Free catalog software for linux

KCatalog project is an Multimedia catalog utility which allows you to organize huge collection of Movie/MP3 files in your hard disks,CDs,DVDs or any other media.
You can explore your multimedia collection easily and find the file you wish in just a few seconds. KCatalog provides extensive support to organize MP3 collection.
A very useful application for serious music lovers...
Main features:
- View MP3 information grouping it by albums, artists, genres, file location or your comments
- View movie information by file location or your comments
- Keep track of your Mp3/Movie CDs or DVDs by saving information like who borrowed it from you, notes regarding the CD/DVD etc
- Create and Manage M3U Playlists
- Sort your files by many different categories like artist, album, genre, title, file Location and your own comments.
- Facility to handle changes in drive letter or changes in Mount Location which is especially useful in linux platforms where the removable storage mount location may change or when you plug your harddisk in some other machine causing your drive letters to change
- Use your favourite application to play music or movie
- Catalog your MP3/Movie CDs, DVDs and other removable storage mediums based on the comments you give
- Efficient pattern matching to search for MP3 Files using file names, file location, ID3 tags (artist, album, genre, title) or your own comments.
- Search facility with advanced pattern matching options
- Database Backup/Recover Mechanism which ensures that your database will not be lost
- Supports both Linux and Windows platforms
- Pluggable Look & Feel
- And more over its Open source

Bundle::Catalog is a bundle to install all Catalog related modules.

SYNOPSIS

perl -MCPAN -e install Bundle::Catalog

This bundle includes all the modules used by the Perl Catalog module.

A Bundle is a module that simply defines a collection of other modules. It is used by the CPAN module to automate the fetching, building and installing of modules from the CPAN ftp archive sites.

External Site Catalog allows you to index and search external sites in a Plone site.

ExternalSiteCatalog is a web crawler that can index external sites and make them searchable in Plone.

You can specify the sites to index in a Plone Configlet, and directly index them from Plone, or let a scheduler do the job.

Searching the external sites is done in a special portlet that is installed with ExternalSiteCatalog.

External sites are not searchable in the normal Plone catalog, but are only available in a separate catalog in the portal_externalcatalog tool.

Class::IntrospectionMethods::Catalog can manage catalogs from IntrospectionMethods.

Exported functions

set_method_info( target_class, method_name, info_ref )

Store construction info for method method_name of class target_class.

set_global_catalog (target_class, ...)

Store catalog informations. The first parameter is the class featuring the methods declared in the global catalog.

Following paramaters is a set of named paramaters (e.g. key => value):

name

Mandatory name for the global catalog

list

array ref containing the list of slot and catalog. E.g.:

list => [
[qw/foo bar baz/] => foo_catalog,
[qw/a b z/] => alpha_catalog,
my_object => my_catalog
],
isa

Optional hash ref declaring a containment for catalog. E.g:

list => [ foo => USER ,
admin => ROOT ],
isa => { USER => ROOT }

Then the ROOT catalog will return foo, and the USER catalog will return foo and admin.

help

Optional hash ref (slot_name => help). Store some help information for each slot.

set_global_catalog will construct:

A ClassCatalog object containing the global catalog informations.

A sub_ref containing the ClassCatalog object in a closure.

Returns ( slot_name, sub_ref ). The sub_ref is to be installed in the target class.

When called as a class method, the subref will return the ClassCatalog object. When called as a target class method, the subref will return an ObjectCatalog object associated to the ClassCatalog object stored in the closure.

These 2 object have the same API. ObjectCatalog is used to contain catalog changes that may occur at run-time. ClassCatalog informations will not change.

Katalog is a CD organizer for the KDE.

If you have many CD and tons of downloaded files, but you arent able to remember where you put a file when you need it, then Katalog may help you. With this application you can scan a CD and store all the data about each file in a tree structured catalog.

You can add as many catalogs as you like. Searching through the catalogs its easy and fast. The folder to search can be on your drive or on a removable media, such a CD, ZIP or floppy. Katalog saves data in a XML file, compressed on the fly using gzip.

I start to write this application trying to port the excellent KDE 1.x application kdiskcat to KDE 3.x, but the part of the KDE API involved is changed radically so I start to write Katalog from scratch.

In the first revision of the application I tried to mimic the graphic interface and the features of kdiskcat. Soon I found two better alternatives of Katalog: gtktalog and CdCat, So I changed my plans and I write a brand-new Katalog fully integrated in KDE.

CataSe provides a catalog server for spatial,temporal, and thematic queries in CQL (ogc).

CataSe is a catalog server that serves documents in response to queries. The queries can contain thematic, temporal, and spatial (geometry) constraints.

It uses OGC standards. The documents are currently ISO 19115 in XML and the query language is CQL.

Qcat is a simple media catalog. It can import data from WhereIsIt. The project is still in pre-alpha stage, so there are no sources available.

Compile:

1. download the source
2.untar it - tar -xzvf qcat-0.5-src.tar.gz
3. cd qcat-dist-0.5
4. here is the tricky part.

Perhaps you use QT 3.3.x. So to compile you have export QT_DIR and PATH for QT4.

Check where is installed QT4. For example if QT4 is in /opt/qt4 type these commands:

export QT_DIR=/opt/qt4
export PATH=/opt/qt4/bin:$PATH

5. run qmake
6. make
7. If all is ok, the result shall be an executable file in qcat-dist-0.5/bin named qcat
8. run it and enjoy.

Installation:

Ive not written any install target, script or so on, so you can just copy "qcat" file somewhere in you path. The install script/target is is in my TODO list.

Some instructions:

This program use SQlite for db backend. During its first run it will create file in ~/.config/QCat in which it will store the configuration. Also it will create your first catalog in your home directory. It will be named defaultCatalog.qcat.

If you want to make shortcut for your CD/DVD drive, go to Tools - Manage Drives. There you can add alias for this drive or any other folder. If you chose that this is optical drive, you have to specify its drive node in /dev/ so the program can read CD/DVD label and mount/unmount the media in it.

In Tools - Manage Icons you can change some of the default icons. They are stored in DB.

Import menu - here you can try to import WhereIsIt xml file. Please notify that if you have groups defined in WhereIsIt file, the hierarchy will be lost. (WherIsIt do not export it), so you have to arrange your disks again. You can use Drag and Drop. At this point only Disk Groups and Disks can be moved.

Saving - there is no need to save your changes, They are committed instantly. Shame on me. I havent write transactions yet.

Locking the catalog - Select catalog properties and click Lock icon. Please note that the passwords are kept in plain text. Shame on me again, so you can just avoid password protection and wait for some new version.

Feel free to explorer. It is almost certain there are plenty of bugs.

Cdcat is graphical (QT based) multiplatform (Linux/Windows) catalog program which scans the directories/drives you want and memoryze the filesystem /including the tags of mp3s/ and store it in a small file.
The database is stored in a gzipped XML format, so you can hack it, or use it if necessary :-)
And the program can store the content of some specified files up to a limit size if you want. (for example: *.nfo)
Main features:
- You can maintain your media borrowing informations.
- Now cdcat can memorize the name of borrowers and show a red X at the top-right corner of the comment window if the media is borrowed actually.
- The borrowing informations can be set from the upper menu and pop-up menu too
- DVD & CD detection on Linux systems. (Apply a patch from Eduard Bloch)
- Accept a command line parameter as starting database
- Now the datafile stores a version info.
- The cdcat warn you if you open unknown (newer) datafile version.
- Made some english language fix. (and some new bug... ;-) )
- Now you can query the size of the full catalog witch clicking "node size" on the catalog name in directory tree browser.
- Cdcat can read avi technical information with a plugin written by Techno