 If you're like me, you probably have a ton of different media out there that you want to consume, but you just don't have the time. So you've probably somewhere made a list, whether it's mentally or actually physically made a list of things that you want to watch or read or whatever in the future when you do finally gain the time to do so. Now usually this entails either you creating your own database like you've created a spreadsheet or you've actually went whole caveman and written it on a piece of paper. I'm not judging. That's exactly what I did. But there are software alternatives for going full caveman. And today I'm going to be taking a look at a piece of software that's going to allow you to keep track of the things that you want to watch in the future and it's called ticket booth. Now ticket booth, like I said is a piece of software that basically just allows you to create a watch later list. And overall it's pretty simple and it does its job fairly well. Now there are a few features that I would like to see it have and I'll talk about those towards the end, but overall it's a really good piece of software. So that's what we're going to take a look at today. If you'd like to help the channel, you could do so by giving this video a thumbs up. So let's go ahead and jump in and take a look at ticket booth. So this right here is ticket booth. Now overall it's a GTK application and like I said it's fairly simple. It keeps track of movies and TV shows and that's what it does. So if you wanted to add a TV show or a movie that you wanted to watch later, you'd go up here and you'd select from the movie database or you'd select manually. So I'll just go ahead and select this one. And let's say that I really want to watch gangs of New York. Now this is a very good movie from the early 2000s with Daniel DeLewis and Leonardo DiCaprio. It's a very long movie and I've watched it before so obviously it's not good for this list but you get the idea right. So you search for it, it brings up a list of those particular movies that match what you're searching for in this particular one. It's just that you add the watch list and it goes to your watch list. That's really all there is for it. Now let's go ahead and add a TV show. Let's say I want to watch NCIS and we can do that. We just go ahead and add watch list and then we'd add it to our TV series watch list. Now one thing I will say about this is that for some reason the adding of TV shows does take a little longer than the movies. I'm assuming this because it downloads all of the metadata for every single episode of that particular TV show. So the more seasons there are the longer it's going to take to download that data. You'll see here it's still actually downloading the NCIS stuff and that's been on TV for 20 years or some insane amount of time. So it's going to take a while to download that. I will just put that out there. It does take a while when you're doing the TV shows. That's basically all there is to this application. It allows you to add movies and TV shows to a list so that you can check them off once you've watched them. So I'll go ahead and close this and you can actually go into these movies and you'll see all the information you need about that movie. And then once you've watched it you can just hit Mark as watched. Now here's where we're going to come to the first feature that I'd like to see is that in order to see that you've watched something you have to be on the TV show or movies page to do so. So if we go back to the list gangs of New York still is in my list here of things to watch. It does. It has no like check mark on it like that says I've watched it. Nothing like that actually have to go in here to see that I've watched it. Now I would like to see one or two things either just a like a blue check mark that goes along the side to note that I've watched it or remove it from the list and add it to a already watched list or something that you can access in some other place in the application. That'd be awesome. Something that just removes it from the list of things that I need to watch because obviously I don't want to just be there and eventually I forget that I've watched it or something maybe and you know I just get confused. Avoid the clutter remove it from the list or at least denote it somehow so that it will you know say that I've watched it without having to go into the page itself. Now if we go into the TV series tab here and you click on the one of the series that you add to your watch list you can see that actually does download all of the information about every single episode of that series like all of them and then you can mark each one watched as you watch that particular episode. That's pretty cool because especially if you're going to sit down and bend something like NCIS that's has I don't know how many seasons is this that's 21 seasons. That's just first of all it's insane 458 episodes. You'd be watching this for a minute. You're obviously not going to do that all in one go. So you sit down maybe you watch the first season over the course of a weekend and each time you watch an episode you come here and click mark as watch that way you know which ones you've gotten to which ones you haven't. So that works out really well. And I think that for TV shows specifically this does a fantastic job because you can just see where you are. Here's another place where I'd like to see another feature added though is that a progress bar. So like up here along the like in the some of this blank blank space as you go through and hit mark as watch add a progress bar so I can see how far along in the series I actually am and maybe make it like a timeline so I have season you know one over here and the end of the season is over here and it's kind of has a green bar going along so I can see kind of as a visual representation of my progress through the season or the series where I'm at that'd be really freaking cool. So that's the second feature that I'd really like to see them add but as it is right now it's actually still really useful because you can just kind of scroll through and once you get through the entire season the markets watched button here for the season will turn to already watched or just watched right so that way you can see you done the whole season. Now let's briefly go ahead and take a look at the preferences. There's not a ton of preferences here. Basically what it does is allows you to turn an offline mode that will just disable some of the stuff that it fetches from the Internet. You can also change it to when it will update the frequency of the TMDB caching. So here's the thing. I'm not exactly sure what is downloaded and when it's downloaded. So if you've noticed this entire time they've actually been downloading something up here at the top and I'm not exactly sure what they're downloading so they it says they're still adding information on house which is just that was the first thing that I added and there's nothing here that they still need that it's all already here so I'm not sure what they're that they're actually that information they're downloading and I don't know if this means that it's downloading the entire TMDB database that'd be kind of insane because I'm assuming that's going to be gigabytes upon gigabytes of stuff so I'm assuming they're just downloading the stuff from the stuff that you add but then I have to question why what are they downloading so yeah if we go back to the preferences here we can see that it does have a cache of particular date of particular data that says take a booth with download download it in your preferred language selected below case not available it will fall back to us English only and then to the contents original language if neither are available it will resolve blank string so what it doesn't say again is what it says it provides localized metadata for most content so it looks like it's actually is downloading all of it which is just kind of insane it does allow you to clear the data if you want to but as you can see I've only had this open for I don't know maybe 20 minutes or so as I've been messing around with it and it's already downloaded almost 20 megabytes of stuff and that is just think about that for a little bit it's if you have over a period of time it could use quite a bit of space and I would worry that the more you add to this the more space it's going to take I mean is this thing going to end up taking like two or three gigabytes if you actually use it frequently I don't know it doesn't actually say is the problem is like I'm not sure exactly what precisely it's downloading it but it sounds like it's going to provide the entire database but if that's true is it going to really provide that because it sounds like that's going to be quite a bit of space so that's something that I do worry about but those are all the preferences that's all there is to it there are some key bindings and you can see those in traditional gtk application fashion you can't change them so if you want to alter them you can but there are just like six of them and that's about all there is to it so the last thing we probably should look at is the manually so if you wanted to add a piece of content that isn't in the database you you can add that manually along with the artwork and the title and the tagline all the stuff that you'd see in one that was in the database but from here right so you can do that for a movie or a tv show so the last thing that I want to talk about is something that I'd like to see is that I'd like to see them to add books because honestly I'm much more of a reader than I'm a watcher of things and the idea that I could have all that together along with the to be read for my books all in one application that'd be freaking awesome I mean like really really good but the it's I think it'd be really hard with books because I'm not sure that there's a database somehow somewhere out there like like there is for movies where you can just I mean good good reads maybe is a good option for it I don't know if they have even have an api i'm not a developer or anything like that so I don't know where they'd get that information but the adding books to this would be primo it'd be really really good um but as it is a fantastic little application that just allows you to keep track of what you want to watch and what you have watched and there are a few places where it can be better but overall a fantastic little application and I just wanted to share it with you today quickly because it is like I said something that some people could find useful if you're one of those people who want to keep track of the things that not only that you want to watch but that you have watched so so that is ticket booth if you have thoughts on this you can leave those in the comment section below I'd love to hear from you you can follow me on masters honor odyssey those links will be in the video description you can support me on patreon at patreon.com slash linuxcast you can also head on over to the merch shop where you'll find desk mats and t-shirts and hoodies and hats and all sorts of stuff over there all that stuff goes directly to support the channel and means more content for you guys for me you can find that at shop that the linuxcast.org thanks everybody who does support me on patreon and youtube you guys are all absolutely amazing without you the channel this would not be anywhere near where it is right now so thank you so very very much for your support again I truly do appreciate it you guys are awesome thanks everybody for watching I'll see you next time