#23 New Media-type: Alias (localy defined for Path and type)

[Jonas Bähr]

It would be very nice if the DB would only contain an alias and not
the real path to the source. Ex: We have our musik on a server on
which also the DB is runing. This wokes superb with prokyon. But:
On each client, the path to the media is an other!
My proposal which would still garanty backwards compatibility:
Add an new typ (lets say 99) and if you have a media with type 99
the path doesn't contain the real path but an alias. for this alias the
real path and type is read from a local file.
Example: two medias have type 99 and the alias ALIAS_NEROS
and ALIAS_JONAS. On my machine ALIAS_JONAS is defined as
local harddrive with path /home/mp3/ and ALIAS_NEROS is an
network-media with path /mnt/neros/mp3/
On my brothers windows-machine ALIAS_JONAS is a
network-media \\jonas\mp3\ and ALIAS_NEROS is a local drive
with path M:\music\

I think especialy for those with several computers and one DB this
would be an exelet extension which shouldn't be too hard to
implement...