> On Sep 9, 2021, at 12:09 PM, Dan Wilcox <danomat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> to build it from scratch is at this moment too big for me.

Ah apologies. I just saw you were *not* asking for custom solution approaches.

> On Sep 9, 2021, at 12:09 PM, Dan Wilcox <danomat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> If I would approach something like this with all the media on disk and only 
> needs to be accessed locally, I would write a simple OSC database server with 
> something like Python. Basically, have a script that crawls through all the 
> folders and fills an SQLlite dB which the server then reads from and have 
> some basic queries via OSC. Pd could then say "I want an image" and the 
> server would respond with an OSC message containing the fullpath as a string 
> and perhaps any additional metadata which might be useful. The type and 
> amount of metadata depends on how much pre-processing and/or manual tagging 
> you want to do.
> 
> That would be a relatively quick & dirty solution. I'm sure there are more 
> robust and generalized media servers out there, but for some things making a 
> streamlined & focused solution is useful.
> 
>> On Sep 9, 2021, at 12:00 PM, pd-list-requ...@lists.iem.at 
>> <mailto:pd-list-requ...@lists.iem.at> wrote:
>> 
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2021 10:00:24 +0200
>> From: ro...@dds.nl <mailto:ro...@dds.nl>
>> To: Pd list <pd-list@lists.iem.at <mailto:pd-list@lists.iem.at>>
>> Subject: [PD] playing random media (bit OT)
>> Message-ID: <13343ae5530cdee19236aec18082b...@dds.nl 
>> <mailto:13343ae5530cdee19236aec18082b...@dds.nl>>
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>> 
>> hi, 
>> 
>> in memory of a great friend i lost 
>> 
>> i'm looking for a way to play  at random from his huge archive 
>> 
>> of mixed media (movies, pictures, sound). 
>> 
>> preferably with Puredata. 
>> 
>> to build it from scratch is at this moment too big for me. 
>> 
>> it would be very much appreciated when somebody can point me 
>> 
>> to something that goes in the direction of this goal. 
>> 
>> rolf
> 
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> Dan Wilcox
> @danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika>
> danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/>
> robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/>
> 
> 
> 

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Dan Wilcox
@danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika>
danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/>
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