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

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Michael Schuerig <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.


I think you'd want
http://www.musicbrainz.org/ws/2/recording/8f1782b8-cac1-4588-9314-fadee5cb3dcc?inc=artist-credits+artist-rels
(changed
the example recording because the one you were using just doesn't have
recording relationships at all)

-- 
Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren

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