Quick Start Guide
How to enter information into Discogs
Note: This is a simplified walk through. For more in-depth details about how to submit, and how to deal with more sophisticated entries, please make sure you check out the full guidelines.
1 - Getting Started.
Place the item you want to submit in front of you, so it is easy to read and enter the information (Please note that you must have the exact release in your possession when you submit it!). The first thing to do is to use the search engine to check that your item isn't already in the database, otherwise you'll waste your time trying to enter it all again! If it isn't here yet, you can enter the information. Depending on the release, it could take from 10 minutes to many hours to do this. It is recommended that your first submission is a reasonably simple release, so you can learn the process before moving on to complicated releases with many tracks and artists. Let's say it is going to take you 30 minutes to enter a simple release. For this guide, we are using Depeche Mode - Love In Itself•2 And Live Tracks as an example. To get started, go to to the add release form.
2 - Main Artist
Start with the Artist. On this example release, the main artist is straightforward,
we enter "Depeche Mode" into the artist field:
We don't need to do anything else here. The small plus icon 
is for adding an ANV, which will be explained later. The large plus sign
is for adding another artist for releases with more than one artist, we
don't need that in this example. note: we use 'Various', 'Unknown Artist',
and 'No Artist' as standard special artists, more explanation of this
and other aspects is at Guidelines - Release - Artist.
3 - Title
Work down the form, filling in each field as needed. The next field is the title. We try to enter the title as close to what is