• Registered: 2012-07-15

Topic: How to get only studio album with ws

I wish to achieve only official studio album, which is the exactly result shown under first section (Album) of the artist

e.g.

http://musicbrainz.org/artist/eeb1195b- … 65211f8e43

shows only

1987    Appetite for Destruction   
1988    G N' R Lies   
1991    Use Your Illusion I   
1991    Use Your Illusion II   
1993    "The Spaghetti Incident?"   
2008    Chinese Democracy

I tried with

http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release?art … s=official

but it's not enough (65 results)

What can I do ?

  • From: Singapore
  • Registered: 2007-02-13

Re: How to get only studio album with ws

The overview page is displaying release groups not releases. Status is an attribute of a release, rather than a group so this is more complicated than it might appear.

It's complicated by the fact that the recent release to expand release types into primary and secondary appears to have broken the filtering so now you get back things you didn't used to when asking for "Album":
http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release-gro … type=album

The above used to return only studio albums but now gets back compilations. http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/MBS-4736 seems to be related.

I don't think there is a single-query way of doing this except via a search, e.g.
http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release-gro … s:official

But in search you don't get all the same details as a filtered query.

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  • Registered: 2012-07-15

Re: How to get only studio album with ws

I see. Thank you a lot for the detailed response :-)