dash - · slash / · dot . · hash # · star * · plus + · equals = · triangle △ · square □ · circle ○ · diamond ◇ · bracket ( and, said again, ) · space types a space.
Named stamps type as Discogs writes them: “Sonic Arts logo” (or symbol, stamp, mark) ⊏◯⊐ · “anvil” (Capitol Scranton) [Anvil symbol] · “Monarch logo” (or “MR logo”, “MR in a circle”) [MR logo] · “Specialty logo” (or “SRC logo”) SRC · “Keel logo” (or “air force logo”) ⊂◯⊃ · “IAM triangle” (or “triangle I A M”) IAM · a letter in a circle: “circled U” (or “U in a circle”) Ⓤ, likewise K Ⓚ, H Ⓗ and P ℗.
For letters it keeps mishearing, use the phonetic alphabet — “alpha… bravo… charlie…” → A B C. It stays listening through pauses; tap again to stop, then fix anything by typing.
Grade
Marks (tap any that apply)
Matrix/Runout photos (optional)
Hold the barcode on the back cover inside the box. It reads by itself and saves.
These files changed on this phone and in Drive. Choose which copy to keep for each, then continue. Drive’s copy leaves Drive as it is (a typed entry is copied onto this phone); this phone’s copy is sent to Drive. Nothing is sent until you continue.
Two photos - the front cover and a label - go to your appraiser's sheet, which reads the record off them, looks up its sales history and tells you whether the asking price is reasonable. More photos make the answer surer.
This is what was read off your photos. Fix anything that is wrong and add what you know, then confirm.
The dead wax tells most pressings apart: type what is etched or stamped in the runout boxes above, then check again - the same photos, a few seconds.
The full check takes a few minutes and runs while the app is open; close it and it carries on next time. The row on your appraiser's sheet updates when it finishes.
Check a record - with your appraiser
Your appraiser gives you a check address; your photos go there and the answer comes back. Three things to set up, once.
Step by step
- The check address. Ask your appraiser for it - a long link ending in
/exec. Paste it below and tap Test. - Your Google account. Tell your appraiser which Google account you will use; the first check asks you to sign in with it (your email address only - nothing in your Drive is touched). Only accounts the appraiser has listed are answered.
- Your reading key. The reading of your photos and the full check run on an Anthropic account you pay for, at a few cents a record. Go to console.anthropic.com, create an account, add a payment method under Billing (a $5 top-up lasts a long time), then API keys → Create key. Copy it (it starts with
sk-ant-) and paste it below. It is stored only on this phone and sent with each check. - Sales history. Nothing to set up: the price history comes through your appraiser's own memberships. If the answer says the history could not be checked, tell your appraiser.
Leave it empty only if your appraiser has said their sheet will cover the cost.
Google Drive direct upload (optional)
The first upload into a folder offers to share that folder only, read-only, with this address, so the archive can collect your photos without you arranging anything in Drive. You stay the owner and can stop sharing at any time from Drive. Leave it empty and nothing is ever shared.
Advanced: use your own Google project
Only needed if this app came without Google details built in, or you want uploads going through a Cloud project you control. Leave every box below empty to use whatever the app ships with.
- Go to console.cloud.google.com and create a project (any name).
- APIs & Services → Library → enable Google Drive API (and Google Picker API if you want Link…).
- APIs & Services → OAuth consent screen → External. The app asks only for the non-sensitive
drive.filescope, so you can Publish app straight to production with no verification review — otherwise every user must be added by hand as a Test user and will see an “unverified app” warning. - Credentials → Create credentials → OAuth client ID → type Web application.
- Under Authorized JavaScript origins add the address where this app is hosted (e.g.
https://yourname.github.io). - Copy the Client ID (ends in
.apps.googleusercontent.com) and paste it below. - For Link… only: Credentials → API key, plus the project number from the Cloud console Dashboard.
Crop training data
Each upload goes to the default folder unless you pick another on the save screen. New folders are created in Drive on first upload; removing one here doesn’t touch Drive.
Link… is only for a folder that already exists in Drive. You normally don’t need it — let the app create its own folder and share that, above. Link… points an entry at a folder that already exists — including one someone else owns and shared with you. Use it whenever the folder was made by hand or is shared, because this app can only see folders it created itself and would otherwise build a second, private folder of the same name. Everything you upload into a linked folder is visible to whoever that folder is shared with.
Photo output
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