DisCat is a desktop manager for your Discogs record collection. It downloads your collection, enriches it with purchase history, market values and per-track key/energy data, organises folders, syncs custom fields, and ships with a localhost web companion plus a Claude Desktop (MCP) integration.
This repository hosts the user guides for DisCat. (The application source lives in a separate repository.)
- DisCat User Guide — how to use every feature of the desktop app: downloading your collection, organising folders, custom fields, wantlist scanning, market values, stats, the web companion and more.
- MCP / Claude Desktop Guide — how to query and manage your collection from Claude Desktop using the DisCat MCP server.
- Full collection download with smart caching and safe re-downloads
- Complete purchase metadata — price, seller, condition, clickable order links
- Automatic folder organisation by genre / style
- Custom-field sync to Discogs
- Wantlist seller-coverage scanning and condition-aware fair-value readouts
- Market values (sales history with a listings fallback)
- Localhost read-only web companion — collection, wantlist, stats, market, purchases and playlists
- Claude Desktop integration via the MCP server
DisCat makes managing your music collection purr-fect! 🎵