Not a letdown, as I can import them manually, but I prefer to do it automatically. Unfortunately, instead of importing the covers, the program imports the thumbnails, as the real covers are a few pages ahead. ![]() This has an advantage, being that it can interact with far more services than its competitors, but also it's quite slower, and not very flexible.įor example, I decided to build a game collection to test the program, and when I went to select the source of the data, I was thrilled to found MobyGames between the sources (those guys hold tons of high resolution videogame covers scans). GCstar brings along quite some plugins to extract information from various sources, instead of using the APIs sites like Amazon provide, GCstar queries and parses HTML code to find the relevant data. Contrary to other apps, GCstar does not let you have different types of things coexist in the same collection, so forget about having Krzysztof Kieslowski and Britney Spears sitting one next to the other (unless you were so crazy to bought that "movie" she made). It's easy to get used to it, but still feels awkward despite packing some shiny eye candy:Īfter getting familiar with the interface, I decided to create a new database. Still, it maintains most identifying widgets of GTK, including its file browser. Usually, I cringe every time I run a GTK app in Windows, but the developers did a nice job with the skin. The first thing that impressed me was that it looked quite nice under Windows. GCstar is a cross platform app, that uses the GTK toolkit and several external libraries to do its job. Then I remembered that an OSS movie cataloging software called GCfilm stopped development a while ago to be fully rewritten and contain every kind of collectible thing created by humankind. A quick search in DC also unearthed Libra, very much like MediaMan, not as good, but freeware, and Listal, a web service that looks like a nice option to have your data up in the cloud, while having a social component in it, it seems you can even backup that data locally. The main option was (and continue to be, despite this post) MediaMan, a very polished piece of software that lets you catalog music, films, books and other media pulling data from the Internet, but shareware. So I searched around for the software to let me accomplish such thing. ![]() ![]() So that's why the usual sections are missing.Īfter looking at the mess created by all the items sitting in my shelves, drawers, and other unspecified places (room corners, for example), I decided that it was impossible to remember what I have and where it is, so it was time to put my ass to work and catalog these things to prevent future losses and be able to accumulate more crap have quick access to my precious belongings :D Hey, it's free as in freedom of speech (not free as in beer, sheesh D), how can you think I was paid to do this? OK, seriously, I am just testing the program for my own useĭISCLAIMER: This is not the usual mini-review, it started as a simple remark in General Software Discussion, but in the end it got so big I decided it should belong here. It's a free application, so use your imagination :)
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