Javier Garcia wrote:
Wellcome Donal,
i think you are speaking about a tooooo much complex aplication to be and object (at least nowadays).
??? an object can have arbitrary complexity. you could make a [linux] object, that runs a virtualized full operating system.
however, the power of Pd is in _not_ having such blown-up object but a small, (more or less) orthogonal set of objects that allo you to build more complex objects.
in this case: there is no high-level object that provides a "media database"; but you can build your own in Pd (if you wanted a single (external) object that does all for you, you would better search (or create) a specialized application and stay away from Pd for that very purpose). there are loads of ways to do the database, depending on your needs you can use file-system based storage of (media-)data, keep simple/numeric (meta-)data in tables, keep more complex data in textfiles, keep even more complex data in data-structures.
all in all, you will have to keep your media-data (films, images) on your harddisk instead of a specilized object, and you will be glad about that once you have 30 gig of data and your RAM exploded....
You can construct that application with pd, but start from the begining with the doc.
that is good advice
fgmasdr. IOhannes