Some countries require that music releases have certain identifiers on them. A well known example is the depósito legal identifier in Spain that I wrote about several times before. But other countries have it similar things as well. One of them is India, which for new releases requires a so called "PKD". This code contains the month and year in which the release was made, or at least when it was packed (I have seen it being talked about as both a production date, as well as a packaging date). One of my friends at Discogs (gerjolp) looked into these codes a bit, but could not find many references, just a few forum threads and the exact meaning remains a bit unclear, also because sometimes the date seems to have been stamped instead of printed, and this is not clear from the data in the database. PKD codes in Discogs There are 132 releases from India in the latest Discogs dump where it is easy to find the PKD code in BaOI. There are likely many more releases in Disco...
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/