CD/DVD cataloging software

Dan Horák dan at danny.cz
Mon Jul 16 19:26:48 UTC 2007


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 ;-)


		Dan





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