Tag: entertainment

## Thu 15 Jun 2023 11:55:55 AM EDT

How many movies do you have in your home? What formats? Have you watched them all?

If someone were to ask me those questions, I must say that my immediate answer would be a quick, “I don’t know. But, if the same person were curious enough to say that they would let me check to see, I could actually give them an answer relatively quick, as I have spent way too much time cataloging our collection.

And if by some weird chance you are the type of person that would want to walk up to me and ask me about the collection off videos I have at home, let me go ahead and beat you to the punch, and drop a link here to a spreadsheet:

=> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iVpG9tIs_F8Db4KMd9QbASrbhBA8ZO94FUx-pH_DlCA/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iVpG9tIs_F8Db4KMd9QbASrbhBA8ZO94FUx-pH_DlCA/edit?usp=sharing

That sheet lists every title that’s currently on the shelves in my home. There are a few duplicate titles listed, but you should notice in the “media” column that duplicate titles are usually due to having it available on another format. And, yes, there are quite a few unpopulated cells and a few cells that might contain bad data; while I did take quite a bit of time cataloging everything, I have yet to take the time to make the data perfect. For the most part, I simply popped a title in, hit a button, and let the program i was using do the rest. As for the software I used to catalog everything, I used GCstar, a neat–nearly defunct–little program that was built for cataloging just about any collection a person might have.

=> http://www.gcstar.org http://www.gcstar.org
=> https://gitlab.com/GCstar/GCstar https://gitlab.com/GCstar/GCstar

I would love to sit and write more about the little program, but I think I’ll save that for another day, just like all the other random bits of software I would love to review. For now, though, I can say that I like the program and it suits my needs just fine. Oh, and I guess I’ll go ahead and share another neat little trick that it can do; imagine that for some reason you’re running a small library or a mom and pop video store–or that you’re just that protective and proud of your collection. Well, guess what; you can publish a listing of your collection on a webserver for browsing–exported from the program, it doesn’t do the serving–and within the program you can record people borrowing titles, and when you agreed to have them returned.

As for the web display of the catalog, I do have an example using my collection running on my home server. There’s several different templates that the program had included–and you could, of course tweak any of it to suit your tastes–but I’m just going with one of the simpler looking ones that had a search functionality built in.

=> https://kg4vma.duckdns.org/collections/movies https://kg4vma.duckdns.org/collections/movies

I dunno. Anyway, there’s a list of the different things we have to watch at home–which gather dust, mainly, as we’re usually streaming something.

Thanks for reading;

–J