1 Topic by marciooo (edited by marciooo 2012-08-25 19:22:23)

  • Registered: 2012-07-24

Topic: Data from MB on my site

Hello,
I would like to place MusicBrainz data (of one artist) on my wordpress website. Could someone help? I don't know how to use XML Web Service.
There are some examples on the web, like
http://musicwn.com/browse.php?artist=Ma … c3f15c1287
http://beardscratchers.com/artist/madon … c3f15c1287
http://keoby.com/artist/89
http://music.aol.com/artist/madonna/albums

Thanks.

  • From: AZ, USA
  • Registered: 2012-08-20

Re: Data from MB on my site

http://musicbrainz.org/doc/XML%20Web%20 … ersion%202 are the docs for the web service, which should provide a good start if you'd like to use that route.

ianmcorvidae's Website

  • Registered: 2012-07-24

Re: Data from MB on my site

But it's not clear for me... I don't know what to do with this.

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

Re: Data from MB on my site

If you want more help, you're going to have to ask more specific questions, give some background on what type of knowledge you have of technology/programming languages; some more specific background on what you're trying to achieve and outline the bits that you do understand vs. the bits you don't.

In a general sense, if you want to get MB data onto any website, you need to write code. You can write code that calls the XML Web Service, or you can import the MB database and write SQL that queries the database. Neither of these are trivial undertakings, so I doubt anyone would do it for a single artist. There's no widget you can embed to a blog or anything like that.

voiceinsideyou's Website

  • Registered: 2007-07-09

Re: Data from MB on my site

If you only want to display the list of albums from Madonna, than it would be
http://musicbrainz.org/artist/79239441- … c3f15c1287
-> funny, that your first two URL's uses the same MBID .-)

  • Registered: 2012-07-24

Re: Data from MB on my site

So there are no examples? As I said before, I'l like to embed content from MB - all atrist's releases and songs.

Maybe there is other way to use MB with my own template?