Calibre for CDs?

johnwhelan · 07-04-2025, 06:10 PM

Just an ideal thought, it works fine for books but is there a version for CDs? Ideally one that I can scan the bar code and have it find the info in the way I can do for books?

Thanks John

Bradles · 07-04-2025, 07:30 PM

LibraryThing has good support for CDs. I just added this by barcode:

For best results, use a music source, such as Amazon UK Music.

LibraryThing has Android and iOS apps that support barcodes using phone camera. I didn't have much luck though.

See this thread on LT for a bit more detail:

https://www.librarything.com/topic/325738

PS: I'm not affiliated with LT; just a happy user of many years.

PPS: I was just reading a post on another forum about using Jellyfin (a well-known media server and player) for serving books. Funny, that.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=368857

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tomsem · 07-05-2025, 01:58 PM

You might look at this:

https://clz.com/music

Quote:

Catalog your CDs and vinyl records
- Keep track of your music collection and wish list
Use the mobile app or the web-based software (or both!)

- Automatic album details, track lists & cover art
Just search our online music database by barcode or title

- Over 4 million CD / vinyl barcodes recognized
Guaranteed 94% success rate on your barcode searches!

johnwhelan · 07-05-2025, 03:47 PM

I'd prefer to keep my information on my local machine.

CLZ sounds functional but $x a year?

My bar code scanner works fine for ISBNs but not apparently for CDs at least the couple I tried. I suspect it will stay a dream.

Cheerio John

johnwhelan · 07-05-2025, 03:56 PM

I lied, holding the bar code scanner slightly differently I did manage to scan the bar code. Dropping the bar code numbers into Amazon pulls up the CD.

Calibre tells me the number is not an ISBN. So it would seem to be a matter of using the number to look up the details somewhere. Some sort of API? A plugin for Calibre?

Cheerio John

johnwhelan · 07-05-2025, 04:26 PM

Exact Audio Copy has a look up feature for CDs.

GnuDB.org appears to be a source of data.

John

ownedbycats · 07-06-2025, 04:30 PM

I use MusicBee. All local machine, can rip CDs and identify them and sort into a user-defined folder structure. no barcode to my knowledge, but album auto-tagger:

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Sadly I think CDDB/Gracenote/FreeDB/whatever its called shut down a few years ago.

PeterT · 07-06-2025, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by ownedbycats

I use MusicBee. All local machine, can rip CDs and identify them and sort into a user-defined folder structure. no barcode to my knowledge, but album auto-tagger:

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Sadly I think CDDB/Gracenote/FreeDB/whatever its called shut down a few years ago.

It looks though like GnuDB is still there.

johnwhelan · 07-07-2025, 01:46 PM

I have a couple of thousand CDs, mainly classical and they work best as physical CDs even .opus isn't that wonderful, and .MP3 doesn't cut it. I own fair number of physical books as well which I keep details of in Calibre. It's basically being able to scan the bar codes on the physical CDs I'm after.

Thanks for the input though.

Cheerio John

Dal Bhat · 07-07-2025, 08:32 PM

https://www.discogs.com/

Discogs can search by barcode and will tell you pretty much everything you want to know about what's on a CD.

johnwhelan · 07-08-2025, 03:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dal Bhat

https://www.discogs.com/

Discogs can search by barcode and will tell you pretty much everything you want to know about what's on a CD.

I think I agree with you but grabbing that information and shoving it in a local database remains a slight problem.

Thanks for the thought.

Cheerio John

07-04-2025, 06:10 PM	#1
johnwhelan Zealot Posts: 116 Karma: 475752 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Kobo Touch, Cybook Gen 3, Google Nexus7, LG V20, Kobo Clara HD	Calibre for CDs? Just an ideal thought, it works fine for books but is there a version for CDs? Ideally one that I can scan the bar code and have it find the info in the way I can do for books? Thanks John

07-04-2025, 07:30 PM	#2
Bradles Zealot Posts: 111 Karma: 35586 Join Date: Nov 2020 Location: Perth, Western Australia Device: Apple Books & Kobo Libra H20	LibraryThing has good support for CDs. I just added this by barcode: For best results, use a music source, such as Amazon UK Music. LibraryThing has Android and iOS apps that support barcodes using phone camera. I didn't have much luck though. See this thread on LT for a bit more detail: https://www.librarything.com/topic/325738 PS: I'm not affiliated with LT; just a happy user of many years. PPS: I was just reading a post on another forum about using Jellyfin (a well-known media server and player) for serving books. Funny, that. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=368857 -- Attached Thumbnails Last edited by Bradles; 07-04-2025 at 07:38 PM. Reason: Jellyfin

07-06-2025, 04:30 PM	#7
ownedbycats Custom User Title Posts: 10,975 Karma: 75337983 Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Canada Device: Kobo Libra H2O, formerly Aura HD	I use MusicBee. All local machine, can rip CDs and identify them and sort into a user-defined folder structure. no barcode to my knowledge, but album auto-tagger: Sadly I think CDDB/Gracenote/FreeDB/whatever its called shut down a few years ago. Last edited by ownedbycats; 07-06-2025 at 04:42 PM.

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07-05-2025, 03:47 PM	#4
johnwhelan Zealot Posts: 116 Karma: 475752 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Kobo Touch, Cybook Gen 3, Google Nexus7, LG V20, Kobo Clara HD	I'd prefer to keep my information on my local machine. CLZ sounds functional but $x a year? My bar code scanner works fine for ISBNs but not apparently for CDs at least the couple I tried. I suspect it will stay a dream. Cheerio John

07-05-2025, 03:56 PM	#5
johnwhelan Zealot Posts: 116 Karma: 475752 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Kobo Touch, Cybook Gen 3, Google Nexus7, LG V20, Kobo Clara HD	I lied, holding the bar code scanner slightly differently I did manage to scan the bar code. Dropping the bar code numbers into Amazon pulls up the CD. Calibre tells me the number is not an ISBN. So it would seem to be a matter of using the number to look up the details somewhere. Some sort of API? A plugin for Calibre? Cheerio John

07-05-2025, 04:26 PM	#6
johnwhelan Zealot Posts: 116 Karma: 475752 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Kobo Touch, Cybook Gen 3, Google Nexus7, LG V20, Kobo Clara HD	Exact Audio Copy has a look up feature for CDs. GnuDB.org appears to be a source of data. John

07-07-2025, 01:46 PM	#9
johnwhelan Zealot Posts: 116 Karma: 475752 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: Kobo Touch, Cybook Gen 3, Google Nexus7, LG V20, Kobo Clara HD	I have a couple of thousand CDs, mainly classical and they work best as physical CDs even .opus isn't that wonderful, and .MP3 doesn't cut it. I own fair number of physical books as well which I keep details of in Calibre. It's basically being able to scan the bar codes on the physical CDs I'm after. Thanks for the input though. Cheerio John

07-07-2025, 08:32 PM	#10
Dal Bhat Connoisseur Posts: 50 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2024 Device: Kindle 11th Gen	https://www.discogs.com/ Discogs can search by barcode and will tell you pretty much everything you want to know about what's on a CD.