Basenji is a media indexing tool designed for easy and fast indexing of media collections. It currently supports indexing of removable media such as CDs and USB sticks and stores them as volume objects in a database. After being stored in this database, volumes can be browsed and searched through for specific files very quickly. Basenji has been developed with platform independence in mind right from the start, and presently consists of a GTK+ GUI frontend and a reusable library backend (VolumeDB) that implements the actual indexing, searching, and database logic.