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I’m an intermediate Drupal user at best and i am certainly not a developer. I’m trying to get a handle on Drupal 7’s media handling and file structure. If this is not the appropriate place to post this question, any help in directing me to the right place would be very helpful.

Let me start with some general questions and then maybe i’ll be able to articulate some questions about specific uses of the module.

1. What precisely is a media asset? That is, it’s neither a node, nor a taxonomy term, comment, etc. So what is it? A new entity? Is its proper name “media asset”? Will it find its way into things like the “Terminology” page?
2. How do/will media assets relate to Taxonomy? That is, it is possible to assign terms to media, but are/will media assets be searchable and discoverable like nodes?
3. How do/will media assets relate to URL aliases? That is, can the option to apply replacement patterns to media assets be expected, the same way replacement patterns are applied to content paths, taxonomy term paths and user paths? Is this simply an issue for the Pathauto/Token modules?

To the extent that i understand Media module, it seems like it could have some too-good-to-be true uses, but i want to make sure i’m actually getting it and not just sticking my amateur nose where it doesn’t belong. Thanks for any insight!

Hello Everyone, my name is Robert and I have been playing with Drupal for about about three year now.I first discovered Drupal while working as a Data Center Technician. And before I became a part of the San Francisco Drupal Users Group (http://groups.drupal.org/node/47010), I felt that I was the only Drupaler in San Francisco, and my learning/motivation was limited. Years later I finally decided to start this group and build support for other locally. Thanks for reading. Feel free to introduce and contribute.