CD/DVD cataloging software

Dan Horák dan at danny.cz
Tue Jul 17 18:33:06 UTC 2007


Dan Horák píše v Po 16. 07. 2007 v 21:26 +0200:
> Dan Horák píše v Po 16. 07. 2007 v 19:21 +0200:
> > 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.
> 
> Looks like I have found a way to make cdcollect work. Stay tuned ;-)

Improved CDCollect source package can be found at
http://fedora.danny.cz/cdcollect-0.6.0-1.src.rpm


		Dan





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