In the last few months I had very little time to look at anything related to Discogs because of work. The fact that Discogs was also very late releasing their monthly data dump in February (and changed the format, which kind of broke my scripts) didn't exactly help either. In the last few days I revisited Discogs and after a few minutes the frustration I have felt in the past immediately returned. Basically it all boils down to the following: people are (still!) allowed to put all kinds of garbage into the database and very often this can be completely prevented, as I have argued before and let Discogs staff know many times over the last (nearly) 3 years. I started doing some minor cleanups and it just feels a bit useless: I have been doing the same clean ups for the last few years, so why do I even bother fixing it if the guardians of the database don't seem to care themselves? A lot of time is now wasted on trivial cleanups which also could have gone to adding data to the
A blog dedicated to two of my hobbies: vinyl records and digital data and exploring where the two intersect. This blog is not affiliated with Discogs, but uses a lot of its data. On Discogs you can find me as metalmijn. I also get a lot of help from a friend you can find on Discogs as gerjolp Check out my Discogs cleanup scripts at: https://github.com/armijnhemel/cleanup-for-discogs/