# \[WS\] 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:** 4
### Author:  [@C-Dog](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/C-Dog)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2009, 8:54am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/61 "2009-10-03T08:54:54Z")
Thanks for the new discogs-releaseID-script! Works great with normal releases. But I've got a problem with "Various"-releases. The script reads the different artists with " -" at the end (because discogs adds " - " between artist and title). Maybe you could remove them in your script?
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### Author:  [@gcmobile](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/gcmobile)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2009, 11:50am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/62 "2009-10-08T11:50:43Z")
Hi there!
The source at the site have been changed again 
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2009, 12:59pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/63 "2009-10-08T12:59:24Z")
Oh well..
next update, now with credits and notes
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### Author:  [@gcmobile](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/gcmobile)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2009, 3:23pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/64 "2009-10-08T15:23:30Z")
Thank you again! 
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### Author:  [@C-Dog](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/C-Dog)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2009, 4:32pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/65 "2009-10-08T16:32:48Z")
big thanks for this 🙂
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### Author:  [@adrian.berger](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/adrian.berger)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2009, 9:42am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/66 "2009-10-09T09:42:41Z")
big thanks as well for the update
I have just one suggestion: Often you see artists like this "Hugo (2)" (-\> [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Hugo+%282%29](http://www.discogs.com/artist/Hugo+%282%29)), because there are many know artists with the same name. I personally don't like this, I just want the artist name without the brackets. Therefore I added the statement _regexpreplace "(\d+)\*" ""_ in every tag that is somehow related to artist information, namely _artist, mixartist, album artist, credits, notes_
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### Author:  [@C-Dog](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/C-Dog)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2009, 12:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/67 "2009-10-10T12:47:39Z")
For those who like to get the Track-positions (A1,A2,...), just add the following lines between the "do" and "moveline" (there are two positions like this in the discogs.src - you need to add it to both):
```
# Track Temp
outputto "Track Temp"
findinline ""
sayuntil " | "
say "|"
```
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### Author:  [@pone](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pone)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2009, 2:57am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/68 "2009-10-30T02:57:19Z")
seems like the scripts for extended infos have a little problem at discnumber, track temp & mixartist with single track releases. it writes the correct information, but it is followed by "|". If no information is present at these tags, there is only "|".
examples:
[http://www.discogs.com/release/1741359](http://www.discogs.com/release/1741359)
[http://www.discogs.com/release/1311495](http://www.discogs.com/release/1311495)
[http://www.discogs.com/release/1941108](http://www.discogs.com/release/1941108)
could not figure out what causes the problem
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### Author:  [@da66en](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/da66en)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2009, 1:19am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/69 "2009-11-11T01:19:31Z")
Finding by Artist is not working well.
For example, try
Lucidstatic
A few albums do not show up.
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### Author:  [@Stomper](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Stomper)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/70 "2009-12-01T18:48:18Z")
> [@dano](#):
>
> **Mp3tag v2.33 or higher required**
> ...
Is this the latest discogs build for relaes id extended? I cant get it to work. It picks up no track details and gives me an error on style ☹
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2009, 10:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/71 "2009-12-01T22:37:35Z")
 Updated again.
-Added shortcuts to the file names.
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### Author:  [@Andy\_D](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Andy_D)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2009, 3:56pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/72 "2009-12-03T15:56:10Z")
Hi dano,
sometimes &discogs#Search by A&rtist.src isn't working but &discogs#&List Artist Releases.src. and vice versa.
And for this [Band](http://www.discogs.com/artist/m%C3%BAm) Search By Artist finds 20 releases but List Artist Releases finds 58.
😳
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### Author:  [@dano](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/dano)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2009, 4:28pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/73 "2009-12-03T16:28:50Z")
"Search By Artist" actually searches for the artist and is limited to 20 results
"List Artist Release" just appends the artist tag to the discogs url
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### Author:  [@Andy\_D](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Andy_D)
#### Post date: [December 4, 2009, 1:12pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/74 "2009-12-04T13:12:22Z")
ahh, ok.
thx 🙂
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### Author:  [@gcmobile](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/gcmobile)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2009, 8:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/75 "2009-12-09T20:47:27Z")
thank you 4 the update 
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### Author:  [@unexist](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/unexist)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2010, 7:33am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/76 "2010-04-02T07:33:52Z")
Hey,
I have an issue with discogs search on release! I tried 2 different albums but it seems it gets no Track information. The fields from 1 to e.g. 20 remains empty. Did discogs update their page or what am I do wrong? It worked fine for me the last 2 months...
Maybe the web source script needs an update? Two examples where the script didn't get any infomation on the tracks:
[http://www.discogs.com/release/2163994](http://www.discogs.com/release/2163994)
[http://www.discogs.com/release/2197199](http://www.discogs.com/release/2197199)
best regards,
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### Author:  [@Gungnir666](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Gungnir666)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2010, 7:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/77 "2010-04-02T07:39:58Z")
Same here, seems like all the discogs script do not work anymore. I think everything is still working, however the track names are not getting downloaded. Can someone offer a solution?
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### Author:  [@gcmobile](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/gcmobile)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2010, 5:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/78 "2010-04-02T17:00:33Z")
ty for update 
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### Author:  [@brandon210](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/brandon210)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/79 "2010-04-02T20:52:18Z")
FWIW, Discogs changed the layout of the 'tracklisting', to add new tables and search for those tracks in iTunes. I noticed the errors started when this change tookplace.
As to someone's earlier question about names like Juan Atkin 3mb, you have to use the MAIN name, not an ANV and not a 'featured' name.
So for release [http://www.discogs.com/Hakan-Lidbo-A-Chain...release/2203298](http://www.discogs.com/Hakan-Lidbo-A-Chain-Of-Unpredictable-Reactions/release/2203298), you can't search for artist 'Hakan Lidbo', you have to search for 'HÃ¥kan Lidbo'. It's a bit of a pain at first, but once you get used to it, you can go rather smoothly.
One thing I'd like to see is the ability to search Discogs by RELEASE NAME... this would allow us to look up 'various' artist compilations.
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### Author:  [@LaatR](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LaatR)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2010, 9:35am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-album-search-va/1992/80 "2010-04-04T09:35:58Z")
First of all, thanks for the update!
But in the newest version of the script, there's a little bug. When you try to import from the Discogs-source with 'Release ID' from a track that has an inch-character in the name (for example, when there is a 12" Remix, see [http://www.discogs.com/release/212877](http://www.discogs.com/release/212877) ), the closing tag of the TD is imported in the title.
Hope you can fix this soon, thanks in advance!
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