Beat Physics

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You seem quite bitter, where did you get this strange idea that records aren't music to me?

I'm not a flipper as mentioned a page back. Wait a sec, Dave are you saying it has a point now...?

I get you friend, its pointless. Back to the drawing board...

Oh, I see...:S

Thats cool, the OP explains my reasons for making the app...

abovetheearth - I've PM'd you a link to the app. also a demo sign in with a couple of records added.

LOL 'App-ropriate' - love it.

Discogs is king and will likely continue to be - they have the best public data on the planet when it comes to records - they know it and that's why they opened up their API to developers so we can keep getting more useful stuff out of it.

That's a quite a deep question there - what's the value of anything and why? 1. For me, records are worth however much I believe them to be - its completely subjective. But then if a record is rare / famous and in demand, people will expect to pay more for it - its just supply demand. 2. Records aren't fungible like oil or commodities, they are simply collectables / antiques and so pricing is subjective. Which is why discogs is so successful - a half decent torch is better than no torch.

Thanks - this is all useful for me to understand how people tend to use discogs. You've def hit on a couple of points I'm trying to address with this app. At the bare minimum, this is what the focus of the app is. Do PM me to give it a go - I should mention no personal details are required to sign up.

Hey above theearth, its based on discog's own data, it does a few extra calculations on that data to determine things like 'demand' and 'accuracy'. Discogs API contains a lot more detailed data than is publicly accessible through their website front end.

If you have a lot of records, it saves having to look them up. If I am buying records, its a way of spotting a good deal.

Neither do I, I'm a collector and am curious about the prices which is why I built the app. Nevermind though, I can see it might not be aimed at you.

$0.03 is not bad for 24hrs. But that's just the drift from the exchange rates anyway, nothing to write home about. jacobraccula & tellallyourfriends let's see you vinyl veterans pick some records and do better, PM me for a link. chrs

Really? I don't believe you...

One of the first users who sign up yesterday, his record has gone up $0.03 cents today

You can add Discogs releases by pasting in their release URL at the moment. This is so I can test to see if we come across any discogs API rate limits / bugs. I'm advising new users to pick about 25 records for now. If it all works OK with the test folks, next step will be coding up the discogs sync you're describing. PM and I'll send you a link to try it out, thanks

Hi everyone, first post so here goes...I use discogs a lot to check vinyl prices like a lot of people do, but I wanted a way to keep track of when the prices go up or down. So I made a web app that keeps track and adds up the value of your records each day. Its pretty basic, but I'm looking for about ten people to try it out and see if they find it useful. If you message me I can send you an invite to sign up. Cheers, Beat Physics