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Re: Master Media Database implementation/design. Comments pl

Since you asked, a few suggestions:

--- Add Optional Media Location
- Ex AFAIK Music Playlists are not stored in the music database but
read from the specified location at run time, this way the media
object would not "have" to be in a database.

--- Add UI Plugin ID
- IIRC Two Plugins can share the same name but not the same "ID"

--- Media Label (and maybe label2 and label3)
- Text string(s) so the user will know what it is
This could help if you, for example, wanted to prompt/ask the
user before actually causing the media to "play"
you would not need to make a call to the music/video/etc plugin
to do a db lookup just to get the labels.

Not really sure what your question is for the associations UI
and Input plugin so not musch help there.

HTH,
patrick

<blockquote data-quote="patrick" data-source="post: 54856" data-attributes="member: 12502">Re: Master Media Database implementation/design. Comments plSince you asked, a few suggestions: <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />--- Add Optional Media Location&nbsp; - Ex AFAIK Music Playlists are not stored in the music database but &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; read from the specified location at run time, this way the media&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; object would not &quot;have&quot; to be in a database.--- Add UI Plugin ID &nbsp; - IIRC Two Plugins can share the same name but not the same &quot;ID&quot;--- Media Label (and maybe label2 and label3)&nbsp; - Text string(s) so the user will know what it is&nbsp; &nbsp; This could help if you, for example, wanted to prompt/ask the &nbsp; &nbsp; user before actually causing the media to &quot;play&quot;&nbsp; &nbsp; you would not need to make a call to the music/video/etc plugin &nbsp; &nbsp; to do a db lookup just to get the labels. Not really sure what your question is for the associations UI and Input plugin so not musch help there.HTH,patrick</blockquote>

[QUOTE="patrick, post: 54856, member: 12502"] [b]Re: Master Media Database implementation/design. Comments pl[/b] Since you asked, a few suggestions: :) --- Add Optional Media Location - Ex AFAIK Music Playlists are not stored in the music database but read from the specified location at run time, this way the media object would not "have" to be in a database. --- Add UI Plugin ID - IIRC Two Plugins can share the same name but not the same "ID" --- Media Label (and maybe label2 and label3) - Text string(s) so the user will know what it is This could help if you, for example, wanted to prompt/ask the user before actually causing the media to "play" you would not need to make a call to the music/video/etc plugin to do a db lookup just to get the labels. Not really sure what your question is for the associations UI and Input plugin so not musch help there. HTH, patrick [/QUOTE]