Media Cataloging Software?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday June 21, 2007 @11:01AM from the where-are-all-my-files dept.

Rich0 asks: "I have a growing pile of CDs/DVDs holding hundreds of GB of files. I would like a linux-compatible software solution to cataloging and searching these disks. Lots of solutions exist for music/video, but not so many for files. The software should have the ability to easily scan disks: pop in disc; software reads disc; software prompts for a name (with something sensible defaulted); software ejects disc; software tells me what if any label to write/apply to the disc; and software is ready for the next disc. I've seen one or two packages out there but they usually require lots of manual disk labelling, or their search capabilities are limited. Windows-only software won't be of much use to me. What are others using to manage their media collections?"

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The answer always is... by TheSHAD0W · 2007-06-21 11:11 · Score: 3, Insightful

...copy them all to one or two terabyte HDs and be done with it.
1. Re:The answer always is... by TheSHAD0W · 2007-06-21 11:47 · Score: 2, Insightful
  
  If that were his problem then yes, it'd be a whole lot different. But that's not his problem.
  
  I've run into variations of this time and time again, people with floppies, people with CDs and Zip drives, with a whole library of them, and needing to get them organized. People going out and buying a CD-R jukebox with 7 CD drives in it to stick on their server, when it'd be cheaper to copy the data to a hard drive and serve it that way.
  
  When you have a bunch of removable media you need to archive, in the last decade it has almost always been less expensive to copy that data to a big volume than to try and organize it - especially when you consider the man-hours lost to indexing and to finding the data you want. Add in the convenience factor and it's a no-brainer.