CD/DVD cataloging software
Dan Horák
dan at danny.cz
Mon Jul 16 18:10:56 UTC 2007
alan píše v Po 16. 07. 2007 v 10:35 -0700:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Dan Horák wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have spend this weekend with looking for a software that will
> > catalogue content of CDs and DVDs (I want to know what file is on which
> > CD/DVD). My requirements were simple - work current Fedora (>=6) and
> > automagicly use the disc name when storing the content. As
> >
> > name version platform current use disc
> > Fedora name
> > gtktalog 1.0.4 C/gtk1 no ?
> > gwhere 0.2.3 C/gtk1,gtk2 no* yes
> > CdCat 1.01b C/qt no* no
> > gnomecatalog 0.2.1 Python/gtk no ?
> > cdcollect 0.6.0 Mono no ?
> >
> > * = can read content of the folder where the disc is mounted
> >
> > The main problem is that these softs are looking for CD/DVDs into a
> > fixed path (/media/cdrom, ...) which doesn't exist in current Fedoras as
> > it uses gnome-mount which uses HAL. Also most of them are dead or almost
> > dead projects.
> >
> > As a result I have chosen gwhere for my usage. It required not so much
> > effort to make it build and then work. You can find it at
> > http://fedora.danny.cz/gwhere-0.2.3-1.src.rpm The CDCollect project
> > looks quite promising, but I don't know how to integrate scanning of
> > gnome-mounted (using HAL) discs.
> >
> > When some other solution exists (Beagle?), please let me know.
>
> I have yet to find a good solution. Most of them seem to die when you
> throw a couple hundred DVDs of software archives at them.
>
> I will look at gwhere and see if it is any better.
Probably not as it uses plain text files to store the catalogs.
Dan
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