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

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On 3/18/2020 at 7:09 PM, davide256 said:

Reaching the library size where I find myself occasionally buying (used) CD's of material I already have. I'm wondering if there is a good inventory

program out there I could run against my FLAC music library and check against the results on my iPhone when out shopping?

 

One simple solution is to synchronize your music folders to a cloud storage, but without the tracks (if you don't want to pay for all the storage). 

 

I use Google Drive, and can easily search for albums based on the folder name. Google Drive also automatically applies OCR to images and pdfs, extending search possibilities. 

 

Another simple solution is to use a music tagging application to export  information to a file. You can then sync that (or those) file to cloud storage. You'll find plenty of tagging apps that can generate a descriptive text file (I use MP3Tag on Windows).