#musicbrainz

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      • reosarevok
        Argh
      • I'm so annoyed with the Discogs importer breaking classical releases *and* with users not checking half the time
      • Maybe I should take some time to try and fix the importer... has anyone tried?
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      • em7272
        hi, new to musicbrainz but is there any way to query the database and then download the result instead of doing it locally?
      • kepstin
        you can download a snapshot of the database from https://beta.musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Da... which you can import into a local db engine to run queries on, if you like
      • er, i guess that's what you mean by "doing it locally"
      • no, the musicbrainz folks will not run arbitrary sql queries on your behalf :)
      • (anything you can do via the apis you're welcome to do, of course)
      • em7272
        yeah lol sorry just was wondering if it was hosted online anywhere, thank you for the help!!
      • crism
        em7272, what exactly are you trying to achieve? If you’re trying to import a subset of MBz data into a local database, there are a few different things you could do… but if there’s a particular problem you’re trying to solve or question to answer, there might be a variety of solutions.
      • kepstin
      • em7272
        not super well-versed with this so bear with me but i'd like to get just the artists and area columns from the basic database without the rest
      • that api search link looks promising thank you kepstin!
      • kepstin
        I'm not sure what you mean by "artist columns"
      • artists aren't a single column pretty much anywhere in musicbrainz - and artists of what? tracks, recordings, releases, release groups, etc.?
      • crism
        Be warned that “the basic database” isn’t… it’s a brilliantly complicated mess of join tables, aggressively normalized.
      • em7272
        sorry literally just artist names
      • kepstin
        but artists have multiple names
      • and recordings, releases, etc can have multiple artists
      • you have to be more specific about what you want :)
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      • em7272
        a list of artist names with their associated area .. is that possible
      • kepstin
        i don't see any way to do that without building a custom query against the full db.
      • (note that our artist-area information isn't particularly complete)
      • rdswift
        Also bear in mind that there are just over 1.9 million artist records in the database.
      • kepstin
        technically that information is all in the search index together
      • but paging through all the results of the search api for all 1.9 million artists.. would take a while :)
      • rdswift
        Yup. Sounds like running a local copy of the database is the way to go.
      • crism
        I would just download the full thing, do some subsetting queries, export the results, and run with that. If you’re hurting for space, spin up a free-tier AWS instance to do the work.
      • rdswift
        👍
      • em7272
        thank you so much for your help crism kepstin rdswift this is all very good to know
      • kepstin
        (if you go at max permitted rate and don't get blocked it would take about 5½ hours to pull this all from the api, heh)
      • rdswift
        Actually, that might be less time than it takes to set up the database locally. ;-)
      • kepstin
        yeah, but if you decide you want some extra information later you can amortize the database setup time
      • rdswift
      • kepstin
        for your use case since you'd just want to do queries in the database, consider using the 'mbdata' tool (linked from the docs) rather than doing a full server setup.
      • alternatively, there's a docker setup nowadays that's simpler than the old days of manual setup :)
      • rdswift
        "but if you decide you want some extra information later you can amortize the database setup time"... Exactly the reason I would download the whole thing and query it locally.
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      • em7272
        just doublechecking then, i should follow the instructions here https://github.com/metabrainz/musicbrainz-docker (not setting up replication or live indexing)
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      • rdswift
        I think that will set up the whole server. If all you want is the database, you might want to look at https://github.com/lalinsky/mbdata
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