In a shop with the record in your hand? The barcode on the back of the sleeve finds that exact pressing — not just the album.
Paste any Discogs release URL, or just the release ID. Example:
249504
or import a public Discogs wantlist
New to records? Read this first
The same album gets pressed many times. Rumours from 1977, 2011 and 2021 are not the same record: different engineers cut them, different factories pressed them, and they sound different. Each version is called a pressing.
The price doesn’t tell you which one is good. A copy can be expensive because it’s rare, not because it sounds better. Those are two separate questions, and shops rarely separate them for you.
So this tool answers both. Who made the copy you’re looking at, what the people who own it actually wrote about it, and whether you’d be paying for rarity instead of sound.
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Side A · Who made it
Side B · How easy to find