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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Automating SPARQL queries on MusicBrainz endpoint
I'm currently working on a project and I can't manage to figure out how to retrieve data (giving for example an artist/song/album name) from MusicBrainz.
To be more specific
My final goal is to have something similar to this one script that works on…
Salvatore Perri
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Dealing with request rate limits, MusicBrainz API
Question: Is a time delay a good way of dealing with request rate limits?
I am very new to requests, APIs and web services. I am trying to create a web service that, given an ID, makes a request to MusicBrainz API and retrieves some information.…
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MusicBrainz Picard error tagging video files
MusicBrainz Picard is an excellent music tagging tool, able to fingerprint audio, even in video files… in theory! It's just not being able to write the tags onto the video files, spewing this error instead (line numbers may vary):
E: 11:16:58…
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Getting the official release id in MusicBrainz
I am doing the ISRC lookup for eg.
https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/isrc/SEUM71401533?inc=releases
In the response I get list of releases. Now how do I filter the one official release. There are many official releases. I just want to get the cover art…
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Musicbrainz query case sensitive?
I'm running a Java application that queries the Musicbrainz database for info and I ran into a peculiar problem. The query that my application builds (using java.net.URL.URL) is as…
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What's the correct interpretation of this byte string?
In a friend's music directory, I came across this path and filename:
Ministry/Κî•Î¦Î‘Î›Î—Îžî˜ (Psalm 69)/Ministry - Κî•Î¦Î‘Î›Î—Îžî˜ (Psalm 69) - 06 - Scarecrow.mp3
You can google Ministry Κî•Î¦Î‘Î›Î—Îžî˜ and get results. If I feed it into a url…
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Query SQL: List the pairs of artists who have never collaborated with each other but have collaborated with a third artist in common
I have this table called FEATURING:
* Artist_1, join_phrase, Artist_2 *
Shakira feat. Rihanna
Eminem feat. Rihanna
Sia feat. Eminem
SeanPaul feat. Sia
Queen feat. …
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SQL: Take the oldest date from a table like [ date_year, date_month, date_day ]
i have this table called RELEASE:
*Country, Album, Date_year, Date_month, Date_day*
Italy Z 1940 2 27
Italy Y 1992 11 22
Italy X 1940 1 20
Italy R 1998 null…
Ralph
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Querying https://musicbrainz.org for all artists
How can I query for all artists who were born after 1720 and died before 1900 on https://musicbrainz.org?
I need to retrieve their IDs and some information about them.
Is it possible to get data in JSON format?
Lukas Navickas
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MusicBrainz Server Update
I successfully installed a freshly downloaded virtual instance a few days ago, running in VirtualBox on Windows 10. Seems to be working fine. Noticed that under 'Statistics' on the home page is was dated April 2016. Configured with a key for…
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How to get information about the series a release belongs to via Musicbrainz
I plan to extend the music library manager beets, which relies on Musicbrainz as backend.
What I want to do is find out the Series a Compilation belongs to given the MBID of the compilation.
When you open a release in the WEB-Interface, the "release…
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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?
Andrei Volgin
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Musicbrainz SQL database
While searching for a music database I came across musicbrainz, I found a SQLite Musicbrainz database.
You can find the database scheme here.
and a file with create table statements and explanatory comments here.
The problem is that I only need the…
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How long until a song shows up on the Musicbrainz XML/JSON service?
I just added a release that wasn't on musicbrainz before:
http://musicbrainz.org/release-group/8f6f6155-20dd-4960-9381-47805e6b50f5
Here's my query for that song that's returning 0…
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musicbrainzngs gives partial results when using release_type list
I have the following code that returns all results ( and all types )
import musicbrainzngs
result = musicbrainzngs.browse_release_groups("cc2c9c3c-b7bc-4b8b-84d8-4fbd8779e493")
I just want to filter the results in the API vs the code by setting…
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