# \[WS\] Discogs (pone mod)

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-pone-mod/9226
**Category:** Broken Web Sources
**Created:** [October 29, 2009, 3:18am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-pone-mod/9226 "2009-10-29T03:18:24Z")
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### Author: ![pone](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/pone/32/272_2.png) [@pone](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/pone)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2011, 10:05am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-pone-mod/9226/128 "2011-05-23T10:05:52Z")

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> [@\[WS\] Discogs ALL](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/ws-discogs-all/8641/195):
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> What is this suppose to mean?
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> Tag Sources - Discogs Pone - Search by artist and it gives me this

This means that you did not read [my instructions](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/9226/1) carefully enough.

Either (a) you deleted the fields DISCOGS\_ALBUMARTIST and DISCOGS\_ARTIST in the _Discogs Pone Web Script Settings.mp3_ file, or ( b ) you exported the web scripts from a different file.

If a:  
Don't delete tag fields in the _Discogs Pone Web Script Settings.mp3_ file. Set the value of the fields which you don't want to "no". If you did delete fields, you have to download the file again.

If b:  
Step 4 of my instruction: load _Discogs Pone Web Script Settings.mp3_ into Mp3tag  
The action groups in Step 5 and 7 are meant to be run on that file.

some details on the search string:

The search by (album)artist searches for:  
$regexp($if2($regexp(%albumartist%,^va$,Various,1),%artist%),The (.\*),$1)

That means, it searches for %albumartist% if that field is present, or it search for %artist% if %albumartist% is not present.  
There are some replacements which are made with the search string:

- "va" is replaced by "Various"
- A leading "The" is deleted from the search string, beacause you get better search result in most cases.

"albumartist" and "artist" are the standard values of the fields DISCOGS\_ALBUMARTIST and DISCOGS\_ARTIST in the _Discogs Pone Web Script Settings.mp3_ file. If you replace this with other values (e.g. "album artist"), these other values are taken for the search.

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