Sure. Here's the vital bits of the ticket. Original post, & follow ups over the last months:
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Heya,
I thought the forum might be a good start for this, but looks like it's too broad/dev centric and it's already on page 3.. so I doubt I ever get any info there:
https://www.discogs.com/forum/thread/710721So I thought I'd ask directly at the source:
I'm on a mission to re-tag my digital library of records I own… and one shortcoming, which has been in discussion for a while, is biting me again – and I'm wondering where this is at, with the discogs team officially as well as with the community.
In my mind, to make discogs even better than it already is – each track of an artists should have its own 2 dates as well, [managed through a "master-track" page (which does not seem to exist and would probably be a bigger undertaking, but might be something like this is in the cards already ?].
This is not an easy feat, but it would benefit all of us by allowing us:
- to browse an artists body of work from 2 angles, from a media angle (albums/singles/compilations) as well as a 'track/song' angle and a more chronologically/accurate representation of the same, not tied to a (physical) medium
- compilations / re-issues could more accurately display the release date of each song on on it (when each son on it was created/released first) as well as Original Release (of the master release) VS media-centric release date (of the re-issue).
There's a lot of old threads about this, I stopped when I found a half dozen of them, and all were locked, with no official statement regarding this:
https://www.discogs.com/forum/thread/160357#2062039https://www.discogs.com/forum/thread/272325#2961793https://www.discogs.com/forum/thread/349734#3286038https://www.discogs.com/forum/thread/366661#3399853Probably the most accurate wording, release (recording) VS manufacturing date:
https://www.discogs.com/forum/thread/343676#3226263Would be great to get some more current info on this topic.
Cheers.
c.
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#----------------said 6 months ago ------------------#
We are working on a beta version of a feature that could provide some (or all!) of these functions you are envisioning. We will make an announcement when we have the first iteration of this for everyone to look at. I can't promise anything, but hopefully in under 3 months. I look forward to you trying it out and giving us more feedback!
Thanks,
Nik
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#---------------said 3 months ago -------------------#
Hey Nik,
I had a look around on the forum &
https://blog.discogs.com/tag/engineering/ hoping for some news on this but without much avail - so I thought I'd ask directly if there's more info or even the "initial release will be very basic" available by now ?
Churs & all the bestest.
c.
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#---------------said 2 months ago -------------------#
Hi,
We are still working on the feature here. Things are going to plan and there should start to surface some beta functionality within a fre months.
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I'd really hope they'll add some more single track date fields and some sort of master-song page.
But, it's more slow than announced then... so we'll need to see with what comes around the corner whenever they are happy to show something... but interesting breadcrumbs/developments...
c.