# Discogs import without artist differentiator
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discogs-import-without-artist-differentiator/51789
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [January 30, 2021, 3:17pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discogs-import-without-artist-differentiator/51789 "2021-01-30T15:17:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@johannes](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/johannes)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2021, 3:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discogs-import-without-artist-differentiator/51789/1 "2021-01-30T15:18:00Z")
When there are several identically-named artists on Discogs, a differentiator like (2), (3), etc... is added at the end of the artist name. Is this something that can be detected via the API, and be removed during import (at least optionally)?
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### Author:  [@ohrenkino](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ohrenkino)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2021, 4:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discogs-import-without-artist-differentiator/51789/2 "2021-01-30T16:37:09Z")
see also here:
> [@Discogs: remove (\*) comments from Artist](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discogs-remove-comments-from-artist/44230):
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> Hi, When I don't found an album in MusicBrainz I use Discogs. However, I hate that this database stores comments inside the Artist tag. So, I see a lot of "Name (1)" or similar. So, as the "comment reference" is in the form of [(?)] or [(??)] where '?' is a digit [0-9] and it's one SPACE after the bracket, I feel it's easy to search for these comments and remove them. Any idea to achieve this "automatically"? Thank you.
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2026, 12:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/discogs-import-without-artist-differentiator/51789/3 "2026-02-09T12:29:02Z")