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

On Tuesday 23 April 2013, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Michael Schuerig
> <[email protected]
> 
> > wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Picard (and I expect beets too) can embed the relationship metadata.
> There might not be enough of it in rock releases for what you want,
> though - classical should be better.

I didn't realize that about Picard. Thanks for pointing it out. I've 
enabled the relevant options and tried it on a few albums, but 
apparently, there's nothing there for my samples. I tried some classical 
(Bach, Beethoven) and Rock (Zappa) without apparent success.

Anyway, embedding metadata on performers is not what I'm ultimately 
after. For playlist generation I'd need to get that data into a database 
and in order to do that I need the appropriate ways to query 
MusicBrainz. So, given the MBID for a recording, would a request like 
this be the right way?

http://www.musicbrainz.org/ws/2/recording/e9863849-4bb5-4709-bcf6-
f79e08f09ed5?inc=artist-credits+recording-rels

That request might be handled by some library, of course, I'm just 
trying to get the general idea.

Michael

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