Editing Discogs (section)

{{Short description|Website and database devoted to audio recordings}}
{{Use American English|date=January 2022}}
{{distinguish|Discord}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2022}}
{{Infobox website
| name = Discogs
| logo = Discogs logo black.svg
| screenshot = Discogs website screenshot, February 12, 2025.png
| caption = Screenshot of Discogs' home page on February 12 2025.
| url = {{official URL}}
| commercial = Partially
| type = [[Music]]
| language = English, German, Spanish, Portuguese (BR), French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian
| registration = Optional
| services = [[Database]], [[online shopping]]
| industry = [[Internet]]
| num_users = 
| owner = Zink Media, LLC<ref>{{cite web|url=https://support.discogs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360009334333|title=Terms of Service|publisher=Discogs|quote=The domains discogs.com (including subdomains) and nearmint.io, related applications, and any of Our associated services, including Application Program Interfaces ("APIs"), (collectively, the "Service"), owned and operated by Zink Media, LLC (d/b/a Discogs) [...]|accessdate=2023-12-13}}</ref>
| author = Kevin Lewandowski
| launch_date = {{start date and age|2000|11}}
| current_status = Online
| country = [[Beaverton, Oregon|Beaverton]], [[Oregon]], U.S.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://support.discogs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360009334513 |title=Privacy Policy|publisher=Discogs|language=en|quote=[...] Zink Media, LLC (d/b/a Discogs), 4145 SW Watson Avenue, Suite 350, Beaverton, Oregon, USA 97005.|accessdate=2023-12-13}}</ref><ref name="Oregonian">{{Cite web |last=Greenwald|first=David|date=2015-12-29 |title=Inside Discogs, Beaverton's $100 million record store |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/music/2015/12/inside_discogs_beaverton_100_million.html |access-date=2023-06-30 |website=The Oregonian |language=en |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230630152643/https://www.oregonlive.com/music/2015/12/inside_discogs_beaverton_100_million.html |archive-date=2023-06-30 }}</ref>
| revenue = Advertising, marketplace fees
}}

'''Discogs''' ({{IPAc-en|d|ɪ|ˈ|s|k|ɒ|ɡ|z}} {{respell|disk|OGZ}}; short for "[[discography|discographies]]") is a [[database]] of information about [[Sound|audio]] [[Sound recording and reproduction|recording]]s, including [[commerce|commercial]] releases, promotional releases, and [[Bootleg recording|bootleg]] or off-label releases. Database contents are user-generated, and described in ''[[The New York Times]]'' as "[[Wikipedia]]-like".<ref name=":0" /> While the site was originally created with the goal of becoming the largest online database of [[electronic music]],<ref name="auto">{{cite web|last1=Saunders|first1=Luke|url=https://happymag.tv/discogs-what-is-it-where-it-came-from-and-how-to-use-it/ |date=Sep 8, 2021 |title=Discogs: what is it, where it came from, and how to use it|website=Happy Mag |language=en-US|access-date=2019-10-08}}</ref> it now includes releases in all [[Music genre|genres]] and on all [[Timeline of audio formats|formats]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Sisario |first=Ben |date=2015-12-29 |title=Discogs Turns Record Collectors' Obsessions Into Big Business |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/30/business/media/discogs-turns-record-collectors-obsessions-into-big-business.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=2023-06-29 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> By 2015, it had a new goal: that of "cataloging every single piece of physical music ever created."<ref>{{cite web|website = Q the Music|url=http://www.qthemusic.com/14459/guest-column-how-discogs-organised-the-worlds-record-collection/ |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170420140632/http://www.qthemusic.com/14459/guest-column-how-discogs-organised-the-worlds-record-collection/|archive-date=April 20, 2017|title= Guest Column - How Discogs Organised the World's Record Collection|date=March 4, 2016|access-date=February 27, 2025|last=Lewandowski|first=Kevin}}</ref> As of 2025, its database contains over 18 million user-submitted album listings.<ref>{{cite web|title=Find Music on Discogs|url=https://www.discogs.com/search|website=Discogs|access-date=February 27, 2025}}</ref>