Subj : Record stores
To   : Ogg
From : Nigel Reed
Date : Fri Oct 07 2022 01:42:22

  Re: Record stores
  By: Ogg to Nigel Reed on Wed Oct 05 2022 08:54:00

 > There once was a very fine app called Shelfie. With it, you
 > could take pictures of the SPINE of any book, and it would
 > produce a data-record of the cover, title, author, isbn code,
 > publisher, etc.  It was truly very clever and convenient.  I
 > could just take a picture of the books filed on a shelf (or
 > just a pile of books on the floor or lined up in a box in my
 > case) and it would produce a detailed list.

I setup a local MusicBrainz mirror and downloaded the Discogs database and used a script to import the xml files, then I wrote a PERL script that would look up the barcode or catalog number. I have a barcode scanner and it was pretty easy to rip through a bunch. Only problem is, I forgot which bunch and where they are lol.

I've got about 400 in my closet, a bookshelf full in the bedroom, several stacks in the hallway and a couple of huge boxes under the wife's desk so that's where my problem is. They're not sorted in any way and I don't really have room to do it until I'm going to do some kind of bubble sort lol.

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