Collections Manager GCstar Version 1.4.3

Do you have a large number of music CDs, video games, books, or movies that you would like to organize? GCstar is a free and open source general purpose tool for managing all kinds collections. You can use it to search for items using various criteria. The software has functions to automatically retrieve information about the items in your collections from the Internet and add it to the items in the database. You can add additional information such as the item's location or who has borrowed it from you.

The predefined collection categories are movies, video games, books, music, wines, board games, TV show episodes, and comic books, but the user can create customized collection types by selecting suitable fields.

Search options include pre-defined criteria and user-defined criteria as well as filters for common actions, such as displaying only the movies you haven't watched yet.

GCstar includes functions for managing the lending or items, such as noting the borrower's contact information, and sending emails.

GSstar is primarily a Linux application implemented in Perl using Gtk2-Perl but has also been successfully tested on MS Windows. It integrates well with the desktop environments Gnome and XFCE.

Screenshots of the application can be found here. Download and installation information is available here.