Tellico

Tellico is a open source and cross-platform software project designed from the ground up to help users track and organize their collections. It is supported on a wide range of Linux distributions, as well as on the Mac OS X operating system.

Features at a glance

Key features include support for managing many types of items, including music, books, videos, comic books, board games, video games, bibliographies, coins, wines, trading cards or stamps, as well as supports for an unlimited number of user-defined fields.

In addition, the application can import data from a wide range of file formats, including CSV, PDF, Bibtexml, Bibtex, RIS and MODS, support for exporting data to HTML, CSV, PilotDB, Bibtex and Bibtexml formats, support for grouping items, built-in search and view filtering.

Another interesting thing is the abilit to import data from IMDb, Amazon, CDDB, GCstars, z39.50 servers, audio files, Alexandria, SRU servers, as well as various other websites.

Supports a wide range of GNU/Linux and BSD operating systems

While the Tellico developers provide support for a wide range of GNU/Linux operating systems, including Debian, Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora, Linux Mint, Gentoo, Pardus, Slackware and Arch Linux, they also support FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD and PC-BSD systems.

Availability and under the hood

A quick look under the hood, will show us that the program relies on a MariaDB or MySQL database for storing your collections, as well as many other libraries, especially Qt for its modern and cross-platform graphical user interface.

Being an open source software, it is available for download as a source archive, allowing the user to configure, compile and install it on any GNU/Linux OS. However, it is best to install the application from the default software repositories of your Linux distribution.

Bottom line

Summing up, Tellico is a really great application for managing all sorts of collections, from books, music and video collections to stamps, coins and wine collections, in style and without too much fuss.

What is new in this release:

• Improved support for importing PDF files from Science Direct.
• Enabled optional build support for QImageBlitz library.
• Fixed scrolling problem with large tables (Bug 348189).
• Fixed HTML exported titles with quotation marks (Bug 348381).
• Fixed crashing bug with file listing importer (Bug 345458).
• Fixed crashing bug with importing MODS files with external fetcher.
• Fixed accelerator key conflict (Bug 351226).
• Fixed bug with image importing for Discogs data source.

What is new in version 2.3.10:

• Updated Discogs fetcher to new API (Bug 342827).
• Updated Moviemeter fetcher to new API.
• Added filter rules for "Greater than" and "Less than" numbers.
• Updated BoardGameGeek fetcher to new API.
• Added capability to import a BoardGameGeek collection.
• Added a data source for Mathematical Reviews.
• Fixed crashing bug with some ISBNdb results (Bug 339063).
• Updated Producer results for IMDb and TheMovieDB fetchers (Bug 336765).
• Fixed bug with Allocine API search using punctuation (Bug 337432).
• Fixed bug with importing Goodreads collection.

What is new in version 2.3.9:

• Improved GCstar import and export to handle custom GCstar fields.
• Updated TheMovieDB fetcher to API version 3.
• Fixed bug with writing link-only images in HTML exporter (Bug 330649).
• Fixed character encoding in Allocine fetcher (Bug 334527).
• Removed IMDb country choice since it's now unavailable (Bug 330641).
• Fixed CSV importer bug, causing a hang (Bug 329677, Debian Bug 729503).
• Fixed crashing bug in IMDB fetcher (Bug 330591).
• Fixed crashing bug in command-line importing (Debian Bug 729499).
• Corrected user dialog text with Google Book Search results (Bug 323475).
• Fixed error in setting modified date for entry in certain cases (Bug 326911).
• Updated IMDb fetcher for website changes (Bug 325673).

What is new in version 2.3.8:

• Data sources for isbndb.com, giantbomb.com, MusicBrainz, allocine.fr, and vndb.org were updated.
• A memory leak when updating entries was fixed.
• CSV values are properly escaped.
• A bug in the Google Scholar login was fixed.
• A bug in retaining allowed values when adding new entries was fixed.

What is new in version 2.3.7:

• Added data sources for DBLP.org and TheGamesDB.net.
• Added import capability for VinoXML files.
• Added capability to enter Google API key for book search.
• Fixed a bug with adding new fields when importing bibtex (Bug 304767).
• Updated the IMDB fetcher.
• Corrected character encoding and title data for DVDfr search.
• Corrected actor and role results from Allocine search.
• Improved the Delicious Library importer.
• Fixed a bug with editing the toolbar configuration in KDE 4.9.2+.
• Fixed a bug with a number field not detecting a modified value (Bug 313304).
• Fixed a bug that caused loans to fail to get checked-in (Bug 307958).

What is new in version 2.3.6:

• This version adds data sources for IMDb in French, Spanish, German, Italian, and Portuguese, support for importing CIW files from ISI, API data sources for Hathitrust, Allocine, ScreenRush, FilmStarts, SensaCine and Beyazperde, Springer Link, and Microsoft Academic Search, and fixes for an intermittent crash when entering multiple ISBN values in searches, a formatting bug in IBS.it searches, and problems when using a local image directory and loading images from Google Book Search.

What is new in version 2.3.3:

• Added data sources for Filmaster and Douban.
• Added capability for importing ADS format from z39.50 sources.
• Added check for duplicate Bibtex keys (Bug: 245225)
• Added manga search for AnimeNfo.com.
• Improved performance for loading and sorting large collections.
• Fixed parsing bug for some IMDb results (Bug: 262036)
• Fixed parsing bug for empty table values (Bug: 261108)
• Fixed parsing bug with AnimeNfo.com results.
• Fixed bug when editing existing filters (Bug: 268829)
• Fixed crashing bug for editing some values (Bug: 269044)
• Fixed bug with loans not being updated for removed entries (Bug: 270129)
• Fixed build for Linux kernel 2.6.38+ when using newer libv4l library.
• Fixed build with GCC 4.6.

What is new in version 2.3.2:

• Fixed bug with list view settings not being saved between sessions
• Fixed bug with updating groups for derived values
• Made Nepomuk support optional
• Added cover art support for MusicBrainz source
• Fixed Google Scholar data source to properly fetch Bibtex
• Fixed bug with FreeDB results not using track artists
• Fixed bug with importing Bibtex file with keyword and keywords fields
• Fixed sorting multiple numeric values in column view
• Fixed sorting for numeric values in group view
• Updated Allocine script to version 0.7.3
• Updated Bibtex importer to translate non-breaking spaces

What is new in version 2.3.1:

• The Edit Dialog was fixed to have consistent behavior when discarding edits.
• A translation error causing an HTML export bug was fixed.
• Searching IMDb and Freebase was updated for new layouts and schemas.
• The matching algorithm for updating entries was improved.
• A crashing bug for z39.50 search was fixed.
• The ability to search dvdfr.com was added.
• Limiting the nmber of exported fields was added, along with new options for CSV table delimiters.

What is new in version 2.3:

• Added data sources for OpenLibrary and Freebase. Both require the QJson library.
• Added new fetcher for combining results from multiple sources
• Added filter for collection type to data source list
• Added clear button for rating widget (Bug: 227982)
• Changed Amazon Japan video search to include DVDs
• Added Dewey Decimal and LoC Classification to z3950 MODS import.
• Changed entry ID values to start with 1 instead of 0
• Fixed sorting by rating when rating has double digits (Bug: 246202)
• Fixed IMDb matching on partial titles (Bug: 245665)
• Fixed IMDb fetching of audio track and color (Bug: 244159)
• Fixed metadata import for file listing
• Updated BoardGameGeek fetcher for new API
• Updated Allocine fetcher for new website format (Bug: 235901)
• Fixed crashing bug for loading images whose size exceeded the cache size
• Control characters are now stripped from all text files on import (Bug: 231302)
• Fixed selection bug when duplicating an entry (Bug: 231125)
• Fixed crash in exporting HTML for collections with no grouping field (Bug: 231302)
• Fixed bug that showed info dialog multiple times when changing image location
• Fixed crash in CSV importer
• Fixed copy/paste for the entry view (Bug: 224580)
• Fixed paragraph fields to show HTML code in the editor dialog

What is new in version 2.2:

• Features:
• Enabled KOrganizer integration for adding loans to calendar (kdepimlibs required).
• Enabled KAddressBook integration for adding borrowers from the address book (kdepimlibs required).
• Improved performance for modifying many entries at once.
• Added data source for Giant Bomb.
• Added data source for The Movie DB.
• Updated CrossRef data source to allow authentication via email only (Bug #224619).
• Added option for disabling webcam support.
• Bug Fixes:
• Fixed some hyphenation issues for 978 ISBN values.
• Fixed bug in en_GB translation that affected file selection.
• Fixed adding "link-only" files (Bug #220645).
• Fixed Discogs track download and title search.
• Fixed setting correct permissions of backup file (Bug #219259).
• Fixed formatting of multiple people with auto-formatting (Bug #219268).
• Fixed updating from Amazon to include book title or album title in search.
• Fixed crashing bug for sorting during HTML export.
• Fixed multiple selection in entry view (Bug #216122).

What is new in version 2.0:

• First release for KDE4
• Relicensed under GPL2/GPL3
• Document loading and image handling was improved for large collections
• Amazon search was updated for new API (requires users to register at Amazon for secret key)
• Webcam support was updated for newer kernels.
• New fields were added for tracking entry id, creation date and last-modification date.
• Dependent fields were improved to allow them to be any field type.
• HTML export was fixed to use correct image location, as well as full locale sorting.
• Adding multiple ISBN values using an unmodified CueCat barcode reader now works.
• A crash when loading some large images was fixed.
• Support for sending citations to OpenOffice.org was removed.

What is new in version 1.3.5:

• Updated entry updating to not combine multiple values.
• Fixed CueCat decoder to work for UPC and ISBN values.
• Updated Delicious Library 1 importer to handle movies and games.
• Fixed query bug with z39.50 ISBN searches.
• Fixed Ubuntu bug 317822, don't mark collection modified when image is found in local data directory.
• Added date, time, and username as available params to XSLT export.
• Added patch from Jake Maciejewski to fix JavaScript sorting.
• Fixed crash when exporting to small Alexandria collections.
• Updated search dialog to open edit box for multiple ISBN search automatically.
• Added various small performance tweaks.

What is new in version 1.3.4:

• The IMDb searching was updated.
• Drag-and-drop was improved to match on file extension.
• Linked images in HTML reports was fixed, and a bug in CSV import with consecutive whitespace was fixed.
• Board game searching was added from Amazon.com.

Requirements:

• Qt