Jim_Lava
Jim_Lava
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Do you use Discogs for cataloging your collection? (RR)
Hi guys, been a long time since I posted anything (maybe not since the boardcrash ages ago), but I've been reading and added some mixes and ish lists through the years.
I added about 5k of my collection acouple of years ago, and the usefulness has been very valuable for me since. Beeing able to search through my own collection, from checking when I'm uncertain if a record is either on my wantlist or in my collection allready (yeah, age is messing up my recollection of records aquired 2 decades ago) to looking for different versions of songs or if musicians pop up on different records. Pressing wise I try my best to add the correct one, but when it comes to cheap records with 100+ pressings, I tend to not be too picky and just add the most common. It's also pretty cool that you can automagically add stuff you buy through discogs, so that helps a bit on the workload.
I started adding my collection about 6 years ago, so some of the records were not in the database. It took me a bit of time to add stuff, but one of the main problems were (and probably still is) how anal some of the dudes on there are. Almost beeing banned for making a mistake on the 20th addition for the day, small things like typos and missing info. I had some kind of thought that the database was work in progress, and like wikipedia, people would edit or make additions when they felt it was needed.
I do keep my collection private tho, because there can be a fair bit of weirdos contacting you about the more rare or local stuff.
What I feel is kind of missing from discogs is the community feel. They have their forums, but if they had only a tiny fraction of the comments, reviews. lists and ratings as youtube, it would've taken it to another level.
Their wantlist-system also could do with a makeover, adding some kind of rating or grouping system. I use it to tag all kinds of interesting stuff, so it's a fair bit of fillers I'd only buy for dirt cheap or just add to an order to save on shipping cost, but it ends up weighted the same as 10+ year top wants. I'd probably buy more and better records if they did, and I'm probably not the only one who stopped checking their new additions spam because of it.
Just my 2 cents.
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