Desktop application to manage of various types of collections (books, comics, films, TV shows, music, games, wines, stamp, coins, etc...).




GCstar vs Where Is It? Comments

- GCstar is Free and Open Source
Where Is It? is not available for Linux but there are some alternatives that runs on Linux with similar functionality. The best Linux alternative is GCstar, which is both free and Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 25 alternatives to Where Is It? and nine of them are available for Linux so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting Linux alternatives to Where Is It? are Virtual Volumes View, Video Hub App, Basenji and CaDE - CD and DVD Explorer.
Desktop application to manage of various types of collections (books, comics, films, TV shows, music, games, wines, stamp, coins, etc...).





VVV is an application that catalogs the content of removable volumes like CD and DVD disks for off-line searching. Folders and files can also be arranged in a single, virtual file system. Each folder of this virtual file system can contain files from many disks so you can...



no thumbnails of pictures, no way to store a portion of textfiles in VVV database, no filters as in whereist, ...
Searchable mirror catalog of disks volumes, not a collection manager.






Basenji is a volume indexing tool designed for easy and fast indexing of volume collections. It currently supports indexing of removable media such as CDs and USB sticks and stores them as volume objects in a database.




CaDE (CD and DVD Explorer) is a easy-to-use file collection software. CaDE helps you to create and manage large media collections by indexing files on your fixed (HDD) and removable (CD, DVD etc.) storages.



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 related information from the Web.

MeD's Movie Manager is a simple to use, yet customizable, movie manager. It gets the movies info from IMDb.




CDCollect is a CD/DVD catalog application for gnome 2.16. Its functionality is similar to the old gtktalog application for gnome 1.4.




A cross-platform GUI file cataloging program with extensive customization options to suit user preferences. Highly optimized for multi-core parallel search speed, data integrity, and repository portability. Librer can import data from "Where Is It?", "Cathy" and "VVV"



It does not automatically catalog media. You must manually add items to the collection.