Adding albums to my collection

[dick-dock]

Hi!

Is there an easy way to do this? E.g. can I upload a csv file? Can't imagine doing it manually

[albummaster]

CSV uploads are not something that's available right now, but I'll add to list for a future update (not sure how matching would work between your local list and the database here, so that's something for BEA to think about).

[ydawg]

I'd like to plus one this. In particular, I'd like to be able to upload a csv of my collection from discogs and see have those albums added to my BAE collection.

Looking at the export from my collection on discogs and the export from my collection in BEA, it looks like you could map the Title and Artist fields from each.
From the BEA side, I assume you would want to keep your own AlbumID and Year. Discogs does have a "Released" field, but that is for the year of the specific version which, in many cases, will be a re-release or re-pressing.

I imagine there would be a (small) number of cases where you might have multiple matches for "Title" and "Artist" combinations.
E.g. a quick search on Discogs finds 9 bands named "The Killers". It's conceivable that two or more of them might put out a self-titled album that then makes it onto some Best Album List. In these cases, and in other cases where there isn't a clear one to one matching, you could not add these to the user's collection and list them out for the user to manually check for themselves.

The same would be true where you and the other source (e.g. Discogs) have a different title or name. For example, where Discogs has multiple artists with the same name they differentiate them with numbers -> James Taylor (2)

And, of course, within anyone's collection there may be albums that aren't in your database at all. This would also be interesting information, but I would not expect these albums to be added to my BEA collection. It would be nice for them to be listed out though.

Sample output might be.

[albummaster]