How to Use Gnome Catalog

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Transcript

Alright, this one is going to be on Gnome Catalog and basically it’s a cataloging program that’s mainly meant for people that have a lot of disks or DVDs or whatever, and inside those disks that they have, they have a lot of data like MP3s, music, videos, pictures whatever it is, and you know when you have a lot of those you probably don’t remember which CD it is that you’re trying to find. So this program helps you because it organizes it on your computer and you can actually search through it and you know which CD that you need. So that’s the convenience if using this program to catalog your stuff. Now this only saves the metadata of which disk that you are loading up, so I may show you the program, this is Gnome catalog here. Now like I said you can wish for any file inside your computer but usually it’s from music, videos or pictures. Now you see you have a thumbnail if you have a picture or video and that’s pretty cool so you know which one it is and you can actually do ratings here. You see how you can rate stuff over here, you can do the rating whatever it is, and it tells you the size of it also. Now you click on it you have like more detail about in here, so that’s like you know to save all the metadata stuff so that’s how you know. And you see, this is a folder but if you have a disk or multiple disks then you know which disk is from like I have this one is my anime stuff, and in here you can see that all the videos that was in that disk and it works for any other disk that you load up and catalog it. So that’s the convenience of this program. You don’t have to remember which disk that has that file or there it is. This one will do all the work for you just load it up and scan it and that’s it. Now, what I hate about this is some of the features that I want. It doesn’t have like you know, if there’s this anime watching and the thumbnail is kind of like small or whatever or like you don’t know which movie is from. The thumbnail does it that’s all you know and you know the name that’s it, but I want it like the Gallery image for a movie. It’s kind of like this in gallery pic. And you can actually see the whole screen shots of the video. I kind of wanted some like this, but they don’t have it so that’s the only downfall. This is the thumbnails to me, but everything else is pretty sleek and to edit is kind of weird but this is how you edit. Go to Edit and Preference, and here you can tell which folder you want, so if it’s a CD you do that or if it’s a folder you want to do that then whatever it is then just choose it, but when I do the CD right here because that’s mostly what people use. And if you want thumbnail you have to put this right here, and you have the thumbnails otherwise, they will show no thumbnail so click OK and you have to go here now and where it says, “add” right click on this and hit the disk, and then it’s going to scan it down here you see that scanning. So we wait for it to scan and that’s pretty much it. So you have your new disk down here and you see it scans all my files in that DVD that I had and that’s pretty much it, and you just save it off and take out your CD and put another one in and scanning it also and after that you can actually search in here alright. There’s a search option, so let’s say you want to search for something. You see if I search for Gaga. It just goes to her songs or videos or whatever and I search back to it, there you go, so it’s going to actually search all your data from within this program and then after you know where it is, go grab your disk and you’re done with it, so that’s mainly for this program. And at two things it’s useful it’s just that that I wish there is more options. I emailed the guy I don’t know if he is going to do what I told him to do, I wish, so that’s it. This is a Gnome Catalog and this is in your repositories so you don’t have to go anywhere just go in your Sonoptic and Gnome Catalog, that’s it. That’s the program there, that’s all.