Jan 30, 2012
Data Crow for Collection Cataloging
Recently I took on the task to catalog my video and music collection. This need was driven by the fact that I was purchasing duplicate movies. The criteria was simple. It had to be able to use a barcode scanner, handle movie and audio collections, more if possible and have connections to access IMDB, Amazon and others if possible and able to run on different OS’s. And lastly the cost had to be... read more
Nov 25, 2010
Install OpenDb on CentOS 5.5
The Open Media Collectors Database (OpenDb) is a PHP and MySQL based inventory application that allows you to easily catalog and lend out your stuff. Its primary purpose is to catalog media related items, such as DVD’s, Books, CD’s etc, but its so flexible you can use it to catalog pretty much anything. Opendb ships with many media related (DVD, VCD, CD, VHS, games, books, and laser discs.)... read more
Nov 24, 2010
Tracking Movie Collection with Griffith
Have you ever had one of those times that you were looking for a movieĀ and didn’t know if you had it or just had no idea what movies you had? Well in comes a nice little application called Griffith. Griffith is a media collection manager application. Adding items to the collection is as quick and easy as typing the film title and selecting a supported source. Griffith will then try to fetch all the... read more