Stream a Vinyl Album by Taking a Snapshot of Its Cover With This App
For a while, I was obsessed with buying vinyl. My mom let me have a large cabinet turntable that lived in our living room as a child, and once I brought the 500lb turntable to my house, I decided to listen to it as much as possible.
Many artists release their new albums on vinyl because it’s trendy. For them, you know what you are getting yourself into. For those random finds of little-known thrift stores, your outcome may not be as predictable, and in most cases, you don’t have a place to take a pre-purchase test drive record.
A new web application called Record Player makes this possible. With it, you can take a photo of the front of that album and it will find the album on Spotify (you need a Spotify account for this to work) for you to stream locally.
All this magic happens thanks to the Google Cloud Vision API and Spotify API.
Yes, you can just find the album on Spotify yourself, and no, that doesn’t tell you that the record in your hand in the store is so scratched up that you can never listen to it – but it is. pretty awesome. It can also come in handy when you just want to listen to something you have at home, but don’t want to run an old turntable to make it happen.
Take a look here .