# \[WS\] Discogs Album search + VA
**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992
**Category:** Web Sources Scripts
**Created:** [May 23, 2005, 12:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992 "2005-05-23T12:08:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2005, 12:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/1 "2005-05-23T12:08:38Z")
**Mp3tag v2.33 or higher required**
(Based on the normal discogs script.)
[How do I install the script?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/2748/1) / [Wie installiere ich das Script?](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/2749/1)
**Normal infos:**
- **discogs.src**
Search by: **Album**
Imports: Artist, Album, Genre, Title, Year, Style, Publisher, Cover
**Extended infos** - **Mp3tag v2.50 required**
- **discogs-Release ID extended.src
discogs-Search by Artist + Title.src
discogs-Search by Artist + Album.src
discogs-Search by Album.src
discogs-Search by Artist.src**
Imports: Artist, Album, Genre, Title, Year, Band, Catalog No, Country, Discnumber, Full Date, Style, Publisher, Mediatype, Mixartist, Cover
Note: The Release ID is the number in the direct url of an album
Example: From [hxtp://www.discogs.com/release/123456](http://www.discogs.com/release/123456) it would be 123456
**Note:**
_This is a ready compiled version of the pone discogs script_
**Scripts with even more discogs tags and customization options are available here:**
[/t/9226/1](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/9226/1)
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[discogs\_extended\_21.zip](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/d/d5fea7ecb01e3a92b79ece9c82f8c1ac79d06f78.zip) (36.2 KB)
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### Author:  [@hm1234](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/hm1234)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2005, 4:55am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/2 "2005-06-23T04:55:04Z")
Hi.. (now running) but...
if you try to serach for Every Day [[http://www.discogs.com/release/38037](http://www.discogs.com/release/38037) ]
this release won't be displayed in the search results. There are some other results.. but that one is missing.
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [June 23, 2005, 10:04am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/3 "2005-06-23T10:04:31Z")
"Every Day" has 54 results:
[http://www.discogs.com/search?type=release...very+Day&btn=Go](http://www.discogs.com/search?type=releases&q=Every+Day&btn=Go)
Your album is on the last page, the script can only search on the first page.
~~Ok in this script you can search by Catalog#:~~
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### Author:  [@Ydope](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Ydope)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2005, 12:40am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/4 "2005-11-22T00:40:56Z")
Thanks for the great discogs\_release source. I'm using it all the time since i found it. 🙂
When i try to import
[http://www.discogs.com/release/23362](http://www.discogs.com/release/23362)
a part of the artist's name "3MB Featuring 'Magic' Juan Atkins" is missing. Probably because the hyperlink ends after that 3MB ?
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2005, 1:40am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/5 "2005-11-22T01:40:04Z")
Please try this one. Also test with other releases if you can, it has some new code.
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### Author:  [@Ydope](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Ydope)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2005, 12:10pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/6 "2005-11-22T12:10:40Z")
Thanks. That worked now. 🙂
Now look at this one: [http://www.discogs.com/release/32785](http://www.discogs.com/release/32785)
or
[http://www.discogs.com/release/32786](http://www.discogs.com/release/32786)
When there are two artists like this, it doesnt find the titles but puts the artist names instead.
I cant tell if the older verson did that, too.
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2005, 12:44pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/7 "2005-11-22T12:44:55Z")
Yes that's because these albums are various artists albums but the script does not recognize them as such.
Currently VA albums are only recognized if the artist begins with "Various" and I won't change that ATM.
As a workaround you can use this script that just always asumes that the album is VA
So you must switch between the 2 scripts yourself.
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### Author:  [@Ydope](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Ydope)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2005, 1:11pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/8 "2005-11-22T13:11:27Z")
Thanks,
I am happy with this solution but in this particular case it fails:
[http://www.discogs.com/release/137894](http://www.discogs.com/release/137894)
(the first track has got two artists divided by ' & ' and of these only the first artist is retrieved)
Thank for your fast answers, I know I'm a pain in the \*\*\* 🙂
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2005, 1:50pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/9 "2005-11-22T13:50:46Z")
Ok, it was also a problem on some other albums, so here's an update (both scripts)
Next update will be discogs\_album because that doesn't work at all anymore I think.
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### Author:  [@Ydope](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Ydope)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2005, 5:20pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/10 "2005-11-22T17:20:05Z")
Thanks, it worked
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### Author:  [@Ydope](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Ydope)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2005, 2:06am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/11 "2005-11-24T02:06:32Z")
Now after getting a lot of information from discogs thanks to your great scripts discogs\_release and discogs\_relaese-VA I just want to compile some kind of wishlist/things I noticed/questions:
1. I would really love to have the option to download all the pics. (btw it's great that the default name is folder.xxx)
2. When downloading pictures the default directory is the current directory MP3TAG is using. When working with complete labels (where the releases are in subfolders) I noticed I always have to select the specific subfolder where I want to put the picture in. If the selected files are all in one folder this folder could be used as default target folder. This would be a bit more easy.
3. From time to time, my mp3s are not in the same order as on discogs. That means first of all noticing this fact, closing the web sources window, renaming the selected files appropriately, re-sort the file list, re-selecting the files and then entering the discogs number again. I have no clue if any of these steps could be automated somehow...
4. Could the latest entered discogs number be preserved for the next time the script is started? Sometimes more than one try is necessary and the number has to be entered again. This would also make 3. a little bit more easy.
5. Is the Style (Techno, Ambient, etc.) information stored somewhere? If not, could I do this in a sensible way?
Thats all for now...
Some of the questions are rather stupid probably, sorry for that.
Thanks again,
-Y
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2005, 10:20am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/12 "2005-11-24T10:20:02Z")
1: I don't think that's possible with the current design.
2: That's already changed in the latest [Development Build](http://developer.mp3tag.de)
3+4: I can only give you some tips:
To change the position in the file list you can also drag the files while holding ALT key.
You could also save the ID in the COMMENT field first and in the src file change the line
[SearchBy]=
to
[SearchBy]=%comment%
1. Styles are saved in a custom STYLES tag. You can see it when you press ALT+T or click on  or add a new column
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### Author:  [@Ydope](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Ydope)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2005, 4:42pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/13 "2005-11-24T16:42:19Z")
[http://www.discogs.com/release/308848](http://www.discogs.com/release/308848)
discogs release gives me 4 results instead of 3. It doesnt really make much of a difference but I'm wondering what the reason may be...
Edit: weird, [http://www.discogs.com/release/338710](http://www.discogs.com/release/338710) and [http://www.discogs.com/release/362656](http://www.discogs.com/release/362656) also do this now, i'll have to try more releases with \<4 tracks.
They're all reported now as having 4 tracks, the additional tracks have no title.
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2005, 5:33pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/14 "2005-11-24T17:33:15Z")
Well for whatever reason they put empty table rows at the end of the song list, but there are also proper layouts:
[http://www.discogs.com/release/414841](http://www.discogs.com/release/414841)
But I could easily fix it i hope..
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### Author:  [@Ydope](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Ydope)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2005, 10:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/15 "2005-11-24T22:45:30Z")
Its not a real problem anyway... Should i get that test version and do something with it?
A different idea: if the picture file is something.jpeg better rename it to folder.jpg instead of folder.jpeg because windows doesnt understand .jpeg and only displayes a small thumbnail in that case.
BTW am I the only one using this incredibly useful tool? I cant believe it...
Massive praise to Florian and dano!
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2005, 11:18pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/16 "2005-11-24T23:18:46Z")
Yes you should try it out and test it if possible
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### Author:  [@Ydope](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Ydope)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2005, 4:34am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/17 "2005-11-27T04:34:07Z")
> [@](#):
>
> You could also save the ID in the COMMENT field first and in the src file change the line
> [SearchBy]=
> to
> [SearchBy]=%comment%
Tested the discogs release test now. No problems. The discogs-id-in-comment-thingie works fine.
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### Author:  [@Ydope](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Ydope)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2005, 1:54pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/18 "2005-11-29T13:54:36Z")
After some hundered tagged albums something didnt work:
[http://www.discogs.com/release/440078](http://www.discogs.com/release/440078)
The artist name is "seltsam&strahler".
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### Author:  [@Ydope](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Ydope)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2005, 12:51am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/19 "2005-12-01T00:51:10Z")
[http://www.discogs.com/release/43501](http://www.discogs.com/release/43501)
Instead of
The History Of The House Sound Of Chicago
the scripts retrieves:
The History Of The House Sound Of Chicago
That is one space too much after the third word. Strange one...
Edit: hmm, this forum cuts the extra space, but it's there.
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### Author:  [@Ydope](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Ydope)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2005, 1:11am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/20 "2005-12-01T01:11:41Z")
[http://www.discogs.com/release/17549](http://www.discogs.com/release/17549)
In this case the thumbnailed preview is not shown, probably becaue it's a .png
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