Subj : Does anyone buy CDs any more?
To   : Ogg
From : Nelgin
Date : Tue Oct 05 2021 19:51:06

  Re: Does anyone buy CDs any more?
  By: Ogg to Nelgin on Mon Oct 04 2021 20:13:00

 > I always thought it was kinda cool how programs such as iTunes
 > could fetch the CD title/tracks/cover from imdb ..and therefore
 > make it very easy to build a printable list.  But there still
 > remains doing that for each and every CD.  I would imagine that
 > the process would take atleast 2 minutes per CD.  At 3000 CDs,
 > that's 10hrs of work not counting interruptions or a failed
 > search.

Well with Discogs you can scan a barcode and add it to your collection but then you have to determine which release you have since different versions could have the same barcode. It sometimes takes a little more than 2 minutes because you have to look at the tiny etchings on the disc close to the center. Sometimes it's a different book or different song listings.

 > A few years ago there was a really cool app that allowed one to
 > take a picture of a book's spine, identify the book and produce
 > a database entry for it on your phone. It was called BitLit and
 > then Shelfie.  You could even take a photo of a stack of book
 > spines and it would return a list.  Very slick.  Something like
 > that would be helpful for your CD piles!  :D

If I could take a picture of them, that'd be great but it'd have to be a high quality one. To give you some idea, in the hall I have 9 stacks of CDs ranging in height from 52 to 58 inches. 52 in = 132cm. It's 58 inches wide. That's 147cm.

Then I have stacks in my walkin closet and stacks on my shelves in the bedroom. I have a self full in my office. I don't have more in here because that's where all my 7" singles are, something like 500+ of them.

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