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Last year I scanned my roughly 2000 CD covers so I could catalogue them using a photo management system. I went for digiKam as it supported hierarchies of keywords - composer, genre, forces etc. - but I have now become frustrated, as the thumbnails are a fixed size, OK for a medium resolution screen, but too small on a high res screen, and too large on low res.
Enter OneNote, courtesy of my Office 2010 Professional Plus!  2010? A tightwad? Moi? 
The CDs are organized in drawers, ranks and position in rank. CD 2F23-4 would be the second drawer, sixth rank, position 23 and is a four-disk set. With a notebook for each major genre - classical, jazz, folk etc. - a section for each rank, and a page for each CD the process is so simple it is unreal. Set up all the genres and sections you need, then in each section drag & drop each JPEG onto a new page, right-click and select 'Make text in image searchable' and job done. You can search at any level from all open notebooks down to a single page. The 'hits' are listed in page order on the right of the screen to click through. The filename of each JPEG is it's location, which I copy across as the OneNote page name.
The beauty of the system versus digiKam is that images may be automatically or manually sized and the OCR means you don't need keywords. Also, in the old system I only keyworded the principal performance, and so if some Mozart piece was used as a CD filler after, say, a Beethoven work, it was unlocatable. No more!
I have never touched OneNote before, but its adaptability is remarkable. Colour me impressed! 
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I was going to write something to catalogue my music - just to make it easier to find any specific song on whatever given media.
Problem is, the media were records and cassettes and this was approx 1983.
Somehow, I suspect the moment has now passed ...
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I have been threatening to catalogue my music for nearly as long. The main problem was working for living - at least that's my excuse for what was actually a fine display of procrastination! 
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FWIW, it took me nearly a decade of OneNote being available and included as part of Office before I finally found a good use for it. Now I can't really see myself without it.
Your use is perhaps a bit unusual, but then, there's no "wrong" way to use it, I suppose.
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I must confess that now I have started to use it, I can think of dozens of things I could have used it for in the last ten years. Pretty stupid of me really, not to check it out, as back in the late eighties I was a huge fan and heavy user of DOS Lotus Agenda for storing and linking random notes.
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Can you sort by color ?
I wish I could do that .
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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I've always known that OneNote had potential, but really only ever used it a couple of times for managing some smaller projects. Good job on finding an elegant no-code solution! 
As for cataloging music, I started a project a decade ago to do this with the intent being to build a website on the company webserver so that I could access my content across all devices from anywhere. Sort of a web-based personal jukebox. For album artwork, I let WMP do most of the work with a success rate of around 98% of finding the correct artwork via the 'Update Media' feature. Due to the way I setup the folders, I was able to link the album art to the album and store it in a database with all the tracks, artists, etc. using the MP3 tags. I lost interest in it when I was able to get a mobile device with decent storage and never finished the project. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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I am something of an audiophile, and I far prefer that music goes through as few stages as possible between the original and my ears. I didn't start to stream any music until I found a good source of classical music streamed in FLAC on the web. My system is rather analytical, and I can definitely hear the difference between that and MP3. As a result, I prefer to listen to the original CD, although I have ripped some my vinyl to FLAC.
Thus a decent CD catalogue becomes essential.
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Last week I went to Italy to program a robot cell...
All went very well and the job was finished as expected, but... My office 365 2 factor authentication decided to stop working, that left me without Outlook and Teams in my PC.
Arrived home and tried to get in touch with Microsoft through chat, they recommended me to change my admin password, which i did (Curiously I could not log in, but change the password, go figure). Then Office apps stopped working in my phone too.
Yesterday (Monday) I called them, explained them the situation, and they promised they would call me. They did it only to tell me that they could not solve it as I was the sole administrator. But that someone would call me soon.
Today (Tuesday) I called them again, same history, same answers... still no call.
So:
- 1 week without mail or Teams access.
- 2 days calling them.
- No answer.
Curiously my personal account works flawlessly.
It seems that if you travel your office 365 gets disconnected as a safety measure to avoid being hacked!
WT![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) !
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Google is just about as good.
When my primary laptop auto logs in to gmail from a new IP address, I get an email TO THAT DEVICE telling me a strange device has just logged in to my account. 
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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yes, but at least you can keep working... Now I am completely disconnected from my customers, and of course, I keep paying for that service.
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Joan M wrote: 1 week without mail or Teams access.
I would pay for that 
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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It's a feature!
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They have settings for that type of stuff so it may be that you enabled it without knowing it or maybe it's on by default.
Security is a pain.
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Maybe, sure it is on by default then, but 2 complete days without news from them?
WOW!
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I'm still avoiding 2FA everywhere I can, no matter how hard "they" try to convince me.
I'd rather live with the perceived increased risk than getting erroneously locked out due to some policies dreamt up by some overzealous admin who never fully thought through all scenarios.
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It is sad a big company like that can't really handle this gracefully.
them.
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I wish I could. But the user base at my company are not up to keeping their accounts secure nor are the up to NOT clicking on a link sent to them. Sooooo we have MFA
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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First time buying something on AliExpress... It came almost on time (maybe 10 days later than expected)...
The day after I got it from the post office the status of the parcel updated:
Sorry, parcel is delayed, estimated date of delivery is updated.
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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You can't just hold off buying until you can buy a bunch of things at once?
I've found some hard to find gear there, and I could pretty easily rack up $50 USD in items per time if I put a little effort into it.
Personally I can't give them up because them and even *gasp* bangood (as a last resort) are the only place I can order certain items
Real programmers use butterflies
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I have seen, but not tried, that AliExpress has the delivery option from within Europe. I assumed that was to circumvent import taxes?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Yes, some shops have "depots" in the EU so maybe there is still hope
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Impressive camera for the price! I have a need for several of them to monitor my 20 ac lot in the desert. Last week I had a break-in, costing thousand$ in stolen goods, and damaging my 40' container and 27' travel trailer. I can't be there most of the time, but I could use a cheap way to monitor and capture video of intruders. The cops took a report, but even though I've left multiple messages for an additional report (I found more missing), the cops never return calls, nor does anyone answer the phone. This could be a solution, if I can figure out how to use them. I've had very little luck interpreting Chinese documentation or getting live tech support for things made there.
Will Rogers never met me.
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