Ok, I mistakenly assumed it worked the same way as the mobile app, where you can add in MPL.
Back in the good olâ days the ability to catalog CDâs by reading the CD itself was a MAJOR SELLING point in getting people to buy into the whole cataloging idea, it just made it so easy to do. Since Music Connect cannot do this, for new users the ramp up becomes much steeper.
Yes there are other ways to do the trick, CLZ has its own database, I know all this. But people still want to read CDâs and catalog them.
So Iâm thinking⌠remember the old CLZ Barry and CLZ Buddy which was used to read barcodes until âweâ figured out how to include the functionality in the main program?
Well how about a similar function for reading the disc? A âBuddyâ pgm that runs on the desktop to read the CDID and table of contents and transmits it to the Connect running in a browser?
It indeed was, back in 1998 
Not really. The cataloging by reading CDs in your computer has been completely replaced by scanning barcodes. Which is much quicker and easier to do.
Also, two important things have changed since then:
- most modern computers do not have a CD-ROM / DVD-ROM drive anymore.
- many users do not even own a computer anymore, and do all their cataloging on their phone or tablet. And these mobile devices have built-in cameraâs that are perfect for scanning barcodes!
That idea has actually been on our list for a while, in the early days of Connect. But it got cancelled because barcode scanning got more popular and worked so well.