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Discogs MCP Server

Discogs MCP Server is an MCP server that adds tools to AI assistants such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor. MCP Server for the Discogs API, enabling music catalog operations, search functionality, and more. It has 130 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license and runs locally with npx -y discogs-mcp-server.

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Install Discogs MCP Server

Generated from the server's published package. Replace your-value with your own values.

Claude Desktop

claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "discogs-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "discogs-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DISCOGS_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Settings > Developer > Edit Config. macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/, Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\. Restart Claude Desktop afterwards.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --env DISCOGS_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN=your-value --transport stdio discogs-mcp-server -- npx -y discogs-mcp-server

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "discogs-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "discogs-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DISCOGS_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN": "your-value"
      }
    }
  }
}

Project file; use ~/.cursor/mcp.json to enable it in every project.

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "inputs": [
    {
      "type": "promptString",
      "id": "discogs_personal_access_token",
      "description": "DISCOGS_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN",
      "password": true
    }
  ],
  "servers": {
    "discogs-mcp-server": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "discogs-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "DISCOGS_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN": "${input:discogs_personal_access_token}"
      }
    }
  }
}

Config formats checked against the official docs on Oct 7, 2026: modelcontextprotocol.io (opens in a new tab), code.claude.com (opens in a new tab), cursor.com (opens in a new tab), code.visualstudio.com (opens in a new tab).

Environment variables

Variables the server reads at startup.

NameRequiredDescription
DISCOGS_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKENsecretNoShown in the README's example configuration.

About Discogs MCP Server

MCP Server for the Discogs API, enabling music catalog operations, search functionality, and more. If you just want to get started immediately using this MCP Server with the Claude desktop app and don't care about development or running the server yourself, then make sure you have Node.js installed and your Discogs personal access token ready and skip straight to the Claude configuration section. Use the NPX method from that section.

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How do I install the Discogs MCP Server MCP server?

Add the command npx -y discogs-mcp-server to your MCP client: put it in claude_desktop_config.json for Claude Desktop, run claude mcp add for Claude Code, or add it to .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor) or .vscode/mcp.json (VS Code). The snippets on this page are ready to paste.

Is Discogs MCP Server free?

The server is open source under the MIT license, so running it is free. It needs credentials (DISCOGS_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN) for the service it connects to, which may require a paid account.

Is Discogs MCP Server actively maintained?

The most recent commit was on Oct 23, 2026. The latest release is v0.5.7, published May 26, 2026. appsgit only lists MCP servers with a commit in the last six months.