Discogs Database In Review: February 2019
Looking at the February overview it might look like the volume of Contributor activity dropped off in February… But February has 3 less days than January, and looking at the daily averages tells a different story. They indicate the Contributor Community still have their heads down and are as busy as ever.
We’re sending out a big thanks to all the French and German translators who’ve been working on translating the Submission Guidelines. They’ve already finished the Database Glossary, translations of which we’ll be making public soon. Then it’s on to the rest of the Guidelines!
Every month we’re more excited at the prospects of making Discogs more accessible to people from non-English countries. How else are we going to catalogue all the music in the world?
Overview
Note that whilst the monthly numbers are all down on January, the daily averages are stable, as seen in the graph of daily Submissions below.
Daily Submissions
Top Contributors
From The Database Forum
- Need Help? Top Contributors by {Category}: Following a suggestion from velove and lbamaral, we’ve made a thread to keep track of the most active Contributors in any particular area of the Database, so you can find the help you need if you get stuck.
- I think we should catalog blank media! Nik, the 15th person to ever sign up to Discogs, has been on here longer than pretty much everyone (apart from teo only 4 other people from the first 15 are still active in 2019). He’s suggesting we expand the boundaries of §1.1.3c to allow “Audio formats that don’t contain audio (for example; cassettes, CDrs, blank picture discs)”, so that we can all use Discogs to catalogue the different kinds of media out there. See an example here No Artist – SA90.
- What does a record make an Import release? Does a Release qualify as being catalogued as an import just because it was bought from a country different to the Release Country? No. As cheebacheebakid sums up perfectly, “Buying it in a country means nothing, markings on the release mean everything.”
- Merge proposal for RCA Nashville studios: It’s always nice to see people working together to make Discogs one little bit cleaner. This was a nice little clean up project kicked off by Violent-Power, merging all the various RCA Victor Studios, Nashville company entities.
- (Too) Many Artist Names ? How many artists would you list on a Release before using Various?
- Beach Boys Smiley Smile is Not Lo-Fi: How many Discogs Contributors does it take to define a style?
Updates To The Submission Guidelines
There are no new updates to the Submission Guidelines from February 2019.
