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Question

How can I get related topics given an mid?

Aka I have the mid: '/m/0mgcr', which is the offspring
and I want to get a list of related bands.

What's the best way to tackle this?

Another way to ask this would probably be:

If I have a band that has multiple genres how do I find all other bands that have the exact same genres as that band? not just one...

If you have the genre, just make sure you put the query in an array in order to have the API return a list of results. However, for the general problem of finding related entities, I don't think this is supported... you may want to load the RDF dumps, instead, and then use some custom processing in order to do that. — Michael Aaron Safyan, Jul 13 '14 at 06:08
thanks thats what I was trying but I cant quite get the right syntax for that query! Do you know what it is? — gbachik, Jul 13 '14 at 06:23
{ "type": "/music/artist", "name": [], "genre": [ "Rock music", "Ska", "Reggae", "New Wave", "Post-punk", "Pop rock", "2 Tone", "Punk rock", "Reggae fusion", "Ska punk", "Jazz fusion", "Reggae rock" ] } — gbachik, Jul 13 '14 at 08:16

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 14 '14 at 00:54

It might be easier to use the reverse edge to go from the genre to the artists in that genre. Example:

{
 "type": "/music/genre",
 "mid": "/m/07sbbz2",
 "artists": [{
   "mid": null,
   "name": null
 }]
}

This will give you the name and machine ID of the artists in the genre "/m/07sbbz2" (Rock and roll).

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