> 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>> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >> >> 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 > > -------- > Dan Wilcox > @danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika> > danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/> > robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/> > > > -------- Dan Wilcox @danomatika <http://twitter.com/danomatika> danomatika.com <http://danomatika.com/> robotcowboy.com <http://robotcowboy.com/>
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