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| 12th Feb 2017, 8:27 AM | #1 REPORT | |
 | HOOK45 SUBS ● Quality above quantity Member since Feb 2010 42198 Points | It would be very helpful if we could copy at once all the traks from an existing CD album or vinyl album to a different issue with the same traks. |
| 12th Feb 2017, 11:49 AM | #2 REPORT | |
 | Fokeman I used to have a good memory but now I can't re Member since May 2011 5166 Points Moderator | This has already been suggested several times and is perhaps in the pipeline but I don't think it is available yet. |
| 12th Feb 2017, 3:25 PM | #3 REPORT | |
 | Orbiting Cat Member since Jan 2008 1191 Points Administrator | Will happen at some point, but not at the moment. |
| 12th Feb 2017, 8:29 PM | #4 REPORT | |
| HOOK45 SUBS ● Quality above quantity Member since Feb 2010 42198 Points | The albums databases would increase by skyrocketing. |
| 12th Feb 2017, 8:57 PM | #5 REPORT | |
 | Lee Wrecker If you can't dig me, you can't dig nothin' Member since Nov 2013 2283 Points | A potential problem is people could "cut and paste" or "import" corrupt data that has mistakes in it. Another is sometimes bits of data appear on one release but not another ie. composer credits may appear on a UK version of an album but not the Australian version. Composer credits also seem to an area that is riddled with industry mistakes from record companies and more so when albums are released in countries other than where the original album was released. The guidelines state copy information from the album as it appears and not enter a "corrected" version. What I'm getting at really is that there will be a trade off and that will be that the data may well not necessarily be the same on two different releases of the same album. So following the "give me convenience or give me death" brigade may well throw up as many problems as it solves. |
| 13th Feb 2017, 6:00 AM | #6 REPORT | |
 | PhilMH SUBS Member since Jan 2012 1058 Points | Good points, Lee. A large number of errors that I see at Discogs are due to the use of the "Copy to Draft" function and someone forgetting to change the country, label, catalogue number, date, or any combination thereof, plus the fact that the site isn't properly moderated (maybe someone will pick it up in 1, 2, 5, or 10 years time if they happen to be checking a particular artist, label or genre). If we are going to implement such a function, it might help to have a few error checks built in, such as a prompt that a particular field hasn't been changed, so that the person entering the release can double-check and click some sort of "verify" button (and there will be situations where the same details are valid), and if the link to the entry being copied is retained, that is something that our moderators could check against as well. This probably won't pick up all errors, but hopefully it will catch the majority of them. |
| 13th Feb 2017, 6:39 PM | #7 REPORT | |
 | Juke Jules SUBS Tell me he's lazy, tell me he's slow Member since Jan 2011 4151 Points Moderator | Good point, in turn, Phil, so it would be best not to copy those fields across, forcing a manual entry |
| 15th Feb 2017, 12:48 AM | #8 REPORT | |
 | ppint. Member since Aug 2012 6452 Points | forcing a verification check of the label, date, country flag & notes section before accepting as a new item any that's started by using a "copy all of this already-catted lp, cd or tape album" button if any or all of these fields be submitted unchanged seems a good idea, and providing each field with a radio button to offer the choice of a) editing the field, or b) confirming it should be identical sounds like the best way of achieving this. |
| 19th Feb 2017, 12:02 AM | #9 REPORT | |
| ady_lister Member since Aug 2012 826 Points | While I'd like to see a 'Duplicate Tracklist' button - it's not without issues. I'd found this Adam Ant LP in a box and cos it wasn't on the site, I did what I normally do, which is copy the tracklist from an existing entry, paste it into Excel and then just copy/paste it to a new entry. When I got to the end, I noticed I was a song short and the composer credits didn't match up. That was because the USA and UK tracklists are different and I would have just blindly assumed and duped the data if I hadn't noticed (very late, just before pressing 'submit'). |
| 19th Feb 2017, 6:32 AM | #10 REPORT | |
| ppint. Member since Aug 2012 6452 Points | but it's perfectly possible to make mistakes whilst keying-in information anyway - and the more one keys in, the greater the likelihood there is that one will make an error. being able to take an existing 33/cassette/cd 45worlds item as the pattern for modification is liable to reduce the number of errors made in keying-in, not increase errors. (one keeps an eye upon what one is typing, periodically checks it, then looks back over the the whole before tapping the "submit" button - but one's own tyops & literals are notoriously more difficult to spot than others' in proofreading: 's why one should also go back and check for such glitches the following day, or shortly after. . .) |
| 22nd Feb 2017, 10:48 AM | #11 REPORT | |
| YankeeDisc SUBS When in doubt.......accelerate........ Member since Dec 2010 734 Points | A feature to copy existing entries for other versions is already available on Discogs, I use it all the time, when copying say a UK vinyl album to a UK cassette version of the same title. Once copied, you can alter the catalogue number, country of origin, and alter playing order as necessary. I have to say it is very complicated, and replication is very common. I doubt that it would work with this site, as here it is necessary to keep moderators working diligently to keep it real. PhilMH - I have read your #6 comment. |
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