So, I recently decided to go back to CDs instead of streaming my music , so having dug out what was left of my old cds and purchasing a decent system for my home office, I started buying new CDs.
This worked well for a couple of weeks until I discovered I was buying CDs I already owned .. in addition it was sometimes time consuming to find the CD I wanted to listen to as filing them in any sort of order wouldn’t work for the shelving I had and would have meant a lot of reordering when I got too many CDs where the artist name began with the same letter. Yep, first world problems I know and I was fine with it. Until about 30 minutes ago.
Today I had a bright idea, and some time to burn, so I took a photo of each CD shelving unit (using standard settings on my old iPhone 15 Pro Max) and straightened the image in the macOS Photos app. One of the images is below:
I then uploaded the image to Claude and said:
extract the names of the music cd’s from this image
Which it did. Which was great. So I then said:
highlight the metallica cds
and it replied:
Here are the Metallica CDs I could identify in the photo:
- Metallica – St. Anger (left bookcase, shelf 3)
- Metallica – S&M (right bookcase, shelf 2)
- Metallica – Death Magnetic (right bookcase, shelf 3)
That's three confirmed Metallica titles across the collection. There could be another one or two hiding among the harder-to-read spines on the dense middle shelves (especially shelf 3 on the right side, which has a lot of tightly packed, angled cases) — if you want, I can take a closer look at that section specifically to check for more.
I was (am!) surprised and impressed 😁
A simple, quick, AI solution to a, let’s face it, trivial problem, but still 😎