17, 2024: The only real "problem" that I have encountered is that images often display stretched across the width of the screen. I have not found out how to prevent that. Enabling and disabling full screen with the Chromebook button overcomes it, but only for the current image. Since one of the features is "Shrinks/Expands photos without displaying black bars!", I am left wondering if this happens automatically and is not configurable. Images stretched to the width of the screen are very distorted. Also, it does not seem to be consistent, as sometimes it displays the same image correctly one time, and then distorted another time, at least for the limited amount of testing that I have done. Update update. Giving up on this extension. The distorted images are just not acceptable. I'm trying to put together a slideshow for a family event in 4 days, so I will look for alternatives. I haven't found another extension that is designed to do what this one does. Google photos slideshow just spins and spins, so that's a lost cause. I'm very disappointed, because this extension seemed to do the job when I first tried it. I thank the developer for his quick response to my initial review. The developer acknowledges that getting to the folder is not easy. However, I first succeeded on a Chromebook by following his suggestion "Best option with Chromebook", which brought up a page with 3 subdirectories, "archive/", "fuse/", and "removable/". Following removable got me the full file string, which I copied, after "media", into the settings window, again after "media". The slideshow worked fine.