Hi!

It's been a little bit quiet here concerning the multimeda issues. Now 
it the past few days I thought about a an issue we have not yet put 
on our list. Besides reading and writing audio and video data I would 
like to have a database that describes all the bits and peaces on my 
computer and external medias. And for that we need a good object 
model that describes the content and which can be made persistent 
(either in a relational db or in an object db).

So what entities do we need? How do they relate to each other and how 
does existing stuff like id3 tags (is there more?) fit into it. At 
least there should be things like artists, genres, types and textual 
descriptions. Additionaly you would like to have thumbnails for 
images and videos and maybe low-bitrate samples of audio to give a 
quick info about the actual content.

So, any ideas?

Martin