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Discogs
Image:Discogs.Logo.png
URL http://www.discogs.com
Commercial? Partially
Type of site Music
Registration Optional
Available language(s) English
Owner Zink Media, Inc. Uniform Resource Locator is an URI which also specifies where the identified resource is available and the protocol for retrieving it In the Philosophy of language, a natural language (or ordinary language) is a Language that is spoken or written in phonemic-alphabetic or phonemically-related English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States
Created by Kevin Lewandowski
Launched October 2000
Revenue Advertisement, Marketplace Seller Fees

Discogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about music recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and certain bootleg or off-label releases. The article is about sound recordings For the Pet Shop Boys album see Discography The Complete Singles Collection. A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages A Computer Database is a structured collection of records or data that is stored in a computer system Music is an Art form in which the medium is Sound organized in Time. A bootleg recording is an audio and/or Video recording of a performance that was not officially released by the artist or under other legal authority The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs. In Computer networking, a domain name is a name given to a collection of network devices that belong to a domain which is an administrative space managed according com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc. , and are located in Portland, Oregon, USA. Portland is a city located in the Northwestern United States, near the Confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Discogs is one of the largest online databases of electronic music releases and is believed to be the largest online database of releases on vinyl media. A gramophone Across all genres and formats, over 1,019,000 releases are catalogued. It also features listings for over 874,000 artists and over 87,500 labels. The site has around 200,000 visitors a day.

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History

The discogs. com domain name was registered in August 2000, and Discogs itself was launched in October 2000 by programmer, DJ, and music fan Kevin Lewandowski as a database of his private record collection.

He was inspired by the success of community-built sites such as Slashdot, eBay, and Open Directory Project, and decided to use this model for a music discography database. Slashdot, often abbreviated as /, is a technology-related news Website owned by SourceForge Inc eBay Inc is an American Internet company that manages eBaycom an Online auction and shopping Website in which people and businesses buy and The Open Directory Project ( ODP) also known as dmoz (from directory

The site's original goal was to build the most comprehensive database of electronic music, organized around the artists, labels, and releases available in that genre. Electronic music is music that employs Electronic musical instruments and Electronic Music technology in its production In 2003 the Discogs system was completely rewritten (Version 2), and in January 2004 it began to support other genres, starting with hip hop. Hip hop music, also referred to as rap music, is a Music genre typically consisting of a rhythmic vocal style called rap which is accompanied with Since then, it has expanded to include rock and jazz in January 2005 and funk/soul, latin, and reggae in October of the same year. Rock music is a genre of Popular music often though not necessarily employing Electric guitar, Bass guitar, and Drums. Jazz is an American Musical art form which originated in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States Funk is an American musical style that originated in the mid- to late-1960s when African American musicians blended Soul music, Soul Soul music is a Music genre that combines Rhythm and blues and Gospel music, originating in the United States. Latin music, includes the music of all countries in Latin America (and the Caribbean) and comes in many varieties Reggae is a Music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s In January 2006 blues and non-music (e. The Blues is a vocal and instrumental form of Music based on the use of the Blue notes It emerged as an accessible form of self-expression g. comedy records, field recordings, interviews) were added. Classical music started being supported in June 2007, and in October 2007 the "final genres were turned on" - now adding support for the Stage & Screen, Brass & Military, Children's, and Folk, World, & Country music genres and indeed allowing capture of virtually every single kind of audio recording that has ever been released.

On 30 June 2004, Discogs published its last report, which included information about the number of its contributors. Events 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, is defeated and killed by troops of the Usurper "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " This report claims that Discogs has 15,788 contributors and 260,789 releases [1]. On the Discogs homepage there is information indicating the number of releases, labels, and artists presently in the database. In 2006 the number of releases in the database passed the 500,000 mark.

On 20 July 2007 a new system for sellers was introduced on the site called Market Price History (see old pricing here), it made information available to users who paid for a subscription —though 60 days information was free— access to the past price items were sold for up to 12 months ago by previous sellers who had sold exactly the same release. Events 1304 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle - King Edward I of England takes the last rebel stronghold Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. The subscription business model is a Business model where a customer must pay a subscription price to have access to the product/service At the same time, the US$12 per year charge for advanced subscriptions was abolished, as it was felt that the extra features should be made available to all subscribers now that a better, some may say fairer, revenue stream had been found from sellers and purchasers. Revenue stream is a method that a company organisation or individual use to collect Money --often automated-- from users of their product or service However, at the beginning of 2008, the Market Price History was also made free of charge for all users, still giving up to a 12 month view of historical sales data for any release.

In mid-August 2007, Discogs data became publicly accessible via a RESTful, XML-based API and a license that allows specially attributed use, but does not allow anyone to "alter, transform, or build upon" the data. Don't change "Extensible" [1][2][3] Prior to the advent of this license and API, Discogs data was only accessible via the Discogs web site's HTML interface and was intended to be viewed only using web browsers. HTML, an initialism of HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant Markup language for Web pages It provides a means to describe the structure A web browser is a software application which enables a user to display and interact with text images videos music games and other information typically located on a [4] The HTML interface remains the only authorized way to modify Discogs data. [2]

Contribution system

The data in Discogs comes from submissions contributed by users who have registered accounts on the web site. The system has gone through 4 major revisions.

Version One (V1)

All incoming submissions were checked for formal and factual correctness by privileged users called "moderators", or "mods" for short, who had been selected by site management. Submissions and edits wouldn't become visible or searchable until they received a single positive vote from a "mod". An even smaller pool of super-moderators called "editors" had the power to vote on proposed edits to artist & label data.

Version Two (V2)

This version introduced the concept of "submission limits" which prevented new users from submitting more than 2-3 releases for moderation. The number of possible submissions by a user increased on a logarithmic scale. The purpose of this was two-fold: 1) it helped keep the submission queue fairly small and manageable for moderators, and 2) it allowed the new user to acclimatise themselves slowly with the many formatting rules and guidelines of submitting to Discogs. Releases required two votes to be accepted into the database.

Version Three (V3)

Submission limits were eliminated, allowing each user to submit an unlimited number of updates and new entries. New releases added to the database were explicitly marked as "Unmoderated" with a top banner, and updates to existing items, such as releases, artists, or labels, were not shown (or available to search engines or casual visitors) until they were approved by the moderators.

Version Four (V4)

This system launched on March 10, 2008. Events 241 BC - First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands - The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common New submissions and edits currently take effect immediately. Anytime a new release is added or old release edited, that entry becomes flagged as needing "votes" (initially, "review," but this term caused confusion). A flagged entry is marked as a full yellow bar across a release in the list views and, like version three, a banner on the submission itself -- although, initially, this banner was omitted.

Any item can be voted on at any time, even if it isn't flagged. Votes consist of a rating of the correctness & completeness of the full set of data for an item (not just the most recent changes), as assessed by users who have been automatically determined, by an undisclosed algorithm, to be experienced & reliable enough to be allowed to cast votes. An item's "average" vote is displayed with the item's data. [5]

The changes in v4 have been controversial among active users and former moderators because of what is perceived to be a substantially reduced reliability and usability of the database. As a result, a number of long-time users and former moderators have deleted their accounts,[6] and several hundred remaining members -- collectively responsible for the initial submission to the database of over 200,000 releases (almost a fifth of the total) -- have indicated they would like the site to return to v3. [7]

Software

Tag editors

Other

See also

References

  1. ^ Kevin Lewandowski (August 2007). Open Data + API (Discogs News forum post). Retrieved on 2007-08-27. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 479 BC - Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan
  2. ^ a b Kevin Lewandowski (August 2007). Discogs Data License. Retrieved on 2007-08-27. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 479 BC - Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan
  3. ^ Kevin Lewandowski (August 2007). Discogs API Documentation. Retrieved on 2007-08-27. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 479 BC - Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan
  4. ^ Terms of service changes (forum thread) (2005-06-15). Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 763 BC - Assyrians record a Solar eclipse that will be used to fix the Chronology of Mesopotamian history Retrieved on 2007-08-27. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 479 BC - Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan
  5. ^ Kevin Lewandowski (February 2008). Restructuring of Moderation/Voting System. Retrieved on 2008-03-17. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 45 BC - In his last victory Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger
  6. ^ Various (March 2008). Roll of Honour. Retrieved on 2008-03-23. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1174 - Jocelin, Abbot of Melrose, is elected Bishop of Glasgow.
  7. ^ Various (March 2008). Sign here if you want V3 back.... Retrieved on 2008-03-23. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1174 - Jocelin, Abbot of Melrose, is elected Bishop of Glasgow.

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