{"id":274,"date":"2003-04-24T20:35:34","date_gmt":"2003-04-24T20:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2003\/04\/music_collector\/"},"modified":"2003-04-24T20:35:34","modified_gmt":"2003-04-24T20:35:34","slug":"music_collector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/music_collector\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Collector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just returned to a program that I first got interested in a couple of years ago &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectorz.com\/music\/\">Music Collector<\/a>. The idea is that it keeps a database of all my CD music (and indeed any other music that I have). The really clever part is that it can batch scan CD TOCs and then query them with a CDDB database to fill out all the album and track details.<br \/>\nOf course this is still quite a big job. So far I&#8217;ve scanned over 300 discs, but I have probably twice as many to go (I seem to have accumulated quite a lot of music over the years).<br \/>\nBut doing this is very therapeutic, since there is so much music that I never listen to. There is also the fact that I find I have music that I&#8217;d forgotten buying. Indeed there are a handful of duplicate albums in total.<br \/>\nThe one thing I&#8217;d like to do with the data when it&#8217;s complete is to host it on this site somehow and allow it to be searched using PHP and MySQL. I&#8217;ve hunted their forum, and although others are interested in doing it, no-one seems to have done so yet. I have to battle with the exports that the program allows, and it seems I&#8217;m going to have to learn some of the finer points of XML, as well as PHP and MySQL. Could be quite uphill.<br \/>\nIn the meantime, let&#8217;s continue scanning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just returned to a program that I first got interested in a couple of years ago &#8211; Music Collector. The idea is that it keeps a database of all my CD music (and indeed any other music that I have). The really clever part is that it can batch scan CD TOCs and then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}