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It's been quite a while, so I might be misremembering some of the details, but I was one of the early contributors to the Discogs database. In the beginning it
by hansjorg 6y ago
It's been quite a while, so I might be misremembering some of the details, but I was one of the early contributors to the Discogs database.
In the beginning it was very much a community driven project and it seemed like the Discogs database would remain open like e.g. Wikipedia with the GFDL, so after pouring in a lot of work it was very disappointing when the project was commercialized and the database closed with a restrictive license.
- svantana 6y agoWhat data are you referring to? The database is available as CC0 at https://data.discogs.com/ https://data.discogs.com/ and has been for many years AFAIK. I really wish they would include the marketplace statistics, because from that one could estimate popularity of releases. But since that data is not crowdsourced, it's fair enough that they keep it private. Of course, one could scrape it from the web, but that is impractical and unethical to do for all the millions of releases.
- hansjorg 6y agoIt went from being open without a clear license to being closed off. Good to see that they opened it up again (in 2008 by the look of it).