tageditor/dbquery/api.md

MusicBrainz API

• Regular meta data is available at http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2 and http://mb.videolan.org/ws/2.
• Cover art is available at http://coverartarchive.org.

Most useful queries

• artist by name

   /artist/?query=artist:$artist_name&inc=releases
  

• albums of artist

   /artist/$artist_id?inc=releases
  

• songs of album

   /release/$album_id?inc=recordings
  

• song by name, album and artist

   /recording?query="$song_name" AND artist:"$artist_name" AND release:"$release_name"
  

• album by name

  /release?query="$album_name"
  

• cover art by album ID

  /release/$album_id/front-500
  

• lyrics: TODO

Misc

• enable JSON response: &fmt=json

See also

• Web Service
• Web Service/Search

Other sources for meta data

TODO