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Re: [LUG] Barcode scanners

 

On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 11:36 +0100, Grant Sewell wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 09:37:40 +0100
> Rob Beard wrote:
> 
> > On 31/07/11 09:03, Neil Winchurst wrote:
> > > Simon Waters wrote:



> I wonder if you could tie a few tools together.
> 
> Read barcode data (which is normally an EAN-13 code - just a bunch of
> numbers), discover what CD this corresponds to, pump this into some form
> of CDDB/FreeDB query and store the returned track data into a database.
> 
> There is a website that seems to allow you to lookup EAN codes - and
> helpfully, it would seem that all they do is plonk the EAN into the
> URL, such as:
>   http://www.upcdatabase.com/item/7321902174921
> 
> There may be some tools that can utilise this website, or if not a
> little bit of HTML parsing should be able to pull out the returned info.
> 
> Grant.
> 
it's on the Android 

take a pic of the barcode and volia!

but you still need a Database 

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