I'm trying to work with MusicBrainz's API but I'm having some issues with the results of the search endpoint.
Let's have an example searching for Who's Who? - SIZE020 - Klack (Mix Two)
Searching from their site leads to this page, with an almost correct first result (probably because the 100% correct infos are not on the database at all).
Using the API leads to different situations which are causing some issues. I made some different attempts with no success, even if I think I know enough of Lucene's syntax to write a successful query for this service.
- Take 1 - empty results with the query "Who's Who? - SIZE020 - Klack (Mix Two)"
- Take 2 - completely wrong results with the query Who's+Who%3F+-+SIZE020+-+Klack+(Mix+Two) (same result with the unescaped ? character)
- Take 3 - empty results with the query "Who's" AND "Who?" AND "SIZE020" AND "Klack" AND "Mix" AND "Two"
Now, I know that SIZE020 shouldn't be in the query, but I don't want to deal with file names on client side so I'm just pushing the query to their service hoping that everything will work. And it works, but only if I query the service through their website, making me think that my query syntax is wrong and leaving me clueless.
Do you have any hint on why I get different results between website and xml API?
EDIT: as a side question, given a random file name, what's the better way to submit the query? I'm getting good result using the web version and submitting the typical mp3 filenames (like artist_-_title_(version).mp3 but I'm not getting anything good from my client.
