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Is there any software that combines all the data, media catalog and organize work with creating a website as a result?

A website which

  • allows you to manage your own data, describe or add notes to your own movies, music, or make notes with FAQs or Hows Tos.
  • I can access from my own computer as localhost or, if I want, to share publicly or with password protection.
  • syncs data between two computers through P2P, that would be excellent

Is there any such a powerful computer data organizer / manager? I know there are plenty of data organizers and management apps, but they are dedicated apps. One for movies, one for music, one for data, one for removable drives, one for notes, one for making simple websites, there are also other apps to sync data – all of these apps do another thing.

So is there any piece of software that would have all of these features and will make organizing useful in simple way? Or in another way, how do you deal with all that chaos? Do you have any tips, suggestions? I'm very curious.

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And which operating system would you like it for? (Also, I think you're asking a bit too much. Remember: Good organization begins in your head.) – slhck Aug 4 '11 at 13:03
@slhck: OK. So how You're dealing with classifying and segregating all the data? I'm just curious. After multiple searches I did not find any satisfactory solution or although a tip how to do it better. As I said in my answer to "music2myear" I think that complete redesign of GUI in OS will do the best job. But I don't think that solution exist. – user92881 Aug 5 '11 at 10:00
My data is organized in folders and I find everything I need. I can understand that for some people, this doesn't always work out that well. As said though, what you are dreaming about does not exist as of yet. – slhck Aug 5 '11 at 10:06
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The various media player apps such as Boxee and and Windows Media Center and Xbox Media Center offer local media file organization and streaming locally over your network. Allowing remote streaming may require tools such as LogMeIn Hamachi or another VPN setup. These media players should all support both audio and video playback, as well as third-party sites and apps such as Pandora radio, Netflix, Hulu, and the like.

Regarding the intelligent tagging and information creation, there are not user-level tools that actually create information on their own. They generally will accept your information and then the better ones perform types of pattern analysis to determine if other objects ought to be categorized and tagged the same way (ie, Picasa with face recognition, you have to choose a selection of faces first before it begins "finding" faces that may meet the criteria). A combination of a facial recognition tool and full system indexed searching such as Windows Desktop Search or Google Desktop Search may work, however, this would require a fair amount of hacking to get everything working right, and as far as I am aware, nobody has done it yet.

The short answer then, is no. There is not a tool currently available that you can install on your computer that does all this.

The long answer is if you want to make such an app, the various components are available, and if you do a good job, you could be the next Bill Jobs, or Steve Brin, or Sergei Gates.

UPDATE with some possibilities:

These appear to be mostly related to video, and so do not answer your questions completely. However, they bear mentioning as possible partial solutions to an integrated and automated windows-based media center system.

Lifehacker has an article on using several different tools to automate the process of accessing and managing media, including suggesting for populating metadata for that media.

Their suggesting is based on the tool Ember, which collects media metadata. There is also YAMMMM (did I get enough M's there?) which is also a media metadata manager.

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OK I understand that. That's quite clear there is no software with some sort of A.I. I hope to find software that would combine all of processing and aggregating data. Of course because of technical limitations I was supposed to describe this data. So for example. I have a movie - I make the description or simple copy that from imdb. To make that I have simple text editor. After thoughts I'm thinking, will something like wiki on own computer will do the job. Someone gave mi an idea to base on WordPress engine but I did not take into account as something other as strict internet blog. – user92881 Aug 5 '11 at 9:44
Honestly said my wishes are much closer to create something like new GUI in computer OS rather than separate software to install. I think in present there is too much data that surrounds us and the classic approach to GUI in system OS is a little bit outdatet to struggle with classify all the data. – user92881 Aug 5 '11 at 9:49
As I think of it, there was a media extender app I used a while ago that would automatically download media info from IMDB, rip the disk (in the paid version) and then had it's own interface in Windows Media Center. I'll try and search for it today and get a link. It worked well enough, a few hangs here and there, but I got 30 of my disks ripped during the trial version and, as I said, it worked well enough. Especially with getting the data from online sources. It did nothing for audio disks, though. Only video. – music2myear Aug 5 '11 at 14:11
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