Style Guide
From The Unofficial Discogs Wiki
| The Discogs Style Guide | ||||||
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| Blues · Brass & Military · Children's · Classical · Electronic · Folk, World & Country · Funk / Soul | ||||||
| Hip Hop · Jazz · Latin · Non-Music · Pop · Reggae · Rock · Stage & Screen | ||||||
The style guide is an informative collection of descriptions of musical styles as captured in the Genre and Style fields in Discogs release data. Use the navigation links above to browse pages describing the valid styles for each genre. Also feel free to log in and edit whatever needs corrections, clarifications, or additional info.
See also: the announcement thread about this guide.
Adding or changing styles
- Propose new styles or genres to be recognized in one of these two places:
- In the ADDING NEW GENRES sticky thread in the Discogs General forum.
- Here in the wiki at Style Guide/Unofficial styles.
We used to use Discogs Development forum threads for style proposals. This post put an end to that practice and said to use the wiki from now on. However, discussion is more visible and easier to carry out in the forums, so use the ADDING NEW GENRES thread as mentioned above. People are also still using the Adding/Updating Information forum for discussing proposals as well.
We also used to have a single place in the old Trac ticket system where style requests were collected. There is no equivalent ticket in Disbugs. Don't create one.
What do you do in the meantime? See the post where nik says "For the moment, if you can't find the style, just enter the genre."
Updating the Submission Guidelines
Propose updates to the Genres/Styles section of the Submission Guidelines in the Genres/Styles guideline review or this forum thread.
