Is there a benefit that you have found to keeping your collection in both CLZ and Discogs? I try to add releases when I discover a gap in Discog’s catalog, but I have been pretty lax about adding my collection to Discogs. Is the benefit that each of our attention to Discogs adds to the wider world of collectors (including users of CLZ)? Does anyone have experience with the commerce resource of buying/selling through the site? Having just spent well over an hour (or much longer) adding a new release to Discogs, including tracking down each “artist name (18)” that I could in order to provide accurate and complete information to the next user, I am wondering what value and use other CLZ collectors find in Discogs.
For vinyl, Discogs has significantly more information, such as the specific release, all credits like musicians, track-level composers, engineers, remastering, etc. The level of information is a multiple of what CLZ core provides. However, the app itself is not nearly as flexible. I don’t bother adding to Discogs, but I do sometimes add a link in CLZ to the specific release on Discogs so I can refer to it for the detail. It would be awesome if the Discogs information could automatically populate CLZ fields, but I suspect that would be a bridge too far.
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Sounds about like a ditto for me. Whenever I am adding a cd or vinyl to MuC, I have two websites open – allmusic and discogs. If it’s a classical recording, I also have the IMSLP library open. I am always grateful for the work that has made those resources as good and complete as they are.
I can’t remember the details, but I remember AJ and Alwin describing some of the cool ways that MuC connects/works with Discogs data. That is one of the roots of my sense of obligation to edit or add to Discogs in order to contribute to the “greater good.”
I use Discogs purely as a market place, buying (very many), selling (very few) and have never sought to use it to list my collection; indeed it would have taken countless, pointless, hours to trawl retrospectively through Discogs identifying my discs. I am happy with Music Collector (PC based version) and don’t see any point an on-line duplicate in Discogs.
I add to my MC collection manually (not using the Core) taking information from the item in front of me, using MC to find cover art. Happy Days!