# Preferences - Discogs

This panel provides access to options used to control the behaviour of the Discogs wizard.

The Auto add files option, will automatically look for files to match the number of tracks presented in the Discogs wizard file mapping panel. For example, you have one file selected in the file list and the release you've located via the Discogs wizard has ten tracks. When this option is checked, Yate will automatically look for a total of ten files. It first searches for files with the same album name as the selected file. If sufficient tracks cannot be located it will search again for tracks with the same album name or containing folder. When this option is not checked you must manually change the file selection and the Discogs wizard will adjust on the fly.

Use per track Artist names implies that the artists stored with individual tracks should be used as opposed to the artist information stored with an album. If you want a single value for the artist field of each track on an album with multiple artists, you can uncheck this option. You can then use the original artist as presented in the presented metadata or edit the value to be whatever you wish.

Use per track Artist URLs is the same as Use per track Artist names except it pertains to the URLs which reference artists on the web.

Many Discogs artist entries have Artist Name Variations, ANVs in Discogs terminology. While these values are not aliases in Discogs terminology they can be thought of as such. When the Prefer Artist Name Variations (ANV) option is set, the ANV names will replace the Artist name.

If the Save Import Time option is set, a UDTI named DISCOGS_IMPORT_TIME will be set whenever data is imported from Discogs.

When importing, if you do not want empty Discogs items to overwrite file items, select the Do not overwrite values with empty values option.

You can automatically prepend genres to the mood field, if they are not already present. Simply check the Merge genres into mood option

Discogs may tag a release with more than one genre. Yate can handle this situation, but other applications such as iTunes may not properly display multi value items. Checking Ignore all but first genre will make sure than only one genre is imported.

When the Show filename to title Score column in the file mapping table option is enabled, the displayed column will describe a percentage score based on a fuzzy comparison between the Discogs title and:

- the title contained in a track's metadata
- the track's filename
- the track's filename run through all available File to Tag templates. This is used to extract the title from the filename which may contain other metadata components.

Three colors are displayed with the score as follows: 0%-49% red, 50-99% yellow and 100% green. The fuzzy comparison ignores alphabetic case, accents and will discard all words in the Weight Exception set. Removing the words in the Weight Exception set improves the accuracy. eg. If the word the is in your weight exception list, matching The Best of nnn against Best of nnn will result in a 100% match.

Artist, album artists, labels and media formats may all have more than one value. If Combine multiple value items into a single value is checked, Yate will combine all of the values into a single item which can be displayed properly by other applications.

When combining multiple value items into a single value or when assigning multiple names to a single role in Musician Credits or Involved People, a join sequence is used to separate the items. The join sequence may be specified in the Discogs data or assigned a default value by Yate if one is not. If you wish to always use your own join sequence (separator), you may specify one via the Join override option. Note that spaces are significant. If you want to resume using the default join sequences, completely empty this field. Note that am equivalent option exists in the MusicBrainz preferences. If you are using both services it makes sense to use the same join override for both.

The presence of commas in person fields such as Artist, Composer, Involved People, Musician Credits, etc. can be annoying as the comma character is used in various contexts as a separator. You can elect to leave commas unchanged, to substitute the visually similar Alt Comma character (\_) or to substitute a smart space. A smart space is a space character that is only inserted if required as a separator. eg. A space will be inserted for "A,B" but not for "A, B".

The Import all artwork option controls what is automatically imported or marked for import. When running the Discogs Wizard, this option controls which artwork gets marked for import. When the option is set, all artwork will be marked for import. When the option is not set, only the first loaded artwork item will be marked for import. When accessing Discogs functionality via an action in the Batch Procecessor, the option, when set, will cause all available artwork to be loaded and imported. When not set, only a single loaded artwork item, if any, will be imported. Note that this is an application level setting. If the Artwork metadata item is not marked for import when viewing a release in the wizard, no artwork will be imported.

The Import all artwork option works in conjunction with its adjacent popup button. When not Batch Processing you can specify how many artwork items get preloaded as follows:

> Do Note Preload Artwork
>   Artwork will be identified, but not preloaded.
> Preload Single Artwork Item
>   A single artwork item, if available, will be preloaded.
> Preload All Artwork
>   All available artwork will be preloaded.

Yate attempts to retain only one copy of an image. When importing artwork from Discogs, if it is determined that an image is a duplicate it will not be imported. However, the original picture type and description will be retained. If Always use imported artwork metadata is checked, the Discogs metadata will overwrite the metadata stored with the image already already present.

You can elect to to automatically run an action after importing data from Discogs. Check the Run action after import option and choose an action to run.

When mapping files to Discogs tracks you can have Yate search for missing tracks which might be incorrectly tagged elsewhere in your library. This is done by weighing each of the tracks in your library based on the Discogs data associated with the missing track. In order to enable this functionality you must have produced a Track database. Select the Use track database option and use the Choose button to select the database you have previously produced.

For more information on searching for missing tracks read the Locating Missing Tracks in an Album topic.

Disc and track totals are not available in the search results. If you specify the Pre load results option, release information will be pre-loaded while you are examining the search results. Disc and Track columns will be displayed and will be filled as the information becomes available. This is a slow process as Discogs requests can only be made once per second. Changing this option has no effect until the next time the Discogs wizard is displayed.

You show or hide a Catalog Number column in the list of releases table via the Show Catalog Number column in the releases table option. Note that the option only takes effect the next time the Discogs Wizard is started.

A Discogs release can contain various credits. You can change the default mappings associated with these credits via the Combined Credits Editor.

Discogs functionality tends to operate better if extraneous media types are ignored. By default media types which begin with blu-ray, dvd and video are ignored. It is posible that certain audio tracks can be identified as dvd. If you wish you can always edit the list of media types to be ignored. The list is case insensitive and uses commas (,) as separators.