One field in the "barcode and other identifiers" section in Discogs that is fairly new is the ISRC field. I have written about ISRC before, so you might want to read those posts first.
Before there was a dedicated ISRC field the ISRC codes would be put into fields like "Other" or "Barcode" so I wondered: how well are these being updated and replaced by ISRC fields?
I checked the dumps from the last 6 months:
So in 8 months time the number of problematic releases has more than halved, while the amount of releases in the database with ISRC codes has increased. With a bit of luck all of these will have been fixed in the next half year. Impressive.
Before there was a dedicated ISRC field the ISRC codes would be put into fields like "Other" or "Barcode" so I wondered: how well are these being updated and replaced by ISRC fields?
I checked the dumps from the last 6 months:
- May 2019 dump: 22,391 releases
- June 2019 dump: 21,096 releases
- July 2019 dump: 19,214 releases
- August 2019 dump: 15,161 releases
- September 2019 dump: 13,390 releases
- October 2019 dump: 12,090 releases
- November 2019 dump: 11,360 releases
- December 2019 dump: 10,578 releases
So in 8 months time the number of problematic releases has more than halved, while the amount of releases in the database with ISRC codes has increased. With a bit of luck all of these will have been fixed in the next half year. Impressive.
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