If you have many CDs and when you search for a song or a program, it can take an hour or more to
find the CD with it on, then GTKtalog is for you.
Having used GTKtalog to scan all your CDs, a search of your entire collection of CDs will only take a
few seconds.
Here are some of the exciting features of GTKtalog :
categories to classify files and directories
VFS (Virtual File System) plugins for zip files like (default support for .zip, .tar, .tgz, .rpm)
information plugins for mp3, mpeg, avi ...
powerfull searches on date, size, VFS, description, category using or not regexps
reports, easy file manager like interface
Good reasons to use GTKtalog
Search in a few seconds for a particular file in a zip file you backuped somewhere on one of your 20 CDs.
Scan all your mp3s (stored locally or on CDs) in order to easily retrieve the music you want when you want.
Avoid downloading big libraries or programs by searching for them through all the rpms of your numerous (linux) magazine CDs or ones you have downloaded and put on CD.
Give your friends the GTKtalog reports of your (free) software CDs. They will enable them to ask you for a program, which you be able to find easily.
Share your catalog file with friends so that anyone can search through anyone's collection of CDs.