Photo Album Browsing

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Feature request

Which Nextcloud Version are you currently using: 32.0.1

Describe the solution you'd like
Currently it is not possible to browse images which have been collected in an album (in the web) on the client (in my case Windows). This functionality would be useful, because I use other third-party tools to developed and order photos, but want to sort them in my nextclound instance in a shared album with other users, So it would be cool have some kind of a virtual folder in Windows, to be able to access photo albums.

Example
Let's say I have these albums:

Then I want to access them in Windows.

[Rello]

Hello,

thank you for your request here.
The Desktop Client is a pure sync client based on webdav. Its purpose is to sync (or virtually provide) all files that are on the server 1:1.

So the client will show the pictures in the folders you sorted them on the server. The client does not have the album-information. Every (virtual) folder on the desktop equals the same folder on NC.

I am not even sure how this could be done. perhaps some metadata syncing app (outside desktop client) that gets the photo attributes form the server and sets custom file attributes? I don´t know if this would be technically possible.
But the Desktop Client does not have this information.