Barcode number
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The barcode number is a number that identifies many commerical products including music albums.
It appears on the product packaging both encoded as a barcode and below it as text e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:UPC-A-036000291452.png . When transcribing this text, omit any spaces and dashes, e.g. 8427328130431.
Barcode numbers consist of 12, 13 or 14 digits. All can be represented as a 14-digit GTIN and hence as a 14-digit TIN, by adding sufficient zeros to the left.
On a music album, the barcode can be found
- on the back cover, else/and
- on one of the CDs itself, often printed quite small, else
- not at all, in the case of an album for which a barcode number was not assigned e.g. by a self-publishing artists. Sometimes a numberless album has been republished with a number.
Barcodes for many albums can also be obtained from tango.info and other sources as described in GTIN (see EAN).