I use Discogs as a reference, especially for figuring out song titles when I dub a tape with no 
labelling (ie when I'm given a transfer job by a collector with the mandate "get my old tapes into 
my iPod"). Also, now that Tag&Rename has hooked into Discogs, it's a quick and easy way to populate 
metadata into my LP transfers on their way into my digital library. I've only bought one record via 
Discogs, and found the experience disappointing. I prefer eBay, which is more buyer-friendly.

For a crowd-sourced database, I've found Discogs to be surprisingly accurate about stuff like song 
titles and sequences, although I haven't looked up overly obscure LPs. Since I tend to be in the 
jazz and rock realms, I think there are enough datapoints to be accurate.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Ramm" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2015 5:51 PM
Subject: [ARSCLIST] Discogs Turns Record Collectorsâ?T Obsess ions Into Big Busines


> This should get a few responses here ;-)
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/30/business/media/discogs-turns-record-collec
> tors-obsessions-into-big-business.html?hpw
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> Steve Ramm
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