MKAT
MKAT is a set of command line tools to burn and catalog data, audio CD or arbitrary directories and then search the catalog database.
Default configuration uses cdrecord/growisofs for burning CD/DVD. In principle, it's possible to redefine CD_OPTS/DVD_OPTS and CD_BURN_CMD/DVD_BURN_CMD to use other programs. See burn(1) code for *_OPTS definition.
It uses mkisofs and cdrecord to create iso image and burn CD, -r option allows to pass through options to cdrecord. Cdrecord and mkisofs options can be configured in /etc/mkatrc and ~/.mkatrc. Catalog tools are mkat and mkata, burn tools are burn and burna, with trailing `a' standing for `audio'.
It has been made because I was tired of specifying parameters to mkisofs and cdrecord, and I also wanted a database of my CD collection that could be simple, easy to read and searchable with grep.
NOTE: I use autofs to mount CD-ROM for checking and cataloging, actually, I just don't mount it explicitly and eject after sleeping $AUTOFS_DELAY seconds. Set unmount timeout for autofs to $AUTOFS_DELAY seconds or CD won't eject after everything's done. Also, it's useful to look at created iso image before burning, I have the following lines in my /etc/auto.misc:
iso -fstype=iso9660,ro,sync,nodev,nosuid,loop :/home/ledestin/cdimage.iso cd -fstype=iso9660,ro,sync,nodev,nosuid,speed=32 :/dev/sr0 I also have a symlink lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2004-04-21 13:13 /misc -> /var/autofs/misc/
so I can just say `ls /misc/iso' and see the contents of the iso image.
INSTALLATION
`make install' if you're a not Debian user, apt-get otherwise. `make uninstall' is also available.
MKAT depends on cdrecord, dvd+rw-tools, mkisofs, sed, awk, dotlockfile, cdparanoia, cd-discid present, the last two only required for work with audio CDs.
burn(1) depends on cdrecord, dvd+rw-tools, dotlockfile exclusively, so if you don't intend to use it, no need for them. The same thing goes for burna(1) and cdparanoia.
CONFIGURATION
/etc/mkatrc and ~/.mkatrc are sourced by the tools in that order, .mkatrc settings override global settings from /etc/mkatrc.
Tarball version installer recognizes #####DEFAULTS END HERE string as the end of default section. New options supplied with default config are written into default options and locally modified part is written after the defaults this way defaults can be easily overrided.
On a Debian system I use debconf and a config will be created automatically after you answer questions. But if you install from a tarball you need to edit config file before running anything. I provide a sample config file in examples/mkatrc, which is copied to /etc/mkatrc on install.
See manual page mkatrc(5) for more info.
DESCRIPTION
mkat creates a file in $LISTDIR (see mkatrc(5)) named after CD label with
first line being a label, consecutive lines listing CD contents, e.g.
FMP2 1-4
[A-F_&_AF]_Fullmetal_Panic_Fumoffu_-_04.avi:175M:b43e0fd3bd7f3afc97b47a75810276d3
[A-F_&_AF]_Fullmetal_Panic_Fumoffu_-_03.avi:175M:7cfd53c75e2753aafea0e6fddcfb4e07
[A-F_&_AF]_Fullmetal_Panic_Fumoffu_-_02.avi:175M:d6f3b47f254df00d4419fddf59919bb1
[A-F_&_AF]_Fullmetal_Panic_Fumoffu_-_01.avi:176M:635f23f89dd69fff11162a89655f5ca1
That is file description consists of the file name, size, md5 sum.
TAGS
If you wish to categorize your collection, use tags like 'movie', 'anime',
'comedy', 'adventure', etc. (e.g.
http://animenfo.com/animetitle,114,tzoabg,cowboy_bebop.html).
You can specify tags when burning:
burn '-m-t anime,comedy,adventure' 'Cowboy Bebop' .
or when you wish to catalog already burned: mkat -t anime,comedy,adventure
Or, if you have a .list file already, edit it, adding "tags: anime comedy adventure" as the SECOND line. $vi ~/.mkat/Cowboy\ Bebop.list
"mkat -S anime" will print all list files with "anime" tag, "mkat -S movie,romance" will print files containing both "movie" and "romance" tags.
List existing tags with "mkat -a".
GETTING A NEW VERSION
This project is hosted at https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/mkat/
FEEDBACK
I'll be glad to hear any feedback from you. How do you find the package, how did you use, what was your experience, etc. Write me at ledestin@amur.ru
LICENSE
Mkat is released under GPL, see LICENSE for more info.
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/Dmitry Maksyoma <ledestin@amur.ru>, Sat, 20 Aug 2005 21:17:50 +1000
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