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:
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…
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…