Discogs everything Options

[Ydope]

Based on dano's Discogs scripts here are 3 extended scripts that get
Artist, Album, Genre, Title, Year, Style, Publisher, Mediatype, Mixartist, Cover
just like dano's and furthermore
Catalog#., Vinylno. (for vinyl rips), Band (for releases by more than one artist, known as 'Album Artist' in foobar), Country, Credits, Notes and Discogs Release No.
That is basically the complete information discogs.com offers about a release.

From my experience each of these scripts can be used at different opportunities: When you have a correct %artist% or %album% tag or it's easy to type it in, you use one of the respective two scripts. And the third scripts is useful if you have already tagged the release and just want to 'update' the discogs info. Or when you dont have any info besides the filename it's sometimes also the most easy way to just look it up on discogs.com and use the discogs release no.

1. discogs_album-ext4.src
   - Containes album search
2. discogs_artist-ext4.src
   - Containes artist search
3. discogs_release-ext4.src
   - Uses the discogs release nr. It expects it to be stored in a tag named %discogs-id%.

Note:
If you store the discogs-id (aka discogs release no.) somewhere else (e.g. in %comment%) you have to change this line:
[SearchBy]=%discogs-id% (to '[SearchBy]=%comment%') in order for discogs_release to work best.
Also recommended in that case is to change this line (for 2 times in 3 scripts each):
outputto "discogs-id"
(to 'outputto "comment"').

If something doesnt work, please tell me.

Edit/Update (23.01.2007):

• Fix: when a release had no rating there was an error
• Tweak: no more cases with ';' at the end of notes or credits
• Addition: %discogs-id% also retrieved in discogs_release script and for various artists albums in discogs_artist script

Edit (11.02.2007):

• Fix: Hyperlinks in Notes/Credits should now cause no more trouble.

This post has been edited by Ydope: Feb 11 2007, 23:14

Attached File(s)

 discogs_release_ext4.src ( 10.63K ) Number of downloads: 2210
 discogs_album_ext4.src ( 10.77K ) Number of downloads: 1646
 discogs_artist_ext4.src ( 10.78K ) Number of downloads: 1505

 

[akademik]

Is it possible to add also the DISCOGS-Field "Released:" and to give out the Release-Date in a format like: "Jear, Month"??? That would be great!

This post has been edited by akademik: Mar 15 2007, 08:02

[alexinc]

massive script, thx! but as i'm kind of new to this all, can anyone tell me how to get rid of "Arranged By, Mixed By, Producer, Written-By" when moving the credits to composer, so winamp directly shows name of composer without "Arranged By, Mixed By, Producer, Written-By"!?

ah well, and 2nd question: if i change "Label:" to Copyright-Field and want the Catalog# right next to the Label in Copyright-Field too, how to get a ": " inbetween Label and Catalog#???

thx i.a.

This post has been edited by alexinc: Apr 4 2007, 15:00

[Ydope]

Is it possible to add also the DISCOGS-Field "Released:" and to give out the Release-Date in a format like: "Jear, Month"??? That would be great!

Sorry, that's not planned.

massive script, thx! but as i'm kind of new to this all, can anyone tell me how to get rid of "Arranged By, Mixed By, Producer, Written-By" when moving the credits to composer, so winamp directly shows name of composer without "Arranged By, Mixed By, Producer, Written-By"!?

ah well, and 2nd question: if i change "Label:" to Copyright-Field and want the Catalog# right next to the Label in Copyright-Field too, how to get a ": " inbetween Label and Catalog#???

thx i.a.

%mixartist% ist always of the same structure so you can do that by making an action that does it. But I cant tell you off-hand how-to. If you have no luck yourself maybe ask in the support forum.

[discodad]

Hi Ydope!

I really loved your scripts, they have been a great help. But since yesterday they don't work anymore. Maybe disocgs changed something. Would it be possible for for you to fix them?

Thx a lot for your help

Kindest regards

discodad

[A Weakling Child]

Hi Ydope!

I really loved your scripts, they have been a great help. But since yesterday they don't work anymore. Maybe disocgs changed something. Would it be possible for for you to fix them?

Thx a lot for your help

Kindest regards

discodad

looks like I've opened a separate topic regarding that, please refer http://forums.mp3tag.de/index.php?showtopic=6161, thanks

[eric00000007]

Hi everyone,
I am te new with mp3Tag. It is what I dreamed of for editing and searching music information.

Lets go now in this topic.
I went on the source files to see what was wrong with this scripts and Discogs. Most errors just come from a gotoline 1, just replace it by gotoline 2, and sometimes there is trouble with saynextnumber, replace it with sayuntil "\"". I saw also a trouble with a do while.

I went also to those posts:
http://forums.mp3tag.de/index.php?showtopic=5907
http://forums.mp3tag.de/index.php?showtopic=6161
http://forums.mp3tag.de/index.php?showtopic=2141
http://forums.mp3tag.de/index.php?showtopic=6038

I get some trouble finding artists or albums with accentued characters with the script on this topic. I get more results with the scripts at http://forums.mp3tag.de/index.php?showtopic=2141 but it doesn't import all tags. In conclusion I updated several scripts.

*ext5.src
These files are a compilation of both scripts.
 discogs_artist_ext5.src ( 11.38K ) Number of downloads: 786
 discogs_artiste_title_ext5.src ( 11.54K ) Number of downloads: 565
 discogs_album_ext5.src ( 11.53K ) Number of downloads: 630
 discogs_release_ext5.src ( 11.2K ) Number of downloads: 649


* There are no years in the results. I went on discogs to see if we could get different search results. Apparently not, even with the Rest API http://www.discogs.com/help/api.

* I removed the numbers with artist names. Maybe that could be done for other tags with regexpreplace " \(\d\)" ""

* I added utf-8 support to get better results.

* I added some fields:
"wwwaudiofile"
"Comment catalog number" /used by tag&rename

New *ext4-original.src files
These original src files have been updated and corrected
 discogs_album_ext4_original.src ( 11.28K ) Number of downloads: 572
 discogs_artist_ext4_original.src ( 11.3K ) Number of downloads: 562
 discogs_release_ext4_original.src ( 11.11K ) Number of downloads: 481


* I added utf-8 support to get better results.

* I added some fields:
"wwwaudiofile"
"Comment catalog number" /used by tag&rename

* There is still an error message with artist without releases

Conclusion
* mp3tag is great.
* I have waisted time with the do while loop because of a poor documentation
* url encoding function could be a great addition [added]
* parse or urlencode/urldecode for [SearchBy] could be a great addition [added]
* you should use several scripts to find results
* How could I put several pictures via src files ? I couldn't find tag name for multiple covers !!!!

See you

This post has been edited by eric00000007: Nov 8 2007, 08:54

[micronaut]

yeah i noticed that as well. the built-in discogs earch of mp3tag (without enhanced scripts) doesn't work anymore either... :-/

@ eric: your updated scripts seem to work fine as far as i can tell. thanks man.

[micronaut]

artist names don't work for VA releases with the scripts above...the artist field remains empty.

[eric00000007]

I just test it. It seems to work. Could you send me an example ?
Thanks

This post has been edited by eric00000007: Sep 3 2007, 17:34

[micronaut]

well, for example

i run an album search for "Total 3"

i get the result window with Various / Total 3 / CD etc...

when i click it, i get all the information, the track titles are correct, but there are no artists for each track.


i also think the title information should appear first (in album view), because the track titles are more essential than, let's say, the discogs ID or the publisher, which appear first, but maybe thats just me....

[eric00000007]

and there is encoding trouble with "total 3". I ll check that tonight

[eric00000007]

I updated Va artist. It seems that there discogs changed the page display, it was just a change moveline. I also updated some search results. Check my post of Sep 2 2007, 23:59

This post has been edited by eric00000007: Sep 8 2007, 09:43

[micronaut]

cheers mate

[micronaut]

now the display of cover art doesn't seem to work anymore for most releases.

example: search for Platnum - Rock me (discogs id: 812383) - no album art is shown, although it is on the website.

oddly enough, a search for Platnum - Sweet City (id 381468) displays the art correctly.

maybe discogs changed the layout yet again?

This post has been edited by micronaut: Sep 11 2007, 19:21