Discogs

Scubadevils

www.discogs.com

I don't know how many years discogs has been around but it seems a long time since I first started using it and its by far my most visited site, a really brilliant database of music and it continues to get better all the time.

Whether I'm researching old or new music, looking into an artists back catalogue, reading up on a new or old label, planning to spend a few quid on new music... whatever, if it relates to music, I use discogs in some shape or form. The ability to enter an artists name and then see every release they have had, every label, every compilation, album or mix they have featured on, aliases they operate under, other production work etc etc, love it. I have yet to add all my vinyl to it but getting there slowly - I do automatically add any new purchases immediately - its great then to have the ability to import your entire collection to Excel, handy for insurance purposes etc also.

Some of the latest changes that have added are excellent, they have album images now as part of the search results and also youtube links at the bottom of the page - for example, the link below to 'Burger/Ink' now includes two videos from youtube which I added a few minutes ago, another fantastic aspect in that the site is mainly user driven.

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Burger+%2F+Ink

Everyone here uses it I assume?! I can safely say that in my opinion it is by far the best music website, nothing comes near it that I have seen.

Anima

Yeah all the time. Its such a great idea for a site, simple but really effective.

Fair play to them.

Ddisco

Yeah , agree. Brilliant Site. Essential for any serious vinyl collector.

FLYNN-DOG

Yeah, great website, have it bookmarked...good shout felix

Jay D

I joined it a couple of years ago and wasn't able to submit my collection and haven't bothered too much since. Bought twice on it, Chris Liebing - Stigmata and Slacker Fusion.

seannash

they dont handle digital releases too good.i had one person contact me about my stuff not being up there.im sure it could have to do with some sort of submission that the labels havent done but im sure theres more people out there with releases but arent on discogs.

great for vinyl releases though

Scubadevils

Thats the thing though, its user driven... go and catalogue your tunes on it!

seannash

Felixdhc wrote: »

Thats the thing though, its user driven... go and catalogue your tunes on it!

yeah im a bit lazy like that ha ha

i doubt all the vinyl releases were user based though.

but yeah id imagine theres a few labels slipping through the cracks

Scubadevils

seannash wrote: »

yeah im a bit lazy like that ha ha

i doubt all the vinyl releases were user based though.

but yeah id imagine theres a few labels slipping through the cracks

Probably not all, but I would think a large amount are from users - I've only submitted a few because it can be a bit of a pain to do but many of the labels that are catalogued from start to finish were long gone before discogs ever existed.

seannash

Felixdhc wrote: »

Probably not all, but I would think a large amount are from users - I've only submitted a few because it can be a bit of a pain to do but many of the labels that are catalogued from start to finish were long gone before discogs ever existed.

true thers also a few whitelabels on there.i rememeber hunting down a few from there.it is a good vinyl resource no doubt

Scubadevils

seannash wrote: »

true thers also a few whitelabels on there.i rememeber hunting down a few from there.it is a good vinyl resource no doubt

CDs too, and its great, not just good :pac:

I'm sure it could be a good digital resource too, if people got their fingers out... the youth of today, want it all to come to them. In my day......

Edit - throw some netlabels at it and see what comes up, I don't know any really so can't test it. One that sprang to mind purely because I stumbled across their website today is 'Earstroke Records' and they seem to have everything there - I know thats one random sample of many but as I say, I'm not up to speed with netlabels so would be curious to see what's happening there on discogs.

http://www.discogs.com/label/Earstroke+Records

Scubadevils

Ok, so I just did a google search for 'techno netlabel' and the first four results all have their full catalogue from what I can see listed on discogs. I know nothing about these labels but it appears the digital world may be represented alright on discogs.

http://www.stadtgruenlabel.net/
http://www.discogs.com/label/Stadtgruen

http://deeplimit.net/
http://www.discogs.com/label/Deeplimit

http://www.offaudio.com/
http://www.discogs.com/label/OffAudio

http://www.thinner.cc/pages/home.php
http://www.discogs.com/label/Thinner

seannash

aciitone is only done up to 2008(its an irish label)

but yeah it has got to do with the label/artist to update it i guess

Zascar

It would be miles better if it had audio clips

jonny68

Been using Discogs since it started very good website.

Good idea Zascar by the way :cool:

Heisenberg1

what a gem of a site

joker77

It's a great site alright. I can't remember when I signed up on it, but I started using it seriously when I mp3'ed my vinyl collection a few years back. I contributed 5 releases from my collection that weren't up there, all Irish stuff - Sound Crowd, 4th Dimension and DJ Wool.

seannash

joker77 wrote: »

It's a great site alright. I can't remember when I signed up on it, but I started using it seriously when I mp3'ed my vinyl collection a few years back. I contributed 5 releases from my collection that weren't up there, all Irish stuff - Sound Crowd, 4th Dimension and DJ Wool.

feck i had a dj wool mix cd from years ago.it was absolutely savage.can5t remember the name of it.gave it to a mate and havent seen it since

joker77

seannash wrote: »

feck i had a dj wool mix cd from years ago.it was absolutely savage.can5t remember the name of it.gave it to a mate and havent seen it since

try Discogs :cool:

seannash

joker77 wrote: »

try Discogs :cool:

it was just a regular mix cd that he did.he used to play in a club i dj,d in and the manager gave me it.wasnt like a release or anything


it was savage though

JDxtra

Just love Discogs. Contributing was a real pain in the past, but its much more rewarding since V4 of the site. Spent an age adding items I had which were not listed including many Irish releases. Now have my entire collection added. Phew.

Scubadevils

Zascar wrote: »

It would be miles better if it had audio clips

Done :pac: And the option to buy of course too... for example -

http://www.discogs.com/Moderat-Moderat/release/1773870

gsparx

I rarely use discogs for some reason.
I love http://www.allmusic.com/. It's obviously a more mainstream site but has a pretty comprehensive electronic database too. Sound files, bios and reviews, just generally great for expanding your knowledge base in all genres.