discogs marketplace?

Good point, I don't know why I didn't think of that. I should have the original purchase receipt as well.

This is only the second time I've had a package go missing and the previous time it did turn up with the recipient eventually.

It can take a couple of months for the post office to settle up but the few times it has happened it worked. Also, if you used Royal Mail even standard Small Parcel will also have a code to check if it has been delivered.

FFS "Posterogs"?!?!?

can't wait for Pogsogs

Discogs Reviews as art project?

https://www.discogs.com/user/nihilardtard

The Xgau of crust?

inconclusion: i eat poop.

quite.

I have a fairly significant (in terms of who plays on it) album that’s not listed in Discogs. It was a “band name used once” kind of deal, so the artist isn’t there either (though a few similarly named artists are). A few years ago, I even emailed the singer (who’s no longer in music) and got info on approx. how many copies were pressed.

Can I create a Discogs account and enter the album info, upload the cover art, etc.? Or will they not accept that from a new account?

That’s how every record gets onto Discogs. Go for it!

Ok! Holiday project...

Be prepared to make mistakes & have to edit them, hope that there aren’t too many Dave Smith type personnel that you have to hunt through 78 numbered variations of, and have fun!

I've been active on Discogs for close to 6 years now (I just used it as a reference source before that) and I've still only created like maybe five new entries. It's hard work. Good luck!

What record ?

I’ll post a link once I’ve entered it!

Cool

I've added many hundreds of releases. It's tough going initially, but definitely do-able...

One day, thought I'd lookup my own name to see if there'd been a namesake. And found one. Ah well. Then I found it was actually me! Ned had created all the entries for the ILX albums! What a dude.

OK, that was a pretty weedy process (the "Database Guidelines" are almost comically detailed). I think I did it right?: https://www.discogs.com/release/14609189

I'm not sure how it figures out which names to link up some of the performers to (in cases where there were multiple same-name entries tagged with (1), (2), etc.); but looks like it did a fairly good job(?) I don't know who some of the performers are, just the famous ones.

Nice. I have no idea what this is. Anything on youtube?

Not that I can find.

I'm not sure how it figures out which names to link up some of the performers to (in cases where there were multiple same-name entries tagged with (1), (2), etc.)

It doesn't do this at all, the submitting user has to! So (eg) are you sure that it's the same Tom Watson who played with Mike Watt, the same Girl Friday that appear on the Cheese Compilation cassette, the same Bill Bowman who drummed in a Seattle psychobilly band, and the same Alexis Hall who sang on a variety of deep house records in the '00s?

(If not, and the same band member doesn't mind being pestered, might be worth checking the credits you're not sure on...)

I’m only sure about Tom Watson and Mayo Thompson. How do I separate the others from the linked entries, if that’s recommended? (I didn’t think I made any affirmative choice to link the names to certain same-name options, I just clicked on them to check them out.)

(In the case of “Dewey,” I didn’t click on anything at all, as no identical names were presented; so I’m not sure these choices were made by me.)

Also, I’m pretty sure it’s not the same group as appeared on that comp cassette; not sure why it linked up with that, either (as opposed to either of the other identically named artists).

Was I supposed to choose the Artist Name “Girl Friday (4)”?

https://support.discogs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360004051893-Quick-Start-Guide-For-New-Contributors

I have put discogs on hold until I have more disk space

xp I did consult that, believe it or not! Think I found the section in the Full Submission Guidelines to fix the artist name thing.

The database only knows what you tell it - if you enter Dewey or Girl Friday as names, it will link to Dewey or Girl Friday if those names already exist.

Was I supposed to choose the Artist Name “Girl Friday (4)”?

Type it, rather than choose it. When you submit, it will tell you that this is a new artist, ask you to add a note to that effect in Submission Notes, and require you to tick a box before it will process the addition.

Sorry, "type it" is what I meant. OK, I've made a few adjustments, now that I get the "adding numbers in brackets" thing. This is probably as good as it's going to get. I don't know for sure that the "Alexis Hall (2)" I linked to is the same performer -- but it seems like a reasonable assumption, given the date and recording location of her other credited release. I'll leave the others as linked -- two are definitely correct, others seem like reasonable assumptions, and the few "?"s (like "Dewey") don't seem worth creating fresh entries for.

Somehow, "Girl Friday (4)" doesn't come up when you search by artist -- but there's a full record for that group, complete with bio, which I accidentally linked to upon first choosing "(4)". So I amended to (5), and got the prompt that I was creating a new Artist record (as desired(.

Going to bed, a hero.

waving a flag in your honour

Happy to see Dewey gettin' his dues

you will certainly not be the first person who has listed a release with erroneous credits, it happens, there is a whole community of editors who will get around to it at some point and in the meantime it doesn't matter -- the important thing is to get the release up to share w/ the world as a reference, to document, the details can be ironed out later

There must be some that will never be “verified”; as the performers are relative unknowns, and it would take considerable research to sort out whether (say) this Jane Smith is the same as that Jane Smith?

And in those cases, I guess the question is whether it’s better to lump them all together in a single entry (even if not likely accurate), or keep adding a (2), (3), (4) etc. every time a new Jane Smith comes up?

need a librarian to weigh in

The main epistemic principle with a crowd sourced database is to strongly discourage all assumptions. Unless you're fairly sure your Jane Smith is an existing Jane Smith profile you always add a new one. As budo jeru says it can be sorted out at some point. Like a crossword some additional information can help make connections apparent.

The unsitance on verifiable fact (within reason) drives some people crazy - even stuff you might think is self-evident strictly speaking requires some corroboration, but it's a solid approach if a database is to have some credibility as a resource.

*insistance

Reverb LP shuttering at the end of Feb. Disappointing for me as the platform increased my sales anywhere between 30-50% depending on the month. Boo.

Aw man, that's a drag.

so ebay is busily telling us it's still open for business, which i assume means buying and selling online is not yet everywhere on pause (quite the opposite)

as i will very soon probably have a LOT of time on my hands (not in a good way) i am happy to get my head round putting my vinyl online (sometime music-writer since the early 80s, roomful of records in varying states of repair lol) -- so what is BEST PRACTICE currently, with lockdown and all. is it simply OK to carry stuff every day to the nearest post office? are there other options?

(when i was researching how to get my kickstarter book out into the world last year i discovered that the UK post office will do home pick-ups of large numbers of parcels, but my publishers suggested a much cheaper solution via their distributor)

i'm asking abt the UK here tho others itt i guess wd like to know similar abt the US and elsewhere

i actually cancelled the three orders i was getting ready to ship and i took everything else i was selling down. still lots of people wanting to buy stuff, but i don't really want to have to visit the post office any more

^^^ yeah I'm done for at least a month or two

that's what i thought (unless there was some clever unrisky workaround i didn't know about). it makes sense for me to do all the tiresome data-entry work during this slack period i guess

yeah that's a good idea, very time-consuming but I am so glad I did it

if you know the weight you can print postage slips from paypal or discogs (at least you can in the US, I assume this is the same in the UK). My CD sales have def tapered off during the past few weeks; but my friend has a massive vinyl haul he's selling off on discogs and there's been no slowdown there for him.

ABE does postage slips yes, so i assume the ebay or paypal postage slips work too. plus CDs you can pop into a postbox.

but how does you friend get their vinyl into the mailstream?

take a hacksaw to your nearest postbox under cover of darkness, you just need to widen the slot by about 4 inches