CDLens: Music CD Scanner

Scan any CD in seconds. CDLens identifies the release, shows market value, grades condition, and catalogs your music collection — Japanese imports included.

CDLens turns your phone into a CD scanner, identifier, and price guide for music collectors. Point the camera at any compact disc — the jewel case cover, the disc face, or the EAN barcode strip — and CDLens matches it to a Discogs release in seconds. See the market value, grade the condition, and build a CD collection worth tracking.

★ WHY CD COLLECTORS USE CDLENS

• Identify CDs you can't recognize — old, unlabeled, foreign-language, Japanese imports, or buried in a box of bargain-bin finds

• Never buy a duplicate — every scan saves to a searchable music library you can browse offline

• Know what your music is worth — live Discogs Marketplace prices for current CD valuation

• Grade condition the right way — Goldmine grading scale built in (M / NM / VG+ / VG / G+ / G / F / P) for media and case

• Sort your collection by label, year, format, or catalog number — every release tagged with full Discogs metadata

• Track a wishlist of CDs you want to buy

• Used CD value and second-hand pricing from the live Discogs catalog

★ HOW THE CD SCANNER WORKS

CDLens runs a three-tier identification cascade so it works on the messiest cases too:

1. Barcode read — on-device EAN-13 / UPC-A scan reads the barcode strip on the rear inlay and pulls the exact Discogs release in milliseconds

2. Cover or disc match — if no barcode is visible (front cover, digipak, loose disc, Japanese paper sleeve), AI vision identifies the release from artwork or label print

3. Discogs catalog cascade — backend scores candidates by catalog number, artist + title, label, and year proximity to lock the right CD release every time

Just point and scan. No manual lookup, no typing catalog numbers, no Googling cover art. Identify a CD in under three seconds.

★ WHO IT'S FOR

Music collectors building a CD library worth tracking. Record-shop diggers running through bargain bins. Estate sale buyers checking what's actually worth carrying home. Long-time collectors finally cataloging the bookshelf. Sellers pricing used CDs before listing. Japanese-import enthusiasts tracking their wishlist of OOP releases. Inheritors trying to figure out what mom's CD tower is worth.

If you own more CDs than you can name from memory, CDLens turns the pile into a searchable music library.

★ COLLECTION MANAGEMENT

• Multiple collections — group by mood, label, decade, room, format

• Total value tracking — see your library's current Discogs valuation at a glance

• Per-collection value — every sub-collection shows record count and combined worth

• Full metadata — label, catalog number, country, year, format, condition (media + case graded separately)

• Notes — keep purchase price, where you bought it, anything else

• Export to CSV — take your data anywhere, anytime

• Wishlist — track CDs you want to buy with price alerts

★ WHAT MAKES CDLENS DIFFERENT

Most music collection apps don't focus on CDs. CDLens was built CD-first:

• Optimized for jewel cases, digipaks, Japanese paper sleeves, and loose discs from the ground up

• Format-locked Discogs queries (CD-only releases) so reissues on other formats don't pollute matches

• Condition grading for media and case separately — because a mint disc in a cracked case is its own grade

• Used CD valuations and second-hand pricing from live Discogs Marketplace data

• Camera optimized for the small print on CD inlays — auto-focus tuned for barcode + cover art

CDLens is free to scan and save a starter collection. CDLens Pro unlocks:

• Unlimited scans per day

• Unlimited collection size

• CSV / data export

• Advanced filters and sort

• Priority backend matching

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