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CD Ripper - Use EAN/UPC barcodes for Discogs lookup

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  • Chinners

    • Jan 2025
    • 1

    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.

    Thanks for your time
  • Boffy

    • Aug 2023
    • 41

    #2
    Super excited about this function in the newest update!
    Thanks for suggesting. I have been wanting this functionality for some quite some time myself.

    I'm going to piggy back this suggestion, and add a request for a similar function in Batch Ripper.

    I'd like to scan all barcodes in the same order the CD's are fed to my autoloader.
    Does the barcode have a tag?
    The plan is to have batch ripper use the provided barcodes, and name the folders with such a tag.
    Alternatively I've been thinking about external scripting, I just don't know how exactly to go about this yet.
    It seems that the barcode scan could save me some trouble, especially if it had a designated tag.

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