Ep451: Data, Trends & the Future of Discogs
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Most record collectors use Discogs each day - so what does the data tell us about the state of record collecting? Founder & CEO Kevin Lewandowski and COO Lloyd Starr talk to us about the data and future of this pivotal platform.
Topic Include:
- Introductions – CEO and COO roles
- A brief history of Discogs
- Original visions and business model of Discogs
- Dealing with users that have high expectations
- Classical music posed some challenges to catalogue
- Is Discogs built for non-physical media?
- Dealing with strange data points and entries
- What is the most expensive items sold through Discogs
- Data trends of record and music buyers
- The architecture of Discogs
- Early challenges supporting with website
- Recent focus on modernizing the Discogs architecture
- Planning new Discogs features
- Dark Side of the Moon is the most catalogued item in Discogs
- New features for the Discogs wantlist
- Events that create surges in purchasing activity
- What role will AI play in Discogs?
- Managing user feedback and priorities for features
- Helping new users become contributors
- Training new users to make edits
- Will Discogs do an IPO someday?
- What will Discogs look like in 5 years?
- Interview wrapup
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by vmgvinyl.com. |
| 0:03.7 | Professional record cleaning, restoration, rejuvenation, and grading. |
| 0:07.8 | Refresh your records with vmgvinyl.com. |
| 0:11.0 | And now on with the show. |
| 0:14.0 | Welcome to the Vinyl Guide, the podcast for record collectors and music nerds. |
| 0:18.7 | Here's your host, the biggest record nerd of them all, Nate Goyer. |
| 0:22.2 | Well, hey, everyone. |
| 0:23.6 | Welcome to episode 451 of the Vinyl Guide. |
| 0:27.1 | And apologies, it's a bit late. |
| 0:29.5 | I've been traveling throughout Southern California for the last few weeks, |
| 0:32.2 | and I stupidly forgot some of the key audio files on my home computer. |
| 0:37.2 | But, hey, we do what we got to do. |
| 0:39.3 | Cobble it together. And I think we got a really good episode here. Before we get into it, |
| 0:43.0 | I really want to thank everyone who's connected while I've been here in town, having fun in |
| 0:49.0 | Southern California, all the record shops, Parker at Cream Tangerine, Alex of record safari lance of permanent records davy at one look |
| 0:56.6 | vintage of course uh stopping by shops like grady's and ventura boho and santa clorita and of course |
| 1:03.2 | vinyl solution in huntington beach and about a dozen others apologies if i haven't listed you here |
| 1:08.6 | oh everyone at the orange county record show. That was huge. |
| 1:13.2 | The Pasadena swap meet. Even my lifelong friends, Mickey, Joey, and of course, Max, who drove |
| 1:19.1 | several hours just to hang out in Burbank and eat roundtable pizza with their boy Nate. |
| 1:24.3 | Thank you so much, guys, for all your hospitality, everything you do. |
| 1:28.3 | My travel partner, Brad, from Black Pug Skateboards, we've had a blast, and it ain't over yet. |
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