If you have not edited many Discogs entries in the past, your changes will probably be held until somebody approves them, so you may not be able to do it immediately.

Quote from: frogworth on 2019-10-08 01:07:05

If you have not edited many Discogs entries in the past, your changes will probably be held until somebody approves them, so you may not be able to do it immediately.

Discogs edits now happen immediately and anyone with a Discogs account can edit a release. If some other user disagrees with the edit, they can choose to comment, vote or revert the change. Any edits have to conform to Discogs RSG

Quote from: GroovyWaves on 2019-08-28 20:26:25

Hi zoomorph,

First, thank you for continuing the development of that Foobar plugin, it probably is the best option to get the most metadata from Discogs nowadays.

I do vinyl restoration regularly and I was thinking about writing matrix / runout infos in audio files, I'm guessing it's not implemented in the plugin at the moment? I tested the "barcode" field for CDs and this works great though.

Seems like the field for vinyl is called "Matrix / Runout" in the Discogs API.

Correct, it's currently not available in foo_discogs. There can be multiple Matrix / Runout variants for a single release. Not sure how this should be handled.

Late reply on my end.

If there are matrix variants for a single release, I seem to recall each should be separated in its own release page. I don't think I've seen one release page with multiple matrix variants, but I could be wrong.

One edition of a release may have many different matrix numbers on individual copies - especially for major label releases. These are considered manufacturing variations for the purposes of cataloguing on Discogs, and not unique releases, so one Discogs 'release' may contain multiple variations in matrix numbers etc. For smaller releases, or in special cases, the matrix variation may indicate a unique release / edition, so please ask in the Database Forum Topic if in doubt.

@fuffi It may also depend on which OS you're running foobar2000 on. I can't guess what you're running from your user agent, because that's kind of prying, and the two user agents I have seen from you don't agree completely.

Windows virtual machine? Which Windows? It may be a case of legacy Windows versions not being tested properly, if you're using the long out of support XP. It almost makes me wonder why Peter and I continue to build with the XP supporting toolchains, when at least I don't actually bother to do any testing to see if anything actually blows up there, and I don't know what Peter does for old OS testing, other than maybe doing some targeted testing when someone points out a bug.

Quote from: fuffi on 2019-09-20 08:01:09

Thank you for testing. Strange....I don't know if something changed on the discogs side, because their API give and gave the correct result.
I just wasn't shown in the releases tab of the fine component.

I guess its the same strange phenomen in the component like here: https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php?topic=50523.msg967983#msg967983 (you clearly see it in the animated gif)

The component swallows some information retrieved from the cache under some unclear circumstances :-)

If it worked the first time, then it should continue to display the same result while the info is in the foo_discogs cache (unless there's a bug in foo_discogs). Not working 5 hours later suggests to me that some or all of the info was probably kicked out of the foo_discogs cache by then and so it was reloaded from the Discogs API. The Discogs API could have returned something different at that point, or there could be a bug in foo_discogs (ie. maybe something goes wrong if part of the data is cached while another part is reloaded).

It's always hard to investigate a bug that can't be reliably reproduced. This seems to happen rarely so perhaps it's not worth putting much effort into. I played around a little with a small cache size in foo_discogs, but wasn't able to trigger it.

As for that other one about the country being displayed in the find release dialog, I suspect that one is probably related to the Discogs API search endpoint sometimes returning country and sometimes not (at least that's how it used to be). The release endpoint, which is loaded after you press "Next>>", always returns country. So when the results are repopulated when you go back and change the filter, the new information is reflected there.

Not sure if dev wants individual releases that cause errors, but here's one:

https://www.discogs.com/Sonny-Rollins-The-Freelance-Years-The-Complete-Riverside-Contemporary-Recordings/release/5315647

(FATAL) Error: Error loading release 5315647: JSON Parser ExceptionError parsing release credits.

[ESCAPE to close]

Thelonious Monk (tracks: 1-1 to 1-)

why track 2 & 4 would cause foo_discogs to spew out:
"(FATAL) Error: Error generating tag DISCOGS_ARTISTS_ALIASES [] for file file://D:\* *\02-Kraut feat. Bachan-Lentamente.flac

(FATAL) Error: Error generating tag ALBUM ARTIST [] for file file://E:\test\test.mp3

[ESCAPE to close]

$multi_if($multi_and($any($contains($first(%<<RELEASE_FORMATS_DESCRIPTIONS>>%),$array(Compilation,Mixed))),$multi_greater($length($unique($flatten(%<<RELEASE_TRACKS_ARTISTS_NAME>>%))),$div(%RELEASE_TOTAL_TRACKS%,2)),$multi_greater($length($unique($flatten(%<<RELEASE_TRACKS_ARTISTS_REAL_NAME>>%))),$div(%RELEASE_TOTAL_TRACKS%,2))),Various Artists,$joinnames($multi_replace(%<RELEASE_ARTISTS_NAME>%,'Various','Various Artists'),%<RELEASE_ARTISTS_JOIN>%))

Hai.
Does anyone see anything on here:
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Confluencias-I-Selva/release/11123050
why track 2 & 4 would cause foo_discogs to spew out:
"(FATAL) Error: Error generating tag DISCOGS_ARTISTS_ALIASES [] for file file://D:\* *\02-Kraut feat. Bachan-Lentamente.flac"

If you click through on Bachan (2) and Yeahman!, both artists give 404 pages.
I've seen this happen now and again lately - I'm not sure how it would happen, because surely when they're listed on a release they would get an artist page of some sort, even if they have no releases other than appearing on this compilation?

Could be worth posting in the Discogs forums about them?

Hi,
question about %RELEASE_SEARCH_FORMATS%,
used in
Find Release Window
configured via
Configuration->Searching Tab->Master Sub-release formatting string
....

foo_discogs would need to be changed to better support this.

Sup y'all? I just jumped in here real quick to let you know that everything was working fine until the last 20 mins or so. I've been tagging for the past few days, using it until literally just now when the Discogs site said it was down shortly for maintenance. Sure enough, it came back online shortly after, but since then, the plugin no longer works.

It's not the first time Discogs have changed something to which you (bubblegumm and other rockstars like you) have to patch, but this is the first time I've personally seen it occur while I'm actually using it so maybe I'm just one of the first to notice this time.

I could be wrong; It could be something my end and if so I'll come back and say. But literally nothing's changed except Discogs shut down for a little while and now I'm getting exception errors.

(FATAL) Error: Network exceptionSecurity error (url: https://api.discogs.com/database/search)

[ESCAPE to close]

[10:25:34] foo_discogs: Networking Error: Network authentication error (80090326) - Retrying: 1
[10:25:37] foo_discogs: Networking Error: Network authentication error (80090326) - Retrying: 2
[10:25:39] foo_discogs: Networking Error: Network authentication error (80090326) - Retrying: 3
[10:25:41] foo_discogs: Networking Error: Network authentication error (80090326) - Retrying: 4
[10:25:44] foo_discogs: Networking Error: Network authentication error (80090326) - Retrying: 5

This plugin is one of the best things on the Internet. And has been for many years.

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