[General] Alternative for hard-coding asset file names

[robertkety]

Wanted: An Asset Manager that eliminates our current practice of hard-coding asset file names. Furthermore, I'd appreciate if we didn't resort to a single json file of file names.
Maybe a separate library which generates code against an asset directory using t4 templates?

[persn]

The MonoGame Content Pipeline tool supports add-ons, but I'm unsure if we can use that for this purpose. If we could make the pipeline generate a code file, xml, json or whatever with our data it would be neat I think. Either way, anyone researching this issue should probably get familiar with the pipeline tool.