# Improve Discogs matches?

**URL:** https://discourse.beets.io/t/improve-discogs-matches/2056
**Category:** Help
**Created:** [March 15, 2022, 8:51pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/improve-discogs-matches/2056 "2022-03-15T20:51:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![martimpassos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b782af/32.png) [@martimpassos](https://discourse.beets.io/u/martimpassos)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2022, 8:51pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/improve-discogs-matches/2056/1 "2022-03-15T20:51:15Z")

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Hello, I’m new to Beets (but I already love it!). Because of my collection’s nature, Discogs is a far better source than MusicBrainz, but I’m finding poor matching results even when files have clean, accurate artist and album names:

 ![Screen Shot 2022-03-15 at 17.07.59](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/beets/original/1X/3c53f730a4efa556424098fbaae071283a9b68bd.png)

 ![Screen Shot 2022-03-15 at 17.40.57](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/beets/original/1X/44db50c1f8a696652d9d296b7d83c402fd5f2b31.png)  
I constantly end up manually searching Discogs for releases ID’s. Is there a way to improve these results, maybe messing with `max_rec` in the configuration? Should I set `artist` and `album` to `strong` and bring down `missing tracks`, `id`, etc?

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### Author: ![martimpassos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b782af/32.png) [@martimpassos](https://discourse.beets.io/u/martimpassos)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2022, 9:32pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/improve-discogs-matches/2056/2 "2022-03-15T21:32:25Z")

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Possibly related to [this PR](https://github.com/beetbox/beets/pull/4227)

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### Author: ![jojo](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/jojo/32/709_2.png) [@jojo](https://discourse.beets.io/u/jojo)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2022, 5:31pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/improve-discogs-matches/2056/3 "2022-03-17T17:31:55Z")

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Hi Martin, please provide the same beets import run using -v and what beets version u are using exactly. Thanks

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### Author: ![jojo](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/jojo/32/709_2.png) [@jojo](https://discourse.beets.io/u/jojo)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2022, 9:47am UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/improve-discogs-matches/2056/4 "2022-03-18T09:47:33Z")

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Hi @martimpassos again, also another tip: To see the differences in matching of each track, set match.detail: yes in config. Helps to distinguish if really so much is different.

Yes your numbers are very low but I dont think that you should change the default values yet. There must be a different cause.

Send a beet import -v …. with the detail option set to yes and then let’s have a look. Posting it in here as code box would be best.

HTH