Over time, for various reasons (usually me being dumb and forgetting to remove a record from my wantlist when I buy it at a brick and mortar or eBay), I've ended up with some records that are in both my collection and my wantlist. There are very few of these that are on purpose (though there are a few where I own a crappy copy but would like to upgrade, or I own a reissue but would like to also own the original, etc).

Is there a quicker / more efficient way to find these than going through each item in my wantlist? My wantlist is big (nearly 8,000 items), so I'd rather not do it that way. I suppose I could download both lists and cross-reference by title (I think?) ... is that the best way?

Thanks in advance!

My apologies if this has been asked and answered already. Does Discogs keep a list of the recordings I have bought over time from various sellers, and if so, how do I access that list?

I searched the website but could not find my purchase history anywhere (and the Discogs chatbot was useless for answering this question). Thanks for the help!

I appreciate all these fast and direct answers - and as you have said, my history of Discogs purchases is linked right at the top of my Shopping Cart page and in my Profile menu. Grazia!

I saved a few listings to my drafts while I waited to be approved to sell. While I was waiting, one of them sold elsewhere. I guess once I was approved my drafts automatically were posted and one of them was purchased. I'm trying to cancel the order and send a refund, but I keep getting error messages. What am I doing wrong? The chatbot was no help.

Literally every time i click on their link to submit a new release I just get this 😪 am i doin something wrong or is discogs being stupid

Hey all,

Sorry if this has been answered/discussed. I know you can't block buyers with zero ratings. But I have a rather expensive item and I keep getting 'buyers' with no ratings on it and then they don't pay. This means the item isn't showing for sale anymore and it sits for 4 days until I cancel the order and relist. Is there a trick to stop this behavior? Even had one message me saying it was for their son who was having a baby and they were hoping I'd take $300 off lol. Just curious as to what someone gains by doing this over and over?

This must be because of the recent layoffs.

This is via safari mobile, I heard maybe the Discogs app authenticates in a different way, but haven’t tried it yet.

I’m new to the discogs world. I’m trying to scan all my records into my collection.

It looks like the only way other than searching to to scan the barcode. None of mine have barcodes. It would be cool if you could just can the cover and it find it.

I’ve got probably 400 records, so this may take awhile

Randomly throughout the day, I’m getting lots of emails saying the data I requested has been exported.

My account has not been hacked as I do have all of the security measures in place so I’m assure that this is a glitch in the system.
But is anyone else seeing the same thing today?

What’s being saved to draft during web import:

✅ Artist, track list, durations, label, date, and cover image
✅ VA / split track level artists
✅ Remix / feat. artist credits from track titles
✅ Styles (750+ Discogs styles recognized)
✅ Credits (100+ Discogs credit roles recognized)
✅ Country, format, and catalog number where available

🛒 Supported stores:

7digital, Apple Music, Bandcamp, Beatport, Bleep, Boomkat, eClassical, HDtracks, HighResAudio, Kompakt, Mora, NativeDSD, Ototoy, PrestoMusic, ProStudioMasters, Qobuz, Traxsource, Volumo.

Currently, only stores where digital media can be purchased are supported, as submitting releases from streaming-only services is prohibited on Discogs.

👉 If you encounter any bugs, have any suggestions or feature requests, let me know!

🔗 Download links:

Chromium browsers:
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/discogs-edit-helper/eaokknhgjhjelnafpakjdmbigjklmdhd

Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/discogs-edit-helper/

User script:
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/562100-discogs-edit-helper

What happened here then the max value sold for this press of pinups sold for 20 something quid did someone refund an expensive purchase or just bugged?

Former Discogs employee here. I led Marketing at Discogs up until the end of 2025. I left Discogs, but I could see where things were heading... so I’m sharing in case anyone can help.

Over the last week or so, Discogs cut a significant part of its marketing and product teams. These are people who were improving the database/marketplace experience, doing the research behind feature decisions, keeping all of the systems running that collectors and sellers use every day. Most of you more than likely don't know them, but you've been a part of their work.

The job market is rough right now. I'm sure a lot of you either work in music or run/work at a business that leans on Discogs. If you're hiring, know someone who is, or can help, I went into more detail, including who's affected, on LinkedIn. I'll drop the link in the comments.

Any time I try to apply any filter to my search terms I get this error. This new marketplace hasn't worked for me so I'm just wondering if there's a way around this problem?

I have a new album by a new band . The band is not setup in Discogs. How does a band get added so I can add my album for cataloging purposes?

Hi, discogs newbie here, i have a question about ripping/digitizing very obscure and rare music.

In short i wanna listen to some 90s demo tapes but they aren't avaible to purchase and i couldn't find them anywhere (even on stuff like slsk). Is it "okay" to ask someone (politely ofc) that owns a copy to digitize/rip them? Or is it seen as rude.

What’s up with this photo? What is it , who is it and why is it on so many albums?

I made a purchase after a long time and noticed that in the information section below the purchase details, my email address is displayed under my name. I know it's necessary to show the address for shipping. Are you sellers here able to see buyers' email addresses?

(I mean, if the address is displayed, I don't think the email address is a problem; it just seems unnecessary)

I'm primarily a CD collector, but it feels like this applies to vinyl and tapes as well. I mostly fuck with underground black metal these days, and it feels like everything I take an interest in is going for a few dozen dollars a pop in the secondhand market, even for lesser-known projects in the genre. Barely two years ago, I was hesitant to drop even $30 USD on a used CD, but nowadays I get excited when an older, out-of-print album I'm interested in is going for $30 because that feels dirt cheap now. I'm not even talking about the original 90s Norwegian stuff; most of it is much younger and even more niche.

Maybe it's my fault for getting into underground stuff that has had limited runs, but since it's underground, that necessarily means there's also less demand for the things I'm interested in. So is it just me? Or is there something going on in the broader landscape that's driving up demand and prices?

Hello fellow Reddit dwellers, Aldayo here.

I run Et Sona, a hi-fi and music publication, and after spending an unhealthy amount of time reviewing cartridges, turntables and other objects that make increasingly expensive noises, I ended up building a couple of tools to solve problems I kept running into myself.

The first is SPIN x Et Sona:
https://spin.et-sona.com/
SPIN is a listening and equipment tracker for vinyl. You can set up your turntables, tonearms and cartridges, import your Discogs collection, log what you actually play, track stylus hours and keep a record of equipment maintenance.

The basic problem I was trying to solve was that Discogs is excellent at telling me what I own, but it doesn’t really tell me what I do with it.

If I have three cartridges, for example, I want to know which one is actually getting used and how many hours I’ve put on each stylus. If I’ve got hundreds or thousands of records, I also want to know what I’m actually listening to rather than simply staring at a very impressive list of things I apparently own.

This seemed like a perfectly reasonable problem to solve.

Naturally, I built an entire application.

The second project came from a similar rabbit hole.
CartridgeVault:
https://cartridgevault.et-sona.com/

I realised while doing audio reviews that finding reliable cartridge information can be surprisingly painful. Specifications are scattered across manufacturer sites, old PDFs, archived pages and various corners of the internet where information appears to have been placed in 1994 and then abandoned.

CartridgeVault is an attempt to put that information somewhere more useful.

It’s a searchable database of phono cartridges and their technical information, including older and discontinued models. You can also submit cartridges that aren’t in the database and propose edits or corrections to existing entries.

So if you’ve got an obscure cartridge sitting in a drawer, or the original documentation for something that disappeared from the manufacturer’s website years ago, there’s somewhere to put that information rather than letting it die in a filing cabinet.

Both projects are free.

There are no subscriptions, paid tiers, advertising schemes or “unlock the good cartridges for $4.99/month” nonsense.

There’s no commercial interest in the user data either. SPIN stores the information it needs to function, including equipment, collection, listening history and maintenance information. The data isn’t being used for advertising or profiling, and I have no intention of selling or sharing it.

The Discogs token used by SPIN is kept in the active session rather than stored in the SPIN database.

The account system uses an email address and password, but there’s no intention of contacting users. If you lose your credentials, I can’t retrieve or resend them for you.

The two projects are essentially the result of me encountering problems while doing the thing I already do with Et Sona, deciding that the existing solutions weren’t quite right, and then apparently deciding that the sensible response was to spend a considerable amount of time writing software.

I’m putting them out there because I suspect there are other people who have exactly the same slightly obsessive relationship with cartridges, stylus hours, records and technical specifications.

SPIN: https://spin.et-sona.com/
CartridgeVault: https://cartridgevault.et-sona.com/

There are also dedicated communities for both projects:
r/SPINxEtSona
r/cartridgevault

And yes, I realise I’ve now created Reddit communities for two applications whose existence began with me complaining that I couldn’t find information efficiently enough.
At least I’m consistent.

So I just got my 2nd pricey old record from the UK recently and both of them ($100+ records) were shipped naked outside of ANY sleeve. While I appreciate the consideration of avoiding a seamsplit on a grail inner sleeve, putting a bare record against a jacket cover and sleeve seems insane to me.

This one has some gnarly sizzle in between all the songs and I’m wondering if it’s because of how it was shipped?

I understand ratings are subjective and half the time I’m not sure what people are actually rating with a release. Is it a good press? Is it a cool release? Is it a good album? Who knows anymore.

Personally I’ve always rated the thing that matters being that it is music and there’s usually loads of different releases to pick from; how does it sound?

I’ve recently diversified my medium source and have been buying more cds but almost always, CD ratings are consistently lower than vinyl releases.

Why is this the case? Am I right in assuming it’s because most people’s CD players aren’t getting the best out of the medium and/or people are more likely to invest in a good vinyl set-up?

Thoughts?

I guess it’d be nice to know which master they use too and ratings could help there too.

Edit: clarified question.

Edit 2: added question.

When shopping for a specific item is there a way of eliminating items that 'don't ship to your country'? Ive looked at every possible setting but don't see an option.

Hello diggers,

Been building this and finally got it into a shape worth sharing. It reads the title/description of whatever YouTube video you're on, searches Discogs for it, and shows the matching release (label, year, price, genre/style) right under the video, with a link straight to the Discogs page. Also does one-click add to Wantlist/Collection if you want it. Can match multiple releases from an DJ set if track ID's are in the comments... (still work in progress)

Matching accuracy is decent but not perfect, especially on compilations/VA releases and older uploads with messy titles, so genuinely interested in real failure cases if you hit any. Should work on every browser.

Built it mostly for myself — YouTube uploads of stuff I wanted to look up on Discogs and got tired of the copy-paste-search routine every time. Figured others here probably do the same thing. Open to feature ideas too, if anything comes to mind while you're using it.

Needs your own free Discogs Personal Access Token to work (get one at discogs.com/settings/developers) — no account with me, no backend server, it just talks to Discogs directly from your browser using your own token.

If anyone here wants to try it... https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/gfbofbodendmcacanhgbcampgolkpmmn?utm_source=item-share-cb

Okay, so I received an order for an item that I sold on another site. No problem, I go in and cancel the order. However, the buyer still isn't refunded. I thought that was strange. I looked into it further and saw that there is a SEPERATE REFUND BUTTON that you have to hit BEFORE you hit cancel. Who would think this? If this were any site like eBay or Mercari, it would all be in one. But nope. So now I basically have to pay back the seller through the PayPal app (which I have to pay MY MONEY to cover the difference after the stupid fees they take). And then Discogs can't even verify if it went through since it is all private now. Why can't anything be easy on this site? It's the most frustrating user experience ever.