Re: Can't figure out how to get the artist name from a DiscID

Hi Andy,

Thanks for the reply.  I started with the cdlookup example and it did 
dump a ton of info to cout.
I had no idea how to get to the Artist name.

I read the xml sections of the online documentation but it made no 
sense to me. I trried to requery the release after the discid but it 
always came back with an error and I have no idea how to ask for an 
artist name in addition to the release info.

>3. For each Release ID, perform a release query, including any extra
>parameters you need (artists etc.)
>4. If you want information related to the specific disk rather than the
>release as a whole, you need to filter the list of media that match the
>original disk id.


I don't know how to do the above!


Also what is it you are referring to in this statement. "I'd also 
recommend a thorough reading of the WS
documentation,"  I thought I read the whole website.

Still at a loss here.  I don't know how to requery for specific information.

Regards,
David





At 09:18 AM 4/8/2015, you wrote:
>Hi David,
>
>In article <[email protected]>,
>            David Baltimore<[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have spent countless hours trying to get the Artist name from a
> > DiscID.  The CRelease has a CArtist in it but it's always NULL, yet
> > when I cout << *FullRelease in the sample code the Artist Name is there.
> >
> > The documentation is not at all helpful.  ANY help would be greatly
> > appreciated.
>
>The sample code shows you how to do this. Using the library requires a good
>understanding of what responses come back when you make calls into the web
>service. I'd recommend you always understand what queries you want to send
>to the webservice, and what responses to expect.
>
>In short.
>
>1. Do a discid query for the discid you want to look up
>2. From this, retrieve the ReleaseList
>3. For each Release ID, perform a release query, including any extra
>parameters you need (artists etc.)
>4. If you want information related to the specific disk rather than the
>release as a whole, you need to filter the list of media that match the
>original disk id.
>
>Take a look at the code in examples/cdlookup.cc and it should hopefully
>become clearer. I'd also recommend a thorough reading of the WS
>documentation, as the library is just a very thin wrapper around this.
>
>Andy
>
>
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