#musicbrainz

hi all

wondering if someone can help me with data from musicbrainz

does anyone know how I can get the full list of artist names from musicbrainz?

To what end?

well I know I can download the full database but it's in prosgres

xml webservice doesn't give complete list only per artist

A complete list would be insnae.

Insane, even.

basically want it in xml format

And I struggle to comprehend a situation where that could possibly be useful.

like www.musicmoz.org gives a dump of it

sxcbello: if you want just the artist list, download the main data dump.

well situation where it would be possible

then look into that file and look for the file called artist.

is say u have an autosuggest type thing

where u want to have a list of artists

so as u type the list is filtered

sxcbello: we have nothing like that.

That would require requesting such a list from the server.

Which would place a reasonable amount of strain upon it.

yeah I'm just testing some stuff out I do agree that a huge list is insane

sxcbello: download the datadump and then parse the artist list with a script.

its not hard to do -- its just a text file.

yeah that's what I'm thinking

is the datadump the only way to get the list

yup.

was more asking if there is a webservices or library that can can querty that

I guess the database it is hehe

is the datadump in b2k format?

posgres format right?

tab delimited fields in UTF-8

mbdump.tar.bz2

oh mad that's cool then

it's 300megs mmm

heeheh

do u have the database

?

if you make a donation, I'll send you just the list of artists. :0)

u got it from the database?

dude, I run this project. I have 8 copies of the data running live.

hehehehe oops

it's just if the data keeps changing

it does. every hour.

do I will have to keep donating ;-)

yup. :-)

if you want the data kept up to date, you have to tap into our live data feed.

but you need to install postgres on linux.

nahh I can live with once a week updates

could u show me what a line of the text file would look like for say "The beatles" or any artist for that matter

then you best write that script and download 300mb

dude. download the dump and get to work.

also with downloading the dump

there is an error when I use the drop downs to ge tit

it says it doesn't exist

i have to change the path to get it to work

the dumps are currently replicating out. it will take a little while for that to finish.

mmm ok so whens the best times to download?

As for your project just wanna say it's pretty cool :-)

maybe u can put a list of artists on ur page ;-) heheh only kidding I'll get to work

thanks for the info

np

just a quick note on ur site u write: Artists 256253

or are they unique artists?

no, that is a separate table. see file aliases

no, the include things like collaborations.

oh ok cool :-)

so for this donation how much?

how many artists will I get?

seriously, just download the data and parse it.

ok then

anyone up?

hi all

howdy

BrianG, yes :)

hi VxJasonxV

hi

so its a music irc ?

eh?

it's an irc, like any other

hey, anyone here using xmms2-scrobbler plugin?

I am

Forever Amarokkin' !

VxJasonxV: did it work straight away first, or did you have to do stuff to get ruby event-loop working?

Amarok sucks (in my setup)

I had to get event-loop working

how?

;(

im stuck...

downloaded http://www.brockman.se/software/ruby-event-loop...

did gem install event-loop-0.2.gem

but it still says it cant find event-loop

hmmmm

no errors during the gem install ?

nope

hmmhmmhmm

I ... sorta remember having this problem? some path problem or something?

not really sure where the problem is to be honest

where is your gemspec.rb file?

i.e. where was it installed too?

because i dont really know how ruby/gem works

I don't either :). Let's work this out together