Congratulations on the purchase of your BBC8. Simple on the outside, complex on the inside.

Make it your own.

  • Speed/Direction

    By default, your BBC8 scrolls from right to left to allow a natural English reading direction; left to right. You can however change this direction for a bit of whimsy. The dial position represents the scroll direction. With the dial in the upmost center, your BBC8 will be at its slowest scroll speed. Turn your dial fully counter clockwise for the highest right to left speed. Turning it to the full most clockwise position will set your scroll speed to the fastest left to right speed.

  • Tones/Sounds

    By default, your BBC8 will generate a tone after each successful scan and when you power the device on. You can enable and disable these tone at any time and choose from one of three tole frequencies by scanning the appropriate barcode.

    Tone Codes

  • Light/Illumination

    By default, your BBC8 will detect when the environment around it changes so that it is not coninually scanning. It can trigger a white light so that the barcodes will be brightly illuminated and can be easily read in dark environments. This isn’t always necessary in all environments and can be disabled. You can also enable/disable the red aiming laser. Neither of which are necessarily required (based on your environment) to be visible for the BBC8 to operate effectively.

    Environmental Light Codes

Your best option is to create one. Chances are your album does have a barcode now that everything demands one, we just have to figure out what it is. The easiest and quickest way is to open Google http://google.com

Enter the following phrase replacing the album and artist name with what you are looking for: What is the barcode for the vinyl album Anthology of Bread, by Bread?

Usually Google AI, will display this information right at the top of the AI response window;
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If not, keep searching. There are a lot of online record sales sites that will have it.

Now you need to generate a barcode. There are a lot of free online barcode generator tools to do that as well. Again, use Google search for one. A good example we found was
https://barcode-generator.org

Select “code 128” as the type of code you want to generate, paste your generated number in the field, then click “create barcode”.

Download/screenprint your barcode and print it on to a label or card.
Place the card or label in/on your album.

My album doesn’t have a bar code, Now what?

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