[Feature] Pairing for RAW/JPEG Versions & Grouping of Bursts

[TKaluza]

I have searched the existing feature requests, both open and closed, to make sure this is not a duplicate request.

• Yes

The feature

Immich already supports manual stacks and plans to add an auto‑burst feature. Photographers who import RAW + JPEG/HEIF pairs or export multiple developed variants of one RAW need a way to keep those versions together inside a burst stack. Adding nested / tagged stacks would solve that without cluttering the timeline.

Problem Statement

• Current stacks are single‑level; they can’t distinguish
• RAW vs. full‑res JPEG of the same shot
• multiple edits (B&W, TIFF, noise‑reduced) of that RAW
• true burst sequence

Use‑Cases

RAW + JPEG Pairing – Collapse .RAW + .JPG into one thumbnail; choose which is the “primary”. Auto Use of JPG for conversion and showing. A switching to the RAW Version would not be really need, more like a shadow version?

Wishes

Would be nice to have an proper API Endpoint for that
Grouping of multiple Variants could be possible.
No mix up of different "Stack-Group" Variants.

Workaround

I love the stacking for too many shots of a moment to not clutter my timeline. If i also import my RAW/JPEG Photos it does not work this way. Right now I am thinking to overwrite the included preview of the raw file with the "jpeg" one. This will result and very "BIG" images. 60MB for RAW and 10MB for JPEG. I am not sure if this is useful for immich?

References

Apple Photos pairing RAW/JPEG also inside bursts
Lightrom, virutal copies
Photo

Similar but different topics:

#6346
#6287
#16168

Platform

• Server
• Web
• Mobile

[bo0tzz]

#2479

[laundmo]

That doesn't seem to discuss what this feature request is talking about, stacking nested images.

Especially since to be fit for the usecase outlined above, i think there would need to be something to distinguish exposure stacks from jpg+raw stacks from burst stacks and so on.

[TKaluza]

Maybe we should name it pairing?