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Date:	Fri, 8 Aug 2003 10:52:29 PDT7
From:	Peter Skye <pskye@peterskye.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Dynamic Data Exchange?

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Tom Brown wrote:
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> I would like to do this by scanning the UPC code on the CD case

About three years ago I wanted to do the same thing with my magazines (I
used to get about 200 each month). But I was told that the UPC code is
different on every issue and that the UPC codes (at least then) weren't
available over the Internet, and so I dropped the project. (I don't
remember if I actually checked the month-to-month UPC codes or not to
see if in fact they did change.)

When I was in music, a lot of albums were remastered and sometimes the
album graphics were changed. For example, an album which was released
before any of the songs were "hits" might be remastered to put the hit
song at the beginning of side one and the album graphics changed to show
"Includes The Hit Song 'DUCK POWER'" on the cover. The UPC might be
changed depending on accounting practices and royalty structure.

So the first thing you need to do is find out if you can get the UPC
data, remembering that there might be multiple UPC codes for the same
album.

I can suggest an alternative way of building your CD inventory: use the
CD Database (cddb.com). There are several available programs which
access it. I've never used any of them but I believe at least one is
Java based and I might have seen an OS/2 program on Hobbes (though it
might have been the Java program). As for scanning the UPC codes, the
CD Database may have the manufacturer's stock number.

Caveat: The CD Database contains user-supplied info and thus contains
errors (typos, spelling and perhaps some more serious stuff).

- Peter

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