I recently updated to the latest version and noticed when I update metadata (via Discogs ID) the import is dropping the numbering convention Discogs uses to distinguish artists with the same name. I really rely on that to prevent mixing artists up. Is there a setting change I can make so it defaults to artist as displayed in discogs?
E.g. artist name 36 (aka Dennis Huddleston) - in discogs is 36 (2). In the past discogs metadata import has used 36 (2) - but now it's just 36.
Since day one I've been manually converting ANV's (Artist Name Variation) to the Discogs 'canonical' artist name - e.g. The Silver Beatles is an ANV of the canonical The Beatles. If there's a setting that would do that as well I'd be in awe.
In Options under tag sources there isn't a discogs entry so I'm lost.
If you have a look at the changelog in the head of the discogs.inc-websource-file you see the reason (Excerpt):
# [2026-05-22]
# CHG: automatically remove disambiguation numbers from ALBUMARTISTSORT.
# [2025-11-12]
# CHG: automatically remove disambiguation numbers from artist names.
No there are no settings for the discogs-websource-files.
The websource files are text-files. So you could edit the discogs.inc-file yourself and remove the code for these changes yourself.
However, you need to keep in mind that the web sources included with MP3tag get overwritten with every update. You can avoid this by creating a copy with a different name and modifying that instead of changing the original.
@hingehead In addition to the advice given by @poster, you could try using an earlier version of the script with a different name. (AFAIK they are included in the setup, so a temporary portable installation could help.)
Alternatively, you could compare an "older" ** Discogs script with the latest version to see where the changes to the disambiguation numbers occur.
Take a look, especially at these lines:
** Older Discogs-Script from Mp3tag v3.31i
(5.11.2025, please remove .txt from the filename after download): Discogs_v331i.inc.txt (14,8 KB)
