This repository is organized as an Obsidian vault containing media descriptions in markdown format. It can be viewed using any markdown viewer (e.g. almost any browser) but if Obsidian is used then many additional features will be available including queries using the Dataview plugin for Obsidian.
The Obsidian-Discogs-Vault repository reflects the contents of my Discogs collection. The process by which this repository was created and curated as well as the tools used in its creation and curation may be useful to others with a Discogs collection. I am making it public and freely licensed so that others may examine, adapt, clone, and use in whatever manner they choose. See the description of Process for an overview of the process and tools employed in the creation of this repository.
Other Obsidian vaults I have curated and made public include:
- Obsidian Beets Vault
- Obsidian Books Vault
- Obsidian CD Vault
- Obsidian Roon Vault
- Obsidian Vinyl Vault
- Obsidian Media Vault
- Pokemon Markdown Vault
Get started browsing the Obsidian Discogs Vault.
- Download the vault
- Open the vault in Obsidian via "Open another vault -> Open folder as vault"
- Trust us. :)
- When Obsidian opens the settings, verify the "Dataview" plugin is enabled
- Done! The Obsidian Discogs Vault is now available to you in its purest and most useful form!
The Obsidian Discogs Vault has been curated with metadata allowing queries to be performed using the Obsidian Dataview plugin. Sample queries along with the code used to perform them can be viewed in the Discogs Queries document.
Additional visual representations of the Discogs Vault, also based upon Dataview queries, are provided by the Excalibrain Obsidian plugin.
The Obsidian Discogs Vault markdown contains metadata with tags allowing a variety of Obsidian Dataview queries.
Discogs users with curated Discogs collections can generate markdown format files for all items and artists in their Discogs collection using the Discogs API. See Process.md for details on how to automate this process.
Beets and Discogs provide the greatest amount of detail and information on albums, artists, and releases in your library.
To view example markdown generated by this process, see:
See the Process document for a detailed description of the tools and process used to generate this vault.
Obsidian community plugins we have found useful and can recommend include the following:
- Contextual Typography: Enables enhanced preview typography
- Dataview: Treats an Obsidian Vault as a database from which you can query
- Excalibrain: An interactive structured mind-map of an Obsidian vault
- Excalidraw: Edit and view Excalidraw in Obsidian
- Hider: Hides various elements of the UI
- Hover-editor: Turns the hover popover into a full featured editor
- Pandoc: Adds command palette options to export your notes to a variety of formats
- Quickadd: Quickly add content to a vault
- Shellcommands: Define and run shell commands
- Style Settings: Enables theme customization
- Templater: Defines a powerful templating language