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 10:18 PM, Michael Schuerig <

[...]
> > 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-fad
> ee5cb3dcc?inc=artist-credits+artist-rels (changed
> the example recording because the one you were using just doesn't
> have recording relationships at all)

Thanks, that looks good. I'll take a sample of recordings and check if 
the relevant data is available to make playlist creation viable.

Michael

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