How do you avoid buying CD's you already have?

[bluesman]

On 3/19/2020 at 1:17 AM, davide256 said:

mmm, don't think Roon does this.

The Roon website says somewhere that it’s in development for future implementation.  I also use JRiver for remote streaming, both via JRemote and Panel, depending on which mobile device is handy at the time.  
 

The only problem with relying on my file lists to know if I already have something is that about 1% of my thousands of rips didn’t end up detectable by JRiver (or Roon) because of tag or typo issues.  I’ve found and fixed some, but others ended up as “track X” etc in folders with weird names like “-“.  So I know I have some rips that haven’t yet made it to prime time.

[bluesman]

1 hour ago, davide256 said:

I wonder if Discogs supports a bar code scanner for CD info capture?

You could probably download a barcode scan app like barcodetopc to your phone and use a code search like barcodelookup.com to populate your list. Then you could just look at your list on your phone to see if you already have whatever you’ve found before buying it.