Hi everyone,

I am working on something where I want to do this -

• player algorithm chooses when it wants to play files
• it queries a database of files which are tagged with various things ( key, bpm, mood, instrumentation )
• this process returns an appropriate file, or set of files

Doing this with vanilla Pd objects could get very fiddling quickly - maybe coll could do it?

Does anyone know of an external which could handle the database?
or would it be best to build this as a request to some other piece of code which returns a filename?

r

maybe https://github.com/residuum/PuRestJson
Is my best bet?

@rotho In Pd vanilla [text] could do it I think. [text search] is not very versatile but there are workarounds. For example, if you have one line of text for each file, and each field is a fixed tag (first field: filename, second field: key, third field: bpm etc), you can do searches with [text sequence] followed by list split, select etc.
Hope that makes sense.

@weightless Ok thanks for the help.

In the end I realised the things we need to do will be a whole developers job in themselves, so we are going to abstract that out of Pd and handle it via an API