LinuxMusicians

What are the benefits of putting your music on AllMusic and Discogs?

i use discogs already like 15 years. For me it's a music database. I've got around 3000vinyls and in that way it's easy to know what i have and don't have.
If i search something i can find it more easy in my collection via categories i made on discogs according to my collection.
I'm planning also to sell some stuff and it's also easy via discogs.

bitsnpcs wrote: ↑Sat Feb 08, 2020 12:59 pm As they are for selling your music

I have never bought anything from those sites, but I regularly use discogs because they are very good at keeping track of on which records individual artists appear. Especially in genres where there's a lot of collaboration and adhoc/short-lived groups that's a great way to discover new stuff.

Sounds like you two are big into the community. Why Discogs over AllMusic?

Jeax wrote: ↑Tue Mar 03, 2020 12:19 am Sounds like you two are big into the community. Why Discogs over AllMusic?

No reason really, I never did an in-depth comparison (though a quick test does suggest discogs finds some more hits)

Looking back on this thread, I realized everyone talked about using it for managing their music collection. But my initial question was about adding my own data to such databases. All that stands out as of now are:

raboof wrote: ↑Mon Mar 02, 2020 9:02 am a great way to discover new stuff.

raboof wrote: ↑Tue Mar 03, 2020 7:14 am discogs finds some more hits

Do yall add metadata for yall releases? Why or why not?

personally, I run my music files through https://musicbrainz.org Picard client, and I use https://github.com/murdos/musicbrainz-u ... er.user.js UserScript in browser to use info from Discogs to help populate MB for releases that don't have an entry

Again, is this for your releases or others' music you've collected?

If were to release music, I'd probably add to both.

Anyone using gnudb.org?