Catalogizer software
I have tried many and did not like either one; enough said. Finally I decided to write one for ourselves: first I wanted to do it in full java, but right now I’m hesitating -
- I need multiple users (so that we can upload from my machine or the laptop in the same time)
- proper database is a must (I’m tired of hashmap dumps, xml files and half baked lucene caches)
- simple gui (I don’t want a command line tool while swing may be too steep for me)
Either way, on the client side I must have a crawler; right now
the crawler is finished and does what I need: it reads directories and saves them as xml files. Can read mp3, zip, 7zip, rar and DOS descript.ion files (which is supported by Total Commander for example). It mainly uses
XML Directory Listing,
jID3,
J7Zip and
JUnRar (these are Apache/LGPL/free libraries) – I had been thinking about the exif info and the avi metadata, but the exif info is way too complex to be fully stored (and I just don’t need it) while the avi metadata is a total pain in the back in java (JMF player realization, broken/legacy libs etc).
I’ll upload the source to Google Code sooner or later, til then the binary is here:
http://www.rosamez.com/download/xml-dir-listing-ex.7z
(this is only the crawler; it’s a command line application! Example usage:
java -jar xml-dir-listing-ex.jar -o c:\test.xml -m -a -dion c:\temp)
Tags: java
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