Kyle_ftl

slide into my dm's pls

Shoot me messages guys! I’d love to work some deals out if possible!

12 hours ago, Er0ck619 said:

I can’t click on the google doc list. Says I don’t have permission 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kZs1QCDCexnlzs_OYjBEslda9SSamRvv7FHPLZMFOzY/edit?usp=sharing

Try it now, I am still figuring out how to work this stuff.  For the record, it's the same list as the Discogs list, just filtered into 7", 10", 12", and Boxsets.

12 minutes ago, Er0ck619 said:

I can’t click on the google doc list. Says I don’t have permission 

Ugh this is exactly my fear! Let me try to figure out how to fix this... 

uploaded my list. hit me up!

Just now, hyperg1ant said:

 

I think im the only guy with bad luck hahaha

Or maybe you're the guy with the best luck because they cancelled early on you, so if you still wanted it you could buy it again.  We're gonna get cancelled hours later and it'll be sold out and we'll be extra annoyed!

1 minute ago, Bladewillisisdead said:

I think the confusion is some German site stated it was the original lineup. Which if not just a mistake, I assume could be a translation error due to confusion between "original" and "classic"

I also think it's possible that there are a ton of casual listeners that really do believe this is the original lineup.  Maybe the website just assumed that as well.  Who knows.

11 minutes ago, andrewlucas said:

So this is the original singer? Not Spencer?

Spencer does the majority of the vocals on the song.  He has been the vocalist since They're Only Chasing Safety.  Aaron was in the band from the beginning, but left prior to Disambiguation.  He did the clean vocals on their releases, along with drumming.  He rejoined when the band decided to come back... and on this song his voice is the secondary vocals you hear in the chorus, as well as during the bridge.  Not sure how much you do or do not know about the band, so I just wanted to be clear!

I have spent $200 on this damn band today.  I better not get a cancellation of my deluxe edition!!! 

2 hours ago, john said:

you're*

 

What charity are you donating the proceeds to?

Is there some unspoken rule that you have to donate proceeds from an album you possibly paid a lot of money for? 

Also, just noticed the name... what haha

funny how i have my eye on literally 3 of these records, but i already own all 3 of them.  these variants are just awesome.

54 minutes ago, 1876records said:

only good thing No Sleep has put out is Rocky Votolato's latest record

I'll take my Balance & Composure records as well.  Regardless, it sucks that No Sleep has been so horribly managed but still somehow exists in some capacity today.

Just now, stl_ben said:

When she clicks on the link, just have her scroll to the bottom and click the "Desktop" version of the page.  From there it will open up where she can sort it by whatever category she wants....and then even switch back to mobile version if she wants.

No joke, I have done that, and actually, I'm kind of an idiot now looking back on that.  I did this for myself to figure it out --- I did it on desktop and everything, and I kept looking for an option to change sorting options, and the idiot that I am completely blanked on the "artist - title (label, catalog#), added" options at the top.  COMPLETELY skipped over them because I expected there to be a sidebar somewhere for it.  What a silly mistake.  

2 hours ago, stl_ben said:

I dont believe that is correct.  I just clicked your link and it shows Zoo Entertainment at the top.

That being said....if you are sharing the link why exactly does it have to be alphabetically?  Why not just let the person looking at it sort it however they prefer?

I'm just trying to figure out how to properly link my girlfriend to my profile, or anyone for that matter, without her having to sift through tons of unorganized pages to figure out whether or not I have a specific record.  The holidays are coming up, and she has asked me to provide her with my list.  By sending her my default list - www.discogs.com/user/Kyle_ftl/collection , she cannot sort it on her iPhone safari app.  The problem of, "why not just let the person sort it however they prefer" is inapplicable because she literally cannot change the sorting options using my link for her, so I want to give her a proper link.

1 minute ago, stl_ben said:

Sellers are not allowed to adjust shipping as a counter pricing tool.  If someone does that you can easily report them and you will not be penalized.

Thank you for letting me know.  This has 100%, legitimately happened to me.  I would not make it up at all!  Like I said, I've gotten out of the orders without penalization, but I appreciate that for future reference.  Both of you guys have been helpful in that regard.

Back to my other question now, is there a way for me to format my page layout so that I can send a link to people without them seeing the newest items first and only 25 items per page?

Just now, swb said:

Sellers are required to have clear shipping prices in their Shipping Information section, so you can know the cost BEFORE you place an order or make an offer. If they don't provide prices or it's vague like "I charge USPS rates", they're in the wrong and, if you're so inclined, you can share their account with Discogs support and they'll be asked to update their terms.

The sellers have had clear shipping prices in their Shipping Info section, but they'll use the argument that Discogs has no counter offer feature, so they are forced to accept and then mark up the shipping.  The reason this annoys me is because I made an offer because I want it at the price + shipping that I offered, and when they come back with a counter offer, I'm not interested in that at all!  In the end, my sales have ended up being cancelled without hurting me, but one of them got kind of ugly.  I just wish there was a way for the buyer to back out after the "agreement" without being penalized, regardless of the reason.  If I have yet to pay, I should be able to back out without a problem.

this could be a very ridiculous question, but is there a way for me to set my settings so that when I link someone to my list on discogs, they can see it in alphabetical order?  The reason I ask this is because every time I link someone to it, they end up seeing the newest added records first, and I can change it on my computer, but then linking anyone still sees 25/page with newest added first.

Hopefully that makes sense.  I'm doing my best to get into this website, there's just so much little ridiculous things about it.  The fact that a seller can just place a random shipping price annoys the shit out of me because I utilize the "Make Offer" button, and they'll accept my offer, only to pump up the shipping price to a ridiculous amount just to get the end price close to where they originally priced the album, which LITERALLY defeats the purpose of sending an offer to them for me.  Because he "accepted" my offer, I am not forced to either purchase the item, or risk losing reputation, or whatever the hell it is.  I swear I'm trying, lol.

another mansions record to add to my collection thx for still existing guys

this is probably the first time i have seen someone list the needles the space on here.  if i didn't buy it a few months ago from a local record shop, i would have been ALL over it.

There were people I knew who skipped on the record because it was $40 originally, and I still think that's too funny given how hard it is to come by now.

it was in my cart haha.  oh well.

Wow, nice find.  Thank you.  Now I don't have to kick myself for not buying the box set because these are pretty much the only two albums I really wanted that badly out of it.  Awesome.

Love the list. Interested in a few, may message you about some!

On 9/7/2017 at 2:06 PM, vinyl addict said:

I can only imagine  the shit storm of edits that will need to be do e with all the people coming over from DF.

The Discogs site will be a sloppy mess for the next 6 weeks or so.

After adding one test press I basically said "fuck it" whenever a variant I have didn't pop up on the site.  I don't want to be responsible for any of the fuck ups, haha.  I finished transporting my collection today, but I ended up spending a solid 6-8 hours of my life doing it all.  I have separate folders for 7"/10"/12"/box sets, just like I did on Deadformat.  I still wish I could see the variants better than just the first like 3 letters, but I'm glad it's all taken care of finally.  In the process, I purchased 4 new records from the website just to fill out my collections for certain artists I only needed like one more release from or something.

19 hours ago, bridley said:

I signed up for both DF and Discogs at the same time when I started cataloguing and caring about my record collection after over a decade apart. I immediately found DF to be an entirely unacceptable website and to this day my head spins when people take such strong pro-DF stances. DF was an objectively poor quality databasing website and I have yet to hear a cogent negative complaint against Discogs but I am listening.

 

If you're not the only person looking for such extensive cataloguing capabilities, then it sounds like you've noticed a new opportunity. If you can code and database, I'd recommend you give it a go.  Since Discogs is for music - I don't think anyone is suggesting it as the solution for your music collection, plus your anime, Viva La Bam DVDs, Bartman comics, and fidget spinner collection. But seriously, if no one is making what you want (and it sounds like you looked), you should think about making it.

 

This is fascinating to me. It sounds like you don't know how to use the filters built into Discogs despite it is so intuitive and easy. You can filter by different options which should cover nearly anyone's needs, plus choose how many items to show per page (up to 250), and change the page layout between three different views - large covers, text with covers, and text only.  Using the filters can get you alphabetical and text only in a matter of seconds.  To your complaint about difficulty in putting a collection together in discogs, it is a databasing website and (un)fortunately data quality is important so we're going to have to deal with the extra few seconds in choosing the actual pressing we have and contributing to the database. Seriously, spend a few minutes on the site clicking on things. If you still cringe about it, then learn how to use excel.

 

I think there's a difference between "not knowing how" and "never bothering to try" in utilizing filters. I spent a few hours adding records to my "collection" on Discogs a couple of nights ago in attempt to familiarize myself with it more. Things I still hate about it- when searching for a record variant, any major 12" record has about 5 million options to choose from, sometimes with 15 incredibly similar variants, and I have to click on 5 different links to find the one I'm specifically looking for... on deadformat I could have just typed in "artist - record - color" and submitted it into my trade list. Holy. Crap. This was SO much more difficult than it had to be.  I think I would prefer if the search results showed a lengthier list than just the first 3 letters of whatever the variant could be. Second, why the hell cant I see how many copies were pressed of these records? I really liked that aspect on deadformat. Third, I loved how I was able to see my entire tradelist on one long page on my deadformat. On Discogs, being able to only list 250 on one page is definitely a bummer for me. 

Obviously, I need to make a google doc, but it's just frustrating.

The one major thing I love about Discogs conparatively to Deadformat is that I can see the values of my albums. I had no idea that feature existed, it makes my life easier, and shows me clarification that I have spent way too much of my income on music. Overall, diving deeper into Discogs made me enjoy it more than beforehand, but I still stand by simplicity in my list, which is what I felt deadformat offered me.

19 minutes ago, MCDELTAT said:

What does everyone mean by this? Like just finding a random release? You can search your collection, sort it by size, year you put it in your collection, basically everything. I even asked the software guys a while back if they could let you sort by playback speed and they said it's on their list actually.

When someone posts a link to their Discogs list on this website, I cringe because it's rarely in alphabetical order when I'm trying to browse through and find something I might be interested in, and it is separated into multiple pages by default, with each release having images next to it. It's great if I want to search Discogs to find releases, because they show the most accurate releases, variants, etc. but it's awful in trying to put together a collection list. The beauty of deadformat, for me, was just how simple it was to be able to send to someone like my mother, who could just click the link and easily view a list of my records. I don't feel that Discogs is nearly as simplistic, I just don't really like it for that reason. I don't need to see the record label, the release year... I just want simply artist/album/variant, which is what deadformat could offer me. It was also super easy to add releases to my list. I just had to click "add new" and type in specifically what I wanted to type in...

I also may be wrong about this one, but does it always show exactly what variant someone has in their collection on Discogs, or is it just simply the release name? I think that may have been an annoyance for me as well.