The consensus of the session was that the media section in umbraco has not been developed with the pace as all the other sections.
Issues raised were:
* large amount of media is tedious to navigate to
* bulk uploading is not supported out of the box
* resizing and editing is a pain
Suggestions were:
* tagging system
* use and hook up in umbraco an external media management app
* an advanced search page would be essential
* search by tag
* search by file extension
* a generic search page foundation that could also be used in the members section (similar problem)
* if you have 250,000 members you want to be able to search by email, search by group, and any other custom property of the member
* to be able to see were a particular media item is used (node ids or page names)
* to be able to assign a media item to all child nodes of a node (e.g. assign this technical pdf to all products in the Sony LCD category)
Solutions:
* have the media section scan a particular location on a file system and replicate the file structure in that file system
* so subfolders would become child nodes
* images or pdfs in the subfolders would become media items
* in the content section, have a property on an upload datatype that says "this item is re-usable" and replicate that uploaded item into the media section
* an advanced search page as the start page of the media section would be central to a better navigation
* maybe have the search page as a document type were you could add searchable properties, that way you can adopt it to the members section