Free · import your collection ratings
Bring your Discogs ratings somewhere they add up
Riffiter is a music rating and review site, the way Letterboxd works for film. Export your Discogs collection as a CSV, upload it here, and the stars you have been leaving on records for years turn into something you can read: an average by decade, the genres you actually return to, and the artists you score hardest. Your Discogs account stays where it is.
How to import
Export your collection from Discogs
On discogs.com, open your collection and use the Export button. Discogs emails you a CSV of every release you own, with your star rating in the Rating column.
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Upload the CSV
Settings → Connections → Discogs. We match each release to our catalog and bring your star ratings across. Re-run it whenever your collection grows; nothing duplicates.
The rating field on Discogs is a dead end
Discogs is a pressing database and a marketplace, and it's good at both. Rating isn't really part of either job. You can sort your collection by it. That's about it. So hundreds of small judgements sit there and never become anything.
Here they keep going. Half stars exist, so you can revisit the records you were never quite sure about and split the difference. Your profile is a page with a URL that someone can actually read, not a screen inside an app.
Enough people rating also produces things no collector can see from their own shelf, like the albums Riffiter listeners disagree on most.
FAQ
- Can I import my Discogs ratings?
- Yes. Discogs lets you export your collection as a CSV, and that file carries the star rating you gave each release. Upload it to Riffiter and we match the releases to our catalog and copy the ratings across.
- How do I export my Discogs collection?
- Log in to discogs.com, go to your Collection, and press Export. Discogs builds the file and emails you a download link, usually within a few minutes. That CSV is what you upload here.
- Discogs rates out of 5 and Riffiter out of 5 stars with halves. How does that convert?
- A Discogs rating is a whole number of stars, so it lands on the same whole star here: 4 on Discogs is 4 stars on Riffiter. Nothing gets rounded, because there is nothing to round. You can adjust any of them to a half star afterwards.
- What happens to releases I own but never rated?
- They stay behind. Discogs starts every release in your collection at 0 stars, which means unrated, and for most collectors that is the majority of the file. We only import rows where you actually left a rating.
- Why did some of my records not match?
- A collection is full of 7-inch singles and specific pressings that we don't carry as separate albums, so those rows have nothing to match against. Ordinary catalog gaps account for the rest. Our catalog fills in on demand, so running the import again later picks up more.
- Is Riffiter a Discogs replacement?
- No. Discogs is where you catalogue and buy physical releases, and it's very good at that. We don't sell anything and we don't track pressings. Riffiter is the layer Discogs doesn't have: what your ratings say about you, and other people to argue with about them.
- Is this affiliated with Discogs?
- No. Riffiter is an independent music rating and review site. We only make it easy to bring over data you exported yourself.
Discogs is a trademark of its owner. Riffiter is not affiliated with Discogs; we only help you import data you exported yourself.