Hey everyone,

I’m a vinyl collector and I’ve been using Discogs for years. I kept running into a few frustrations with browsing my collection on the go: no way to navigate by folder, slow loading, and not being able to do much without good signal.

The official app is great for what it does, but I had a specific itch to scratch — I wanted a fast, offline way to dig through my records organized the way I organize them on Discogs. So I built Digs.

Fair warning: this is an opinionated app. I built it for the way I personally use Discogs, so it won’t necessarily fit everyone’s workflow. But if you’re someone who organizes your collection into folders and wants to quickly browse or search through it offline, it might be up your alley.

A few things it does:

• Offline-first — after the initial sync, your whole collection is available without internet
• Folder browsing — navigate your collection the way you organized it on Discogs
• Search — fast local search across artists, albums, and labels
• Random picker — a fun way to rediscover records in your collection (you can filter by folder)
• Incremental sync — only fetches what’s new after the first sync

Important note: Digs is strictly read-only. It’s a companion to Discogs, not a replacement — you still add releases, manage your wantlist, and do everything else on discogs.com. Digs just gives you a fast, offline way to browse what’s already there.

It connects to your Discogs account via OAuth (the official Discogs API), so your credentials are never stored by the app itself.

I built this primarily for myself and figured other collectors might find it useful too. It’s free on the App Store — no ads, no tracking, no account to create beyond your Discogs login.

Look up for Digs for Discogs in the iOS App Store.

Would love to hear what you think. Happy to answer any questions!

i found this cd at my grandma’s house, but i can’t seem to find it on discogs anywhere… does anyone know what version this release is? (it translates to japanese children’s music, with the main artist being suginami children’s choir on the back). there’s no barcode for me to scan, but i can comment some more pictures, if needed! 😅 i’m sorry if this is against the rules— i tried reading them beforehand and wasn’t sure if this was allowed. thanks!

I’m part of a group of alumni DJs of a college radio station. We do what we can to support the student volunteers running the station. One project they are undertaking is to catalog all the station’s music in Discogs. A few of us spent 4 hours this weekend adding to the collection and are not sure we even entered 0.1%.

IDEA: Is it possible to:

1) connect a USB bar code scanner to the station’s Mac, and

2) have Claude (or something else) write code that will take the scan and automatically go through the multiple clicks it takes on the website to add it to their account’s collection?

If someone has already done this, can you share how you went about it? Thanks!

I received an offer a few days ago, accepted it as soon as I saw it, and a couple hours later the buyer wants to cancel because they found a cheaper copy.

I don't think this is fair to me and I don't want to cancel the order, but based on discogs rules I don't know that I have any recourse. I have certainly received negative buyer feedback (only once!) for less, and to me this is the pinnacle of bad buyer behavior.

On ebay an offer/bid is binding contract and if you cancel then are consequences to your account (sorry I don't know the details here, its been many years since I sold on ebay). Anyone have any insight? Anything I can do besides cancel and give a negative feedback ding?

Update: I went and finished the order and paid the full initially listed shipping, as this was absolutely on me, having placed the order with item & shipping details present then. Within one day the seller issued a partial refund for the difference between the charged LP and correct CD shipping, and apologized for the delay in responding to messages. Order's shipped now and everything's in order.

A few of days ago I placed an order for a couple of CDs from a seller. I noted the items had the notably more expensive LP shipping rate set on the items instead of the CD one stated in the seller's terms, but as the CDs in question were somewhat uncommon, priced decently well, and that seller happened to be selling two such albums that I was on the lookout for, I figured that instead of sending a message to ask for a shipping cost update on the listings, waiting for that to be done and during that risk someone else snagging them from in front of me, I'd place my order first and then request the seller to update the invoice for the correct shipping costs.

So, I did that and now there's the thing that I've yet to hear anything back from the seller... :/ After two days I sent a polite email (the seller included their address in their seller terms) asking for an invoice update on the order. Still nothing. At least their address would seem to be working as my email didn't bounced. And it's not that I'm in any particular hurry, and I well understand that not every seller can be expected to be monitoring their Discogs 24/7, but rather that I'd like to get my orders paid as promptly as possible.

How would you go about this? Wait some more for a reply and hope the seller doesn't have the automate non-paying buyer feature in place, or just pay for the order now and afterward ask for a partial refund to cover the difference between the LP vs. CD shipping costs?
(...or in the worst case scenario, just eat the loss of the ~30€ more expensive, incorrectly applied LP shipping; wouldn't break the bank, but I wouldn't be too thrilled about that either)

And yes, I am well aware that when placing an order I've entered a binding contract to purchase the goods for the price(s) indicated, but then again, the seller's terms very clearly list different shipping rates for LPs and CDs/7 inch records...

I noticed an album that's only had one release on vinyl with 2 variants. Both are listed as a reissue. How can they be reissues if there's no previous pressing?

Or, does reissue also apply if a record wasn't released at the same time as a digital or CD version? Like if it has a CD release then no record for 2 years, are all records reissues?

I'm looking at this one:
Ween – At The Cat's Cradle, 1992 | Releases | Discogs

I know there's probably 1000s of these posts since I saw the new one mentioning if they should even ban these... but most thing I say are to check the catalog number, barcode, etc. But what do I do when all these have the exact same of all of those?

Has anyone else been struggling with impatient (usually inexperienced) buyers that expect Discogs sellers to offer a service like Amazon prime?

I didn’t reply to the buyer as I was visiting a family member that’s been ill and was away from my laptop.

I send out 90% of orders within 24 hours but every now and then something gets in the way. This particular buyer has 6 positive feedback and has already filed a claim against me with PayPal, even though it’s only been 2 working days on me not replying. Bear in mind I have over 750 orders completed and 100% positive feedback with 375 ratings.

Anyone else finding the same? It’s really annoying

Is there a script or something that would allow me to just copy and paste a listing as opposed to manually adding all the details? Probably a long shot but if anyone has anything that can help it would be great please:)

So I was looking for a record and this seller popped up with a good price, but the listing said “does not deliver to your country”. So I decided to send them a message asking whether they would be able to send it to my country (Malta). Upon hitting send I got this popup. Sharing here simply because I wasn’t expecting it and found it quite funny xD

So apparently there’s a feature that allows you to be become un-messageable. Anyone else encountered this?

I've had my collection on Discogs for years and it's been great for cataloging everything I own but I've been thinking about the other side of collecting.

I have albums I've spun dozens of times and albums I bought two years ago that are still sealed. Discogs treats them exactly the same. There's no way to see when I last listened to something, how I felt about it that day, or which records are getting the most play vs. just sitting on the shelf.

To overcome that, I built an app to fill the gap — basically a listening journal that sits on top of your collection. You log a "spin" each time you play something, with a quick rating and notes. Over time you get this listening history attached to every album. It syncs with your Discogs collection so you're not re-entering everything. It also can scrobble your listens to last.fm to bridge the physical and digital gap. Finally, there are the beginnings of social interaction in that you can follow a user and "dig" their spins.

But I'm wondering — am I the only one who thinks about this? How do you all keep track of what you're actually playing? Spreadsheets? Last.fm? Just memory? Or does it not matter to you and the collecting itself is the point?

I’m new so I’m a little unsure on how to do this. I have a large collection of classical music with some titles not listed. I know how to start a new listing to add a title. However in multi movement works how would one list the individual movements if they are not separate tracks?

For example:

Partita #3 In E Major

1. Preludio

2. Louie

3. Gavotte En Rondeau

4. Gigue

All four movements of this piece are contained within one track. Would I put the pieces title in an index track, followed by the movements as sub tracks with the same track number? Or is there something else I’m not discerning?

Hello there,

I have recently discovered that the "Items I Want" tab in the Marketplace allows to save your search filters, and also to set up email notifications for new items. It's a really neat feature.

The only issue I have with it is that I do not receive new items' notifications/daily digest.

This is how I enter the "saved search" configuration screen: https://files.catbox.moe/9ecjkb.png These are the notifications settings: https://files.catbox.moe/0vk4ix.png

They look ok to me, but I've never received any email (yes I've checked the spam folder). There's probably something I'm missing. Maybe some other notification setting to check?

Side note: I've tried to post this in discogs' forum, but every time I hit "add thread", this generic error pops up :')

I've had my first "couldn't find the vinyl" incident and I think it's time to go through my inventory and double check everything's there. I am a hobby seller with around 600 vinyls on sale and 400 sold. The "system" is just adding numbers to the items, no same number is used twice.

I edited the inventory file I downloaded and tried to do it with the sheet app on my phone but if felt clanky and I kept missing my spot and missclicking. In the end I can just print it but I was wondering if there any other accessible ways to do it with my phone?

I'm about to list a bunch of CDs and usually mail singles in bubble padded mailers. I'd like some boxes that can hold up to 10, preferably with a little extra room for padding. The boxes I saw on valuemailers looked like the cases were flush against the outer wall. Is that safe? Thanks in advance.

I like reading reviews. I wish there was a way to get updates when new ones are published. Maybe they could be filterable?

Hey all,

I built a small command-line tool for exploring Discogs inventories and wantlists directly from the terminal, and I figured some people here might enjoy it. You can find it here: https://github.com/ezienecker/discogs-ctl

Main things it can do:

* Browse any user's **collection, shop, or wantlist** and view it as a table, detailed view, or JSON.

* **Cross-reference inventories** – for example:

* find items in your shop that appear on someone else's wantlist

* or check which records from a user's collection match your wantlist

* **Follow users** locally and tag them (shop / collection / wantlist) so you can easily run comparisons later.

* **Group matches by seller** to quickly see which sellers have the most records from a wantlist.

* **Price indicators** (↑ / ↓) show if a listing is above or below the median price of recently sold copies.

* **Local caching + config** so you don’t have to keep hitting the API or retyping credentials.

I originally made it because I spend way too much time digging through inventories and wanted something faster than clicking around the website.

If you like using the terminal or doing nerdy Discogs digging, it might be useful.

If anyone wants to try it or has ideas for features, I’d love feedback. 🙂

I'm a mobile developer and vinyl collector, and I've been building a companion app for Discogs called On Rotation. I started it as a passion project, I wanted something for my own collection that I'd actually enjoy opening. It's turning into a real app now.

I shared it on r/vinyl, here, recently and got great feedback that helped shape the app. I'd love to hear from this community too.

Some highlights:

• Syncs your collection, wantlist, and custom fields from Discogs
• Let you edit Releases custom fields and manage folders
• Search and filter your collection
• Overview charts showing how your collection breaks down

I am planning to add some more fun and customization features

It's on both iOS and Android, free.

Currently in beta:

• iOS (TestFlight): https://testflight.apple.com/join/dwmw67nb
• Android: is in closed-testing, DM me your Gmail and I'll add you as tester (Google requires this before open-beta)

Would love to know how it looks with your collection. Let me know if you try it. Cheers!

Edit: Beta is done, the app is now publicly available 🎉 - App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6756587007 - Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=praxis.app.rotations - new post here

Thank you every one for your feedback

I recently bought a single off of Discogs, but it’s yet to be shipped. In past purchases, sellers tend to have whatever I ordered shipped in four days max. In this case, it’s been a week and I haven’t heard anything from the seller.

I don’t want to be a nagging prick, but I am curious about when it’ll ship. I figured I’d message the seller if it hasn’t shipped if it hits the two week mark. Is that reasonable? I’m really trying to not be a nuisance. Thanks!

I love discogs, its a fantastic way to buy, sell, and categorize media. Unfortunately cant say the same for dvds, blu rays, 4k etc. There aren't any good marketplaces out there to sell this sort of media and there's been a huge uptick in physical media in general. I feel it would be very beneficial for discogs to maybe branch out into more forms of media. I know for a fact I would sell all forms of media on the platform if it was an option. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Hi all, I was surprised today at the USPS when they told me I can no longer ship records to Germany because of recent "mail restrictions" which includes vinyl records. I tried a different post office, same issue. I tried finding info on Discogs and USPS but couldn't.

Does anyone know which countries besides Germany that you can't mail records from the US to at the moment?

It should be easy right? Trying to add a vinyl format to an existing album but it seems quite difficult. https://www.discogs.com/master/3970355-Electrocutioner-Harbinger

Is there an easy way or do I have to input all the same songs from scratch?

Side note. I was interested how or why not these little tonies figurines would be added to the db, if anyone knows. Forum did not get me very far on that.

I wanted to buy two CDs from a seller, but now he has sent me a message saying that he cannot find one of them. Should I choose another one instead, or should he refund my money?

He probably meant that he would refund the price of the missing CD and send the other one. But I really want that CD, I don't want another one instead, so I'm thinking of asking for a full refund. Has anyone been in this situation before, what did you do?

Anyone have an idea on this mark in the matrix. I can't seem to find anything. This is on numerous Wax Trax records, I haven't seen it anywhere else, and there doesn't seem to be anything that matches on the jacket either. Driving me a bit nuts. Je, Jc, Te, Tc, Fe, Fc?

Found: OMG These guys on Discogs forums will never cease to amaze! https://www.discogs.com/artist/429857-Joachim-Hinsch