Discogs - Help, Tricks, Secrets And Tips

Spent a lot of the last year getting my collection into discogs and making sure stuff I'd sold was out. Just did an audit of that and only missed 13 records. Now on to matching with my cleaning spreadsheet and figuring out what records still need a first pass through the VPI.

The scope of the project:

- Get everything in discogs to reflect what's on my shelves (additions/subtractions)
- Audit that step (currently here)
- Cross-check list with my cleaning spreadsheet to determine which records still need to be cleaned
- Clean said records, make sure their inners/outers are good (a lot of trickle-down here for older records)

It slows down in the summer at my job and I work from home so I should be able to tackle this in waves over the next couple months.
 
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LeeVing said:
My notifications were blowing up the last couple days with "A comment was posted" type notifications.

Some new user thought removal was a way to remove a release from their collection - and then a lot of other new users thought they had to say no in the sub edit - most after it had already failed.

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looks like it's time for you remove that album from your collection! ;)
 
ngower said:
You guys read your notifications?
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I do - lots of bad edits happen.

Not really a fan of having both messages and notifications now, but whatever. I read them all, because there's a lot of new users that don't quite know what they are doing and mess things up. That's not exclusive to new users - but they seem to do it more often.

I also have 5000+ releases in my collection, so I get a decent amount of messages per day.

Most of the time it's just an "added variant" edit - so I really don't look at those, but when they don't add a lot of info to the sub edit I take a look at what was changed.

Stuff like this


A date was added to a release that is date-less for a reason. They added 2015 when the submission on Discogs was made in 2012.
They also didn't have a source, so things like that need to be reviewed.
 
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GentleSenator said:
looks like it's time for you remove that album from your collection! ;)
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You know...I just may have to do so - as I'm still getting notifications, but I don't think not having it in my collection will stop all the "A comment was posted" notifications being that I was the last editor.

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I just wish there was a way to not get notified for a specific submission.
 
GentleSenator said:
:D oh my god.
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The last commenter even made a post on the "Post the funniest thing you read today on Discogs" about how someone tried to remove a release to remove it from their collection - Another user and I called them out right after.

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This Jethro sub is also a release where I had to deal with Obscured-By-Crowdz again - just before all this removal stuff. The only reason I'm getting these notifications is because of them and now I dislike them even more.
 
Looks like all the Discogs maintenance issues of the day have messed up the previous sales so everything looks like it has never sold.

Low/Median/High values are still at least viewable in the Collection view, but every sub currently has this - also - not liking the removal of the "as low as" $$ next to how many copies are being sold.

Hope this all gets fixed today.

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