Databases in Sample and Loop Library apps

This is kind of a geeky area of interest.

I was wondering if any of the Sample or Loop Library apps or collections are built within or around databases? SQLite would be the most likely engine I would guess, but there may be others. Has anybody run into anything like that?

Being something of a DB guy, I'm tuning into this thread but I don't have any special knowledge of it, nor do I have any sample libraries that have any sort of management tools to speak of -- which is a bit of a drag.

(That said, I'm currently pretty over what passes for recombinant postmodernism these days. I was totally in the downtronica groove from the mid-90s -- NIN's Pretty Hate Machine perked up my ears at the start of the decade, but it was Portishead that really grabbed my musical imagination and wouldn't let go for a long time... basically by around 2002 or so when everything just seemed like boring retreads... Sadly, though I imagine myself to be an iconoclast, I'm something of a cork floating on cultural waters. I seem to draw inspiration -- or not -- from what I can find going on around me.)

Anyhow, cultural discursions notwithstanding, count me as listening here...

Most apps with databasing options use their own database, e.g., Kontakt databases all releveant samples, with the ability to search on multiple fields like author, date, type of material, etc.

Steinberg has MediaBay for organizing material, and Sony has a Media Manager optionfor programs like Acid and Vegas.

I think he was wondering about the development toolkits/frameworks/DB platforms behind apps like those you mention.

Face it, Craig... there may be an area of geekdom where your seemingly all-inclusive techno-hegemony doesn't extend!

Thanks, Craig! That was a good start.

I found a little Googleable evidence in a Cubase forum that suggested that there may be an intersection between SQLite and part of the MediaBay storage. I think I may take a look at that. SQLite is free and interesting.

i use different database software to organize different parts of sound libraries and music archive, some of this software is delivered by the music and sound supplier, e.g. record companies where someone in the publishing department builds this databases, then they give us the whole music catalogue for further processing, e.g. transcoding (content aggregating)music for digital download, as well I have my own system for organizing the samples for the different sample player VSTi

and there is commercial database software available specialized for samples, e g. SoundLib, Library Monkey PRO, ExsManager, WaveLab and many more

The Sony apps use Microsoft SQL Server in their Media Manager.

Well they did anyway.

I haven't used a Sony program for quite a while.

RVH, thanks! Those examples were helpful.

That's a good tip. An updated Microsoft .NET Framework seems to ride along with all of the Sony Media Manager products. (I've got to admit that I have ignored the .NET stuff and I don't know much about it.)