Discogs Database

[Marco_Belemmi]

I have just finished the huge job of converting my entire vinyl and cd collection to digital music and the frustrating result is that around 250 titles have not been recognized or identified, despite having tried every possible way. It seems to me that Roon works with the Allmusic database and therefore is very limited in the number of titles on the list, for example the albums of important jazz labels such as Nagel Heyer or 2xHD are almost never recognized, and this fact for me is a serious lack.
So I wonder: why not work with the Discogs database? This database is very accurate and all unrecognized titles are present. In addition, Discogs is infinitely more accurate than Allmusic database.

[Geoff_Coupe]

There are a number of existing Feature Requests for Discogs, but AFAIK (and I don’t speak for them), Roon Labs take on integrating Discogs remains as it was a few years ago:

Music File Management

Our users have been pointing at Discogs as a silver bullet since day one. We’ve done a fair bit of investigation. While we will probably do something with it in the future, if we thought it was going to cure significant problems, it would have been integrated a long time ago. Remember–the purpose of identifying content is so that we can enhance it with additional metadata or link it to things, not just identification for the sake of identification. So when we look at a data set, we are looking…

You and Roon: Monogamy or Polygamy?

To be clear, we still plan to use their data at some point. It’s not off of the roadmap. But, especially in the metadata space where we have a lot of irons in the fire, we will always tend to prioritize things that deliver the most value/effort. The point I was making above is that the amount of value present is not huge–significantly smaller than I would have been led to expect based on the enthusiasm in the feature request. This is in part because Discogs is a small data source, in part becau…

[Marco_Belemmi]

Thank you, I hope Roon developers change their minds about Discogs, as there is no doubt that it represents an immense treasure of data compiled with love by discogs users