Re: [mb-users] Retrieving contributors to a recording to create artist playlists

On Tuesday 23 April 2013, David Hilton wrote:
> Use picard to tag your music.

I'm confused, how would that help with what I'm trying to do? Picard by 
itself does not embed the information I'm looking for as far as I can 
tell. I'm currently using beets, so I do have the MBIDs of recordings. I 
don't yet understand how to get from those id to the data I'm interested 
in. And if there is already enough of that data to make my approach 
workable to begin with.

Michael

> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Michael Schuerig <
> 
> [email protected]> wrote:
> > I've started looking at MusicBrainz a couple of days ago with a
> > specific aim. I'd like to create playlists for artists containing
> > all recordings (in my collection) they play on.
> > 
> > I'm mostly interested in rock and jazz, but I think it would be at
> > least as interesting do for classical music.
> > 
> > An example. Let's say I want to create a playlist with recordings
> > by Steve Morse. Luckily, I remember that at one time or another,
> > he published albums under his own name and he was part of the
> > Dixie Dregs, Kansas, Deep Purple, and Flying Colors. I'd have to
> > look at the CDs to find the details.
> > 
> > I'd rather query MusicBrainz. As far as I can tell, the MB data
> > model can represent the information I'm looking for. However, I
> > have no idea if the actual data is nearly detailed enough to make
> > my idea workable. Also, I've made a few attempts at queries such
> > as this one
> > 
> > http://www.musicbrainz.org/ws/2/recording/e9863849-4bb5-4709-bcf6-
> > f79e08f09ed5?inc=artist-credits+recording-rels
> > 
> > and I'm not quite sure how to get the information I want even if it
> > is indeed there.
> > 
> > Regarding the general approach, I'm considering to retrieve
> > contributor data for each recording in a collection once and then
> > cache it locally.
> > 
> > Any thoughts, recommendations?
> > 
> > Michael

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