#musicbrainz

I have another question about the web services that bugs me out a little

I pass this URL: musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release-group/?artist=5b11...

.. and I expect to get only Albums by said artist

…but?

but for some reason, it also gives me Compilations? is this intended?

Yes

Compilations are still albums.

<primary-type>Album</primary-type>

<secondary-type>Compilation</secondary-type>

I'm trying to summarize official discography by an artist, so I'd like to filter out all Compilations

I've tried various ways of type=!Compilation, primary-type=... etc

but maybe it's just not possible?

ideally, I'd like to do type=Album&type=EP&type=Single to only get those types back

I also noted that I get the web service returns <secondary-type>DJ-mix</secondary-type> which is not one of the officially listed types on http://musicbrainz.org/doc/XML_Web_Service/Vers...

then the documentation is out of date

sorry about complaining btw! I really appreciate having the WS available

I don't know of a way to exclude all release groups with secondary types set, so I think you'll need to exclude them all one by one in the query :/

that sounds like something we should add support for.

a secondary type for studio would probably make more sense for what people want to do that for

oh, nice! I haven't seen the secondarytype: in the online manual either, but maybe I've just overlooked it

hakko: no you didn't overlook it, it isn't there :/

I was using http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Indexed_Search_Syntax since I normally do my searches on the website itself (the query parameter for the webservice is the same as the advanced indexed search on the website, so they have the same fields available)

I'll check that and see if I come up with something that fits my needs, thanks!

but it's no big deal, right now, I just exclude what I don't need locally.

nikki_: I'd support a "studio" secondary type.

so would I.

me three :)

and me :)

but who will actually bother to propose it? :P

i might - thats a schema proposal not a style proposal, right? :P

we should be doing nothing but cover art until we get up over 50%

:-)

50% of what? the total releases in mb?!

man, cleaning out your email inbox makes everything nicer.

sry, cat walked on keyboard

that cat is a good at spelling and typing english.

I was about to say I have 9259 unread e-mails, even with heaps of filters

he only pressed enter this time, but I'll tell him.

that needs a few "Mark all as read" clicks

(I have about 100 if I count everything, but most of that doesn't need much attention)

(some in this channel will probably disagree with that last part)

hehe

now, my mailing lists folder - that's another story ;)

I'll just need to add more filters, I'd estimate 80% of the mail in my inbox is from old mailing lists/bulk/etc I neglected to make a filter for

kovacsur: I never managed to make that work.

kovacsur: I always needed just a few more filters

(regardless of how many I added)

so now I just whitelist real people, their mail can stay in the inbox. everything else which isn't otherwise sorted (mailing lists, etc..) goes into a machines folder, which is almost like a spam folder with only spam I've somehow subscribed to.

MBS is ultra slow for me

kaik is a monster..

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LordSputnik: it would still need to go through the style list though

ah

nikki: didn't get the first half of that, if there was one :P

LordSputnik: oh, I'm just continuing conversations from hours ago :P regarding "studio"

nikki: if I put something through the style list, who knows what may come out the other side :P

nikki: we'll probably end up with a whole load of new secondary types, and none of them will be "studio"

;)

heh

otherwise the answer is simply "those don't depend on this, if you want those, feel free to make your own proposal" :P

err, this doesn't depend on those

helps if I get it the right way round

:D

nikki: btw, that MassTagger thing, I'm rewriting in python, so you won't have to mess around with a load of C++ compiling and cross-platform issues :P