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CD Ripper - Use EAN/UPC barcodes for Discogs lookup
Being about half way through re-ripping my CD collection a few "Nice to Haves" have come to mind. One, however, would be an awesome improvement for me.
I'm currently going through my CD singles collection. Not all CDs are correctly recognised, and quite often the wrong album art is selected. The manual metadata search quite often gets things correct, but it's not perfect.
Most CDs have a barcode on them, and you can pick up a usb HID barcode scanner for nothing these days. I've found in the Discogs Web interface (Also, in their API) using the barcode to search is incredibly reliable getting the exact release you have in your hand. Currently, if I need to manually modify a CD, I go to Discogs, scan (or type) the barcode, and I copy/paste the details into the ripper tag editor.
So, it would be great to have some way of typing or scanning a barcode (Scanners essentially "type" the numbers in to what ever control is focussed, then "press" Enter). Doing a Discogs search will then retrieve the metadata (100% success rate from my experience). It would also be a bonus if the barcode was written to the log/m3u/somewhere for back referencing.
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I'm currently going through my CD singles collection. Not all CDs are correctly recognised, and quite often the wrong album art is selected. The manual metadata search quite often gets things correct, but it's not perfect.
Most CDs have a barcode on them, and you can pick up a usb HID barcode scanner for nothing these days. I've found in the Discogs Web interface (Also, in their API) using the barcode to search is incredibly reliable getting the exact release you have in your hand. Currently, if I need to manually modify a CD, I go to Discogs, scan (or type) the barcode, and I copy/paste the details into the ripper tag editor.
So, it would be great to have some way of typing or scanning a barcode (Scanners essentially "type" the numbers in to what ever control is focussed, then "press" Enter). Doing a Discogs search will then retrieve the metadata (100% success rate from my experience). It would also be a bonus if the barcode was written to the log/m3u/somewhere for back referencing.
Thanks for your time