Live version deployed on linux-Apache web server hosted on a Digital Ocean droplet is available here.
Thought mainly for people having registered their music collection on Discogs, this web application fulfills the following functions:

• optional: Download user's collection stored on Discogs
• User login/logout
• Create, add, edit, delete depending on user's specific rights:
  • Genre
  • Album
  • Song
• Authentification and authorization via 3rd party service (Google sign in)

1. Set up virtual machine:

• Install Virtual Box.
• Install Vagrant.
• Download or clone the virtual machine configuration files.
• Open terminal.
• Change to the \vagrant directory.
• Download or clone this repository in this directory.
• Start the virtual machine: vagrant up then vagrant ssh.

2. Set up the back-end SQL database:
   You will need a developer account and a Discogs API token.
   If you don't want to register as a developer or don't have a Discogs account, skip this step and use the initial vinyls.db file instead.

• Run python addcollection.py.

3. Set up Google OAuth:
   • Create a new application.
   • Create credentials.
   • Download the corresponding JSON file, store in your project directory and rename it client_secrets.json.
4. Start the application:

• Run python views.py.

4. Access the application:

• Go to localhost:5000 in your web browser.

You can access detailed information (in JSON format) about genres, corresponding releases and releases's songs at the following URLs:

• /genres/json
• /genre/genre_id/json
• /release/release_id/json

• Python: application's code .
• sqlalchemy python toolkit. and SQlite engine: back-end database.
• Discogs.
• OAuth .