On 3/4/19 8:20 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
On Mon, 4 Mar 2019, Dick Steffens wrote:
At this time, nothing. I don't plan to dispose of the LPs, cassettes, or
CDs, so if I really want to, I can always find them to read them.
Okay. I'd like to sell my vinyl collection after digitizing them but
need to
find a suitable process to capture the information associated with each.
There are only two things I can think of, and neither is quick and easy.
1. Scan the liner notes. The biggest problem here is the size of an LP
cover. Not too many home or office scanners have a big enough bed for
that. You'd probably have to do at least two scans and blend them with
the GIMP or similar.
2. Transcribe the liner notes. Also not a quick process, but has the
advantage of letting you collect only the information you want.
If you discover a better way I'll be interested in what you come up
with. A number of years ago I created an HTML/PHP/MySQL setup on my home
network that resided on the same machine as the .mp3 collection. I don't
recall the HTML I used to send the command "play" to the machine, but
the idea was that from any web browser on any machine in the house I
could cause music on the machine in the living room to play music that
was fed to the stereo in the living room. Anyway, the plan at the time
was to put the liner notes into the database so I could look at them
from the web browser, too. I never got around to doing that. I'm
thinking about recreating that PHP/MySQL system again. I might have a
copy of the old one somewhere, but it was many machines ago. I think it
was my first Linux machine, which I installed from the book, /Linux
Weekend Crash Course/. As I recall it was Red Hat 7. That book is still
available on Amazon, both new and used!
--
Regards,
Dick Steffens
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