Club MacMost Exclusive: Catalog Your Physical Media With This Bar Code Scanning Shortcut

You can use a fairly simple Shortcut on your iPhone to quickly scan the bar codes on your DVDs, CDs, books and other items to save a list of them into a Numbers spreadsheet.

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Comments: 2 Responses to “Catalog Your Physical Media With This Bar Code Scanning Shortcut”

    Stephen A York
    2 weeks ago

    Gary -
    I would love to be able to scan in my CD music collection. Could it be possible to read the bar code from the package or disc and build a list of the thousands of CDs I have with the artist and album information displayed? Steve

    2 weeks ago

    Stephen: Yes, this should work. You'll need to see what info is available and grab the artist and album name from it. Probably a lot of manual clean-up, but still easier than typing.

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