Don't know how they are for accessibility or suitability to your desires because I haven't tested them, but I found the following prowling the Ubuntu 10.10 repositories. I emphasize that all I know about them is contained in the quoted descriptions. -- tellico Tellico is a collection manager for KDE. It includes default collections for books, bibliographies, comic books, videos, music, coins, stamps, trading cards, and wines, and also allows custom collections; with unlimited user-defined fields allowed. Automatically formatted names, sorting by any property, filters, automatic ISBN validation and full customization for printing or display through XSLT files are some of the features present. It can import CSV, RIS, BibTeX, and BibTeXML files; and export CSV, HTML, BibTeX, BibTeXML, and PilotDB. Tellico can also import data from Amazon, IMDb, CDDB, or any US-MARC compliant z39.50 server. The files are stored in XML format, avoiding the need for database server. It also makes it easy for other softwares to use the Tellico data. -- GCstar GCstar is an application for managing your collections. It supports many types of collections, including movies, books, games, comics, stamps, coins, and many more. You can even create your own collection type for whatever unique thing it is that you collect. Detailed information on each item can be automatically retrieved from the internet and you can store additional data, such as the location or who you've lent it to. You may also search and filter your collection by many criteria. GCstar is the successor GCfilms and is compatible to its databases. As GCfilms isn't developed any more GCstars replaces GCfilms. -- banshee Banshee is a media management and playback application for the GNOME desktop, allowing users to import audio from CDs, search their library, create playlists of selections of their library, sync music to/from iPods and other media devices, play and manage video files and burn selections to a CD. See also banshee-mego (mobile device integration). -- Quod Libet Quod Libet is a music management program. It provides several different ways to view your audio library, as well as support for Internet radio and audio feeds. It has extremely flexible metadata tag editing and searching capabilities, using the same interface as Ex Falso. Supported formats include MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Musepack (MPC), WavPack, and MOD/XM/IT. -- juk * Music collection, playlists, and smart playlists * Tag editing support, including the ability to edit multiple files at once * Tag-based music file organization and renaming * Automatic tagging using MusicBrainz * CD burning support using k3b * Album art using Google Image Search -- music librarian Music Librarian is a tool to assist you in organizing your collection of music files. It provides an interface from which you can view the list of files in your collection and modify the tags of one or more files. -- jajuk Jajuk is software that organizes and plays music. Jajuk is designed to be intuitive, fast and provide multiple ways to perform the same operation. It is a fully-featured application geared towards advanced users with very large or scattered music collections. -- audiolink AudioLink is a tool that makes searching for music on your local storage media easier and faster. Your searches can include a variety of criteria, like male artists, female artists, band, genre, etc. It works with MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files and creates a MySQL database in which it stores the information about the music files. It creates symbolic links to the actual music files based on the search results. You can search for multiple fields, like artist, band, composer, lyricist, etc. -- plait Plait (pronounced "play") is a command-line jukebox and music player front end. It understands brief, easy to type queries that pick a single song, mix queries that combine works from multiple artists, stream queries that find Shoutcast radio streams, and everything in between. A variety of filters are available to pick just the music you want to hear. In order to actually play the music it finds, Plait automatically hands off a play list to one of the supported music players (or you can use it manually with any player that supports .m3u playlists). -- rhythmbox Rhythmbox is a very easy to use music playing and management program which supports a wide range of audio formats (including mp3 and ogg). Originally inspired by Apple's iTunes, the current version also supports Internet Radio, iPod integration and generic portable audio player support, Audio CD burning, Audio CD playback, music sharing, and Podcasts. -- python-musicbrainz2 python-musicbrainz2 provides simple, object oriented access to the MusicBrainz web service. It is useful for applications like CD rippers, taggers, media players, and other tools that need music metadata. The MusicBrainz Project (see http://musicbrainz.org) collects music metadata and is maintained by its large and constantly growing user community. -- Enna Enna is a Media Center application. Featuring a simple user interface, Enna allows the user to browse and play music and video files, browse pictures and play photo slideshows, build a database of the available media, retrieve information from the Internet (such as covers, fan art, song lyrics, and much more). Enna is based on the powerful Enlightenment Foundations Libraries (EFL) for its graphical user interface and GeeXboX libraries for multimedia playback and information retrieval. Best regards, Paul _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list