# Beginner questions on Discogs integration & tag manipulation

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/beginner-questions-on-discogs-integration-tag-manipulation/1931>\
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**Created:** [November 9, 2021, 4:11pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/beginner-questions-on-discogs-integration-tag-manipulation/1931 "2021-11-09T16:11:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 9, 2021, 4:11pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/beginner-questions-on-discogs-integration-tag-manipulation/1931/1 "2021-11-09T16:11:58Z")

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I just found Beets. It seems really cool I have installed it and tried out the basics by following the documentation. However some things are not really clear to me and I have been unable to figure some things out so far. But since Beets is very flexible I hope it is possible to set it up correctly for my needs. Sorry if I missed it in the documentation, it’s just a lot to read and comprehend and I just didn’t find the answer to these questions…

1. Exactly which tags does Beets actually import? There must be a list of all the tags it tries to fetch and import…?

I would like to import these specific tags from Discogs:

ALBUM  
ALBUMARTIST  
ARTIST  
CATALOGID  
COUNTRY  
DISCNUMBER  
DISCOGS\_RELEASE\_ID  
GENRE  
MEDIATYPE  
PUBLISHER  
STYLE  
TITLE  
TRACK  
WWW  
YEAR

…plus ideally also an image download of the album cover from Discogs.

1. As mentioned I want Discogs tags. I prefer Discogs over MusicBrainz, by experience it suits my music much, much better. There is the plugin for Discogs but can I disable MusicBrainz completely and use Discogs as my only source?

2. For my DJ software I need to copy some tags to other tags (that I fetch from Discogs and should be overwritten if already filled). These are the ones I want/need:

copy CATALOGID to COMMENT  
copy CATALOGID to WORK  
copy PUBLISHER to GROUPING  
copy PUBLISHER to LABEL  
copy YEAR to RELEASED  
copy YEAR to DATE\_RECORDED  
copy STYLE to GENRE  
copy KEY to INITIALKEY

Can Beets do this? How?

I believe this is not a core feature but I found some plugin at [GitHub - mattbarnicle/beetsplug: Various plugins for beets media organizer](https://github.com/mattbarnicle/beetsplug) (see “tagcopy”), would this be the best and most stable solution to achieve this?

1. Can Beets automatically set the tags for TRACK and DISCNUMBER to the format (X)X/(X)X? (I.e. a track which is #21 of #30 on disc #2 of #3 should get the tag TRACK = 21/30 and DISCNUMBER = 2/3.)

2. Does Beets, if Discogs has marked a release as a compilation, set the tag COMPILATION to 1 (I believe the id3v2.4 tag for compilation is 1 for yes or 0 for no) and can it based on this tag copy the compilation-marked files to a special folder for this (i.e. /Compilations instead of /AlbumArtist)?

Thank you!