you can't do this! this is not a feature of Music Collection

music collection has import facilities for albums on the backend, that's it! it's not "discogs"!

Understood. Can I load as many albums/songs from discogs as I want to?
Hundreds, Thousands?

Can reviews be imported from third party sources, or are they obtained through webmaster entry only?

Thanks. Great product by the way!

think about copyright issues not only concerning music but also other content taken off third party websites / data sources in general

those large companies have lawyers that SUCK

Can I load as many albums/songs from discogs as I want to?
Hundreds, Thousands?

Any limits of any kind?

hello!

there's not limit, you can load as many albums and songs as you want.. (but as you said, it will take you a lot of time...!!)

but also remember that files (I mean, real playable files) are NOT imported from Discogs!

Discogs' database itself may be freely used when accessed via the API (which Music Collection is doing, i suppose) as you can see here:

http://www.discogs.com/developers/

there you'll also find complete database dumps.

but then, don't forget to read the bottom of this page, too:

folk myth

even if you don't intend to use your website commercially, check the laws of the country you reside in and / or the server location...

while in the US there is "Fair use" which may permit usage of copyrighted works under certain circumstances, in Germany people have been sued by manufacturers just for putting the manufacturer's product photos in an ebay auction.

When I have the files inported in MC, is there a way to get info from Discogs to overwrite certain data like album info etc...

no, the import for album info is only for one time. then what you can do is re-search for tracklist direclty inside the album.

When I do this and save the album, the selected album tracks from Discogs are added to the album as extra songs...

I understand this is hard to accomplish automaticly, but a kind of compare would be nice, one which you can assign found tracks on Discogs to the already existing MC ones. And while you're there, overwrite the selected MC album info by the info from Discogs is this way also much more easy, not ?

I can write it myself, but is there a way not to be in trouble with future updates ? Cause this will go into the core, not like template adjustments...

this is not simple at all. how would the comparison work? song names? don't think so... song names cannot be identical (uppercase, lowercase, blank spaces...) also an album can have more than 1 song with the same name... also depending on the dicogs item (country releases) the order of songs can be different...!