CD/DVD cataloging software

[Valent Turkovic]

On 7/22/07, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/16/07, Dan Horák <dan at danny.cz> 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.
> >
> >
> >                 Dan Horak
> >
> > --
> > Fedora maintainer: TinyERP, Code::Blocks, QGit, Tailor
>
> I tested all cd/dvd catalogue tools some time ago and found cdcat to
> be the best of them. I didn't test gwhere because I wasn't aware of
> it.
>
> gnomecatalog and as I recall all the others I tested, except cdcat,
> wouldn't show files when I did some random file search.
>
> I knew which files I had, so I searched and most of them wouldn't find
> them even if they indexed them! Only cdcat worked as expected!
>
> Is there a chance for cdcat to be included in fedora repos?
> It is not the most nicest looking program but it does the job - and
> does it perfectly!

cdcat has one nice benefit - it also has a windows executable version
so you can send your catalog to your friends on "the dark side" :)

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