Several fields that are direct entity properties on MusicBrainz are stored in generic text fields in Discogs (even if they do seem to have standardised how to present them), e.g. They also lack several concepts that MusicBrainz has ( works, recordings, events) and mosh a collection of others together into their “label” entity ( labels, series, places). Discogs does have an API and it is possible to query Discogs for help with tagging, but they don’t have any way to use, e.g., AcoustIDs to identify recordings or Disc IDs to look up releases/mediums. MusicBrainz is generally a lot more “machine friendly” than Discogs. Discogs have different guidelines than MusicBrainz, so even with the Discogs importer userscript you will often have to apply some manual clean up to the releases you’re importing (one of the reasons automatic imports are more often than not a bad idea).
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