Post talking thinking

A bit more than a week since I chatted on behalf of SCANPI to the overly populated Oxford Geek Night and some thoughts have occurred. In general the talk went well, the story was told, and the laughs seemed to arrive at the relevant moments. The presented slidy now is available on the OGN site, or here.

1. Make SCANPI talk to Spotify instead of looking on local machine. One might need a paid for Spotify in order to actually play your collection but, would avoid the need to digitise everything before you scan it?
2. Make SCANPI talk to the many and various somewhat dodgy MP3 repositories in order to go and get (if it can’t find) and make local copy = similar gain in lack of need to digitise everything, but unfortunately *possibly* illegal?
3. Make SCANPI talk to google play, iTunes or Amazon music if you happen to have digitised your collection onto their service?
4. The man who demo’d a PI which banged things might be a partner for a bad idea – scan -> music details -> passed to the banging thing to play it?

More on 1) and a bit of 2) - Spotify has an API and a terms of use - specifically, one must NOT...

 use the Metadata in any way or on any website that
 that is associated or promotes, encourages, facilitates
 or condones the illegal or unauthorized use or sharing
 of audio and/or audiovisual content;

Definitely a stopper for 2), but not necessarily for 1) then.

It'll be time to make some form of action where there is only thinking at the moment. We'll tell you when that happens - or shout (via the usual means) if there's something else that you feel we should look at.