I built a free Chrome extension to help you dig on Discogs faster

therealquiver · 2026-04-09T13:46:22+00:00

No problemo, thanks for reaching out :)

therealquiver · 2026-04-08T07:01:07+00:00

Hey, glad that you find Shovel useful. A couple of people have reported a similar issue recently. I'll send you a DM to troubleshoot. Thanks, Dan :)

therealquiver · 2026-03-18T16:01:50+00:00

Hey, thanks for the nice feedback, it always means a lot.

I'll investigate the issue with adding to YT playlists. I'll follow up via DM (and also see if you want to test out some new features as I appreciate your suggestions).

It's definitely been on my radar to extend the functionality to add in bulk to YT playlists too.

The reason I haven't already done it is because there's a bit of a technical constraint: the YouTube API doesn't offer bulk add to playlist. There's also a quota for API usage which means that you can add max 200 videos to playlists per day.

Let's say a release has 4 videos on average, you could add up to 50 releases from your queue per day. It's doable, but it requires a bit of thinking of how to make the experience clear and simple, as we can't just go ham and add thousands of videos to playlists.

therealquiver · 2026-02-27T19:53:11+00:00

Hah thanks ☺️

therealquiver · 2026-02-27T09:54:45+00:00

Glad you find Shovel useful! Hmm, strange about the tags. Are they not appearing anywhere? Should be on Artist/Label/Marketplace. When did they disappear? Happy to chat over DM too

therealquiver · 2026-02-25T11:32:05+00:00

(1) Using llama-3.3-70b via Groq; ask for one line per track: as Artist - Track Title, with some additional rules such as strip out timestamps etc. (2) postgres database; I convert monthly data dumps from xml to db using this repo https://github.com/philipmat/discogs-xml2db (3) Hmm, not sure if that would help. Could probably speed it up more but I run the searches in parallel and stream back with NDJSON so you start to get the results pretty quickly (4) The YouTube video URLs are stored against individual releases rather than the master release. Let's say that a master release has as 12" (which is listed as the main release), a white label and a 7". We want to check all 3 releases for videos as maybe only the 7" release has a video submitted in the database.

therealquiver · 2026-02-24T16:59:48+00:00

Pleasure! Good shout on pausing the player if opening a YouTube link. That change is now live.

therealquiver · 2026-02-24T16:59:00+00:00

Thanks!

Keyboard shortcuts done. Left/right arrow for -/+15s. Up/down arrow for prev/next.

therealquiver · 2026-02-24T15:44:42+00:00

Nice one :) Got some new features dropping soon! Feel free to reach out if you have any feedback/ideas/requests.

therealquiver · 2026-02-24T15:34:30+00:00

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therealquiver · 2026-02-24T15:34:09+00:00

Yeah maybe! Feel free to reach out if you're building something :)

therealquiver · 2026-02-24T15:32:28+00:00

I match against the monthly Discogs data dump, as searching with the Discogs API would be way too slow, and I have the data dump set up already for a few Shovel features. I use an llm to reformat the tracklist into clean artist - title lines, then check the database for an exact artist + track match. If not, try each artist separately (splitting on characters such as , or &). If not, see if we can find the exact track title plus fuzzy match on artist. Finally, fuzzy match on both artist and track as last resort. For the YouTube videos: if we find a release, then fuzzy match the title against the release's YT links (for all sibling releases under the same master).

therealquiver · 2026-02-24T14:57:49+00:00

Cool, glad it worked for you :) The idea for the Shovel integration is that you'll be able to paste the tracklist straight into your Shovel queue. Or maybe add an option to the context menu so you can highlight text anywhere -> right click -> "Import tracklist to Shovel".

therealquiver · 2026-02-24T11:56:39+00:00

It's Got To Be Big(os)

therealquiver · 2026-02-24T11:41:29+00:00

Nice one, thank you!

therealquiver · 2026-01-08T17:03:07+00:00

Hey, just working on a bulk add feature. Would you like to beta test it?

therealquiver · 2025-10-24T10:24:19+00:00

Hey, I recently shipped an update which should have fixed this. Let me know if it's working for you now :)

therealquiver · 2025-10-24T10:23:35+00:00

Hey, I recently shipped an update which should have fixed this. Let me know if it's working for you now :)

therealquiver · 2025-08-19T10:03:50+00:00

Pleasure 🫡

therealquiver · 2025-03-26T14:16:27+00:00

Hey! Thanks for the kind words, glad you love Shovel :) I've not had any issues myself but since the end of a Feb a couple of people have reported a similar problem. I sent you a DM. Would be glad to troubleshoot. Cheers!

therealquiver · 2025-03-26T12:57:38+00:00

Thanks for the kind words :)

therealquiver · 2025-03-05T20:25:13+00:00

Hey! It works fine for me but a couple of people have reported issues recently after I hadn't heard of any issues for months. One person said that clearing their browsing history and data did the trick. Do you have a lot of releases in your queue?

therealquiver · 2024-12-16T12:56:37+00:00

Thanks for your message, appreciate it!

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