music
Discogs
A crowdsourced database of music releases and physical pressings, paired with a marketplace. Its search API requires a token, so we surface it as a link to the site's own search. The standard reference for discographies and for identifying a specific pressing of a release. Flagged as degraded: a CAPTCHA may stand between you and the site.
No programmatic check, opens the archive’s own search.
Why it’s useful & how it works
Discogs is the standard reference for discographies and the most reliable way to identify a specific pressing, catalog number, or regional variant of a release. Its crowd-sourced database is built by collectors who document physical formats in fine detail, and each release entry lists label, matrix, country, and year. Because the Discogs API requires a token, Echo links you to the site's own search, where you can run a query and browse results, though a CAPTCHA may occasionally appear.
What’s inside
More than 18 million releases spanning vinyl, CD, cassette, and other formats, with entries for over 2.4 million artists and 2.1 million labels. Community members have collectively catalogued more than 830 million individual pieces of music in personal collections.
API access
https://api.discogs.com/database/search?q= (token)
An API key is required (usually free); see the endpoints above for where to get one.
What we measured
Our own probes, not the archive’s own claims. Re-run periodically; every reading below is dated.
Reachability
- Direct request
- Cloudflare challenge HTTP 403 67 ms (just a moment)
- Through a datacenter proxy
- Cloudflare challenge HTTP 403 440 ms (just a moment)
- API, direct
- Responded HTTP 200 686 ms
- API, through a proxy
- Responded HTTP 200 599 ms
Reachability measured 2026-08-22.
Access
May require solving a captcha before it responds.