Description:

This driver provides a standard CQC media repository based on on-disk media that has embedded metadata tags. The standard metadata tag formats are supported for the file formats supported. Cover art can be embedded, or a separate JPG images in the same directory as the media files.

When you load the driver, you provide it with a top level directory, and it assumes that all media is distributed underneath that directory, with each collection in a separate sub-directory (or sub-sub-directory, etc...) I.e. it scans the whole tree and anywhere that it finds a media file, it assumes that directory represents a collection.

Quirks and Limitations:

This driver only looks for WMA, MP3, M4P, M4A files, which are the ones it understands how to extract metadata from, Any other files will not even be seen so they will not be picked up.

There is no incremental scanning available. It has to scan the entire repository if you want to add new content, so it's a bit abusive of disc resources if you have a really large repository.

Connection Details

Not applicable for this driver.

Driver Fields

This section lists the fields that the driver makes available, their types, minimum and maximum values, etc...

Name	Type	R/W	Description/Limits
Loaded	Boolean	R	Indicates whether the repository is loaded or not. It is set at the end of a scan of the XML file. If the scan fails, this will be set to false.
ReloadDB	Boolean	W	Write true or false to this field to make the driver re-load the XML file.
Status	String	R	Indicates the current repository status. If all is well it indicates that the data is loaded. During the load process it indicates progress status as the load continues. If no repository has been loaded, it indicates that.
TitleCount	Card	R	Indicates the number of title sets currently loaded.