MusicBrainz is a community maintained database of music information. One of its primary uses is as a source of metadata for tagging MP3s. It provides a web service to access the data.
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Search query with & in title gives wrong results
I have been testing the musicbrainz API and I found a problem for me. When the title has an '&' in the name the query returns the wrong results.
For example: The title is 'auf & ab' and the query returns a title named 'auf, auf, auf'.
I sort of…

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How to get a custom MP3 tag via Python?
I am working on an algorithm that uses AcousticBrainz API. Part of the process is assigning an audio file with a specific UUID that refers to a file in a database. The tag is added via Picard and is present among other tags when checking e.g. via…

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SQL - Self Join to find two label with a release in common with a third label
I'm using PostgreSQL and PgAdmin 4 and I'm working with MusicBrainz database.
I need to find the couples of label that have never released a release in common, but that they both have released a release with a third label (the same label for…

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Album mbId in track's metadata
I am using MusicBrainz to get a track's meta data. I want to get the track's album's mbid. I am doing the following lookup using ISRC code.
https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/isrc/USRC11600201?fmt=json
But in response I don't get any metadata related…

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musicbrainz unable to count artists by country
Hi i am using the musicbrainz database and i am having trouble counting all the Artists for each country, but no matter what country's i try i get the same error, even when i try using like. PLease can anyone show me what i have done wrong ?
ERROR:…

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Filter results from browse_release_groups by artist_id to get discography, python
I'm trying to retrieve discographies for various artists. Wikipedia and the manual web interface for MusicBrainz.org seem to agree on what albums make this up, for the artists I've checked. My first thought was to attempt to screen-scrape either of…

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RESTful media types for audio/music collection service (with metadata)
I have a large music collection, composed of mp3 files, flac files, and others. I would like to share it with devices on my local network and computers I am using on remote networks. It seems to me that HTTP is eminently well-suited to the sharing…

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How to get work data by recording ID using MusicBrainz Json API?
Many tracks in my library have no language information. It appears that MusicBrainz does not provide language information for a recording, only for a work.
How can I get a work ID if I know recording ID?

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Explain Artist Credit Name in MusicBrainz Schema
Can anyone please explain the tables "artist_credit_name" and "artist_credit" in MusicBrainz Database Schema here http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/-/images/5/52/ngs.png?
What is the foreign key "position" in "artist_credit_name"? and which table does it…

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MusicBrainz API search provides different results from web page
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…

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Musicbrainz database - MySQL lasts too much time to delete or insert
I am trying to import the Musicbrainz db into a MySQL database using Perl scripts from Churruka, not the "official" ones due to not working properly (I consulted here).
Now I have inserted all the tables except 'recording', whose size is 1.39 GB. I…

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How to retrieve recording relationship on release browse request on musicbrainz
i'm currently getting needed information from musicbrainz, using the following
browse request, browsing a specific artists releases + recordings.
for example:…

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Manage with limit and offset in php
I am currently developing a web application that will find artists and their associates titles. To do this, I decided to parse the API MusicBrainz, through this package (which documentation is here).
Suppose I already have the artist mbid (unique…

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Musicbrainz querying artist and release
I am trying to get an artist and their albums. So reading this page https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Development/XML_Web_Service/Version_2 i created the following query to get Michael Jackson's…

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How Can I get all musicbrainz ids associated with an artist?
Given a music brainz artist id (eg - Bob Dylan = 72c536dc-7137-4477-a521-567eeb840fa8 ), I can query music brainz xml web service for his/her tracks:
http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/artist/72c536dc-7137-4477-a521-567eeb840fa8?inc=recordings
The total…

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