Template talk:Discogs release

Usage

this does not work....(E-Kartoffel (talk) 16:03, 18 March 2010 (UTC))

Unfortunately, the usage isn't documented. You have to add the code number from the discogs url to an id parameter. So for the first Magical Mystery Tour release at http://www.discogs.com/Beatles-Magical-Mystery-Tour/release/1850514, you would use {{Discogs release|id=1850514|type=album}}. However, I would recommend using the newer "master version" at {{Discogs master}}, which is properly documented. --JD554 (talk) 14:11, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

but a "master" is a different thing; a proper, simple template to link to specific releases is dearly needed.(E-Kartoffel (talk) 17:09, 3 May 2010 (UTC))

We're not talking about the recording industry's "master" but the master entry at discogs.com. --JD554 (talk) 17:59, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

I know, I am writing about the same thing, i was just confused about the third field, which is useless (or not?), so the template to link to specific releases, not combined in masters (same example as as above) is {{Discogs release|id=1850514|name=Magical Mystery Tour (Capitol Records, MAL-2835)}} (E-Kartoffel (talk) 10:50, 8 May 2010 (UTC))

There is a lot of and longtime discussion about what actually is an album or a single in discogs, so I'd recommend to not include this information in the wikipedia-discogs templates (E-Kartoffel (talk) 10:57, 8 May 2010 (UTC)).

Documentation added to template.

Hope this helps other users to use this better — get adding! ;-) Jimthing (talk) 05:12, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

"release" option now works (and "id" too)

I've added the "release" parameter to the template (as third option; {{{1|{{{id|{{{release|}}}}}}}}}) and it now functions properly. I've also mantained the "id" parameter for retro-compatibility and added it to the template documentation. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 15:31, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Pure URL option for citations

It would be useful for this family of templates to have an option pure_url=yes, just like Template:AllMusic has. That would allow the URL generated by this template to be used within citations. I would use that feature, if it existed. I don't know how to add it to the template code myself – can someone take this on? Lwarrenwiki (talk) 16:17, 4 May 2018 (UTC)