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<blockquote data-quote="Guest 6801328" data-source="post: 7524112"><p>Just to flog that horse...</p><p></p><p>iTunes has a feature that allows you to rip from CD.</p><p></p><p>So a good parallel in D&DB would be a feature that lets you scan in content from your books using OCR. Well, really, it would make more sense to just do image recognition to confirm what it is, then just populate the content from storage. Given that iTunes used the Gracenote music database to recognize CDs* in order to add album information and track names, it's actually a pretty close analogue.</p><p></p><p>I would happily pay D&DB $5/month if it worked that way.</p><p></p><p>The argument that you can always type in your content manually to D&DB would be like saying that you're free put a microphone in front of your speakers and record things to iTunes.</p><p></p><p>No, wait, that would still be far simpler than typing in the PHB.</p><p></p><p>It would be like typing ones and zeroes into iTunes...or hexadecimal, for the power user...to upload your music.</p><p></p><p></p><p>*Total digression, but since metadata was never part of the CD format, the way Gracenote recognized which CD you loaded was by looking at (almost) unique signature of the track length and order. Kinda clever hack, really.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Guest 6801328, post: 7524112"] Just to flog that horse... iTunes has a feature that allows you to rip from CD. So a good parallel in D&DB would be a feature that lets you scan in content from your books using OCR. Well, really, it would make more sense to just do image recognition to confirm what it is, then just populate the content from storage. Given that iTunes used the Gracenote music database to recognize CDs* in order to add album information and track names, it's actually a pretty close analogue. I would happily pay D&DB $5/month if it worked that way. The argument that you can always type in your content manually to D&DB would be like saying that you're free put a microphone in front of your speakers and record things to iTunes. No, wait, that would still be far simpler than typing in the PHB. It would be like typing ones and zeroes into iTunes...or hexadecimal, for the power user...to upload your music. *Total digression, but since metadata was never part of the CD format, the way Gracenote recognized which CD you loaded was by looking at (almost) unique signature of the track length and order. Kinda clever hack, really. [/QUOTE]
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