@dan
thanks Dan
i'm not a beginner with Pd anymore, so to do some days of patching is
ok.
learning a new language is another story.
but, i still will have a look at your suggestion and see if it's
possible to combine things i can find in this area.
rolf
Dan Wilcox schreef op 09-09-2021 12:15:
> On Sep 9, 2021, at 12:09 PM, Dan Wilcox <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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, [email protected] wrote:
>> Message: 2
>> Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2021 10:00:24 +0200
>> From: [email protected]
>> To: Pd list <[email protected]>
>> Subject: [PD] playing random media (bit OT)
>> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
>> 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
>
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