Great news for vinyl collectors: our web-developers Joe and Robbert have revised and improved our Discogs search mechanisms, to give you more up-to-date Discogs data and more images.
What’s new in Music Collector’s Discogs support?
- Earlier monthly updates of our Discogs mirror
As you may know, we run our own mirror of the Discogs database (for performance reasons), which is updated monthly with their monthly full database dump.
We have now optimized the import tool that we use for this, meaning that we can now have our mirror updated the day after Discogs releases their dump (around the 5th of the month). - Now search Discogs LIVE by Catalog Nr
Did you purchase a new album that is on Discogs, but not in our mirror yet? Then in the Add Auto screen, just search by Catalog Nr. This will make our search engine check our mirror first, then if it’s not found, it will search the live Discogs database through their API. Of course, the retrieved entries are then added to our mirror. - All Discogs entries are now updated weekly
For all entries that *are* in our mirror, our search engine now checks for updates once a week. Making sure you always get the freshest Discogs data and images. - Discogs cover images are now downloaded again!
The downloading of Discogs images had been disabled for quite a while, because their servers couldn’t copy with the load, causing time-out errors. But it seems they have upgraded their servers, so we have enabled the cover image downloading again.
And: to keep the load on Discogs servers as low as possible we are caching the images on our own server, giving you faster image downloads for popular albums.
IMPORTANT:
These changes are all server-side, no update of your Music Collector software needed. You don’t even need the latest version to benefit from these improvements, any old version will do 🙂
Recent changes
v23.1: Simplified Sort Name editing for all pick list entries
Aug 31, 2023
v23.0.4: Several improvements
Jun 01, 2023
v23.0.3: Improved Add Screen stability and Sorting / Details Panel fixes
Apr 18, 2023
v23.0.2: Various fixes
Apr 06, 2023
v23: Now supports our new CLZ Scanner barcode scanner app
Mar 30, 2023
v22.0.6: Various bug fixes
May 30, 2022
v22.0.5: Various bug fixes
Mar 21, 2022
v22.0.4: Various bug fixes
Mar 14, 2022
v22.0.3: Couple of bug fixes
Mar 03, 2022
v22.0.2: Fixed a crash in Manage Pick Lists and a bug
Feb 24, 2022
v22: Configurable Pre-fill & Update from Core + WebP support
Feb 23, 2022
v21.5 Improved Submit to Core system
Oct 08, 2021
v21.4.3: Template updates to the box set area
Sep 30, 2021
v21.4.2: Improved box set area in templates and some fixes
Sep 28, 2021
v21.4: Bar chart in folder panel background
Sep 14, 2021
v21.3.2: Transfer Field Data: fix for Date fields
Aug 12, 2021
v21.3: New “Transfer Field Data” tool
Aug 06, 2021
v21.2.2: A couple of fixes
Jul 06, 2021
v20.3.2: Fix for macOS 10.x
Jun 29, 2021
v20.3 More fields now sync to CLZ Cloud / Music Connect
Jun 24, 2021
v21.2: More fields now sync to CLZ Cloud / Music Connect
Jun 16, 2021
v21.1: New Link Discs with Core screen
May 06, 2021
v21.0.3 Extra Collection Status dropdown button in Add Screen
Mar 17, 2021
v21.0.2 Various improvements and fixes
Mar 04, 2021
v21.0: New: Pre-fill fields while adding albums
Jan 18, 2021