OK, I've been waiting for an alternative to this but all I've seen is a mention of DiskDB...
OK, back before Bittorrent, when filesharing transferred sequentially was all the rage, I thought "Wouldn't it be great if I could share all these files that are archived on CD and simply have my computer request the CD when someone started the download?" I found the 1disk file management application. It had serious limitations, but it basically created a virtual hard drive with all of your removable media cataloged in it. You could search, check file attributes, and start transfers without ever accessing the disc it's stored on.
All the competitors are off-line disc catalogs that do not integrate with Explorer.
The major lacking feature is the fact that you can't store a portion of the file on the drive for access transfers to start before the original disc/disk is inserted. The only feature DiskDB has that it doesn't is the ability to catalog files within archive files and folders. It should always store complete TXT, NFO and ID.DIZ files so sense can be made without accessing the original disk. It should also allow access profiles and store only what is needed for certain off-line acesses. For instance, once WinZip is installed, highlighting a Zip file will show the fileid.diz info in the status bar or a pop-up dialog. Highlighting a file should not trigger a request for the disc, so this should be stored in the database. With huge arrays of hard drives, I should be able to mount a DVD image in Daemon-Tools and play the looping menu while the application requests the original disc containing the image to continue.
I suggest it only because I can't find an alternative that includes these features. Can anyone suggest something better? The damn 1vision company focused on frickin' online storage when that fad came around and never got back to adding anything significant to 1disk.