mherger wrote: > > I tested this before, but I must be doing something wrong getting the > artist's ID. Just tried it again with the first random artist I picked: > > Adele. Discogs would return no less than 10 artists with this exact name > > (plus a number added). And sure enough the first item returned is not > what > we'd expect. How do you solve this? > My plugin searches for a release by artist, album title and year (I need this for the "Discogs/Release" tab in any case), and then takes the artist(s) ID(s) from the result. This makes sure it gets the correct artist(s) - as you can see from the screenshot, there are at least 8 bands called "Weekend", and the correct one is displayed.
> > Oh, and once I'm done finding the correct artist ID, I'd still have to > run > 12 requests(!) for Peter Gabriel's discography. With a hit rate > limitation > of 1 request per second, this just doesn't work. > My plugin pages the results in chunks of 100, which I think is acceptable from a usability POV > > I didn't find any way to narrow down the results, to eg. only get > masters. > Don't think that's possible. I wouldn't do this anyway, since a significant part of the discography could be missing (e.g. all singles). [ extGUI4LMS - an alternative web interface: 'forum' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?98186-Announce-Alternative-Web-Interface-(beta)) / 'homepage' (http://code.google.com/p/extgui4lms/) ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Roland0's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56808 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99537 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
