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What I really want for Discogs is some kind of database feature, recognising that unique tracks make up releases. So all the individual credits for e.g. the so
by pcf 6y ago
What I really want for Discogs is some kind of database feature, recognising that unique tracks make up releases.
So all the individual credits for e.g. the song "The Boys Of Summer" by Don Henley could be updated in one place, and then updated on all the releases it appears on.
That would make the site extremely useful to see who played what on which songs, who produced and mixed it etc.
You CAN find that information for songs now, but since a track might appear on hundreds of releases, it's impossible to know easily which release has the credits for it.
- elvis70 6y agoMusicBrainz provides that: https://musicbrainz.org/recording/5067ae6b-1414-4702-933b-e6ad3c51a0e7 https://musicbrainz.org/recording/5067ae6b-1414-4702-933b-e6...
- leokennis 6y agoI agree. Sideways related and maybe more of a UI issue, but the site also makes it unnecessarily hard to limit my search to a "release" instead of a version of that release (i.e. I am looking for general info on a U2 album, not the liner notes of the Asian release of that album).
- asutekku 6y agoIf you press "View All" on the "Other Versions" it will bring you to the master release of said release.
- raaxe 6y agoDiscogs actually had this feature (called 'tracks'), but recently disabled it: https://www.discogs.com/forum/thread/803017 https://www.discogs.com/forum/thread/803017
- cromon 6y agoSadly they could have been a major player in the standardisation of metadata or at least even conformed to one of the current (imperfect) standards that exist. Their priorities lay elsewhere I guess.