# Album Credits

**URL:** <https://community.metabrainz.org/t/album-credits/350280>\
**Category:** Development\
**Tags:** webservice, musicbrainz\
**Created:** [January 3, 2018, 5:36am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/album-credits/350280 "2018-01-03T05:36:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![tharper1977](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@tharper1977](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/tharper1977)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 5:36am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/album-credits/350280/1 "2018-01-03T05:36:58Z")

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I am trying to figure out what I need to do to get the album credits for a release. By this, I mean what the members of the group are, what they played, who wrote the track, etc. I am unable to figure this out with Musicbrainz. I am looking to do something similar to the following link:

[Release “A Trick of the Tail” by Genesis - MusicBrainz](https://musicbrainz.org/release/98bcb743-7eae-4d72-8ea3-c1788876ac7a) where I can see who wrote the tracks, who are the performers, engineers, etc.

In my queries on this release such as [A Trick of the Tail](http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release/98bcb743-7eae-4d72-8ea3-c1788876ac7a?inc=recordings), i get the info for a track, but I am not able to get any more details.

If I go to a recording such as [http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/recording/19bddd86-ba35-4b43-824c-3d2e58c8df7e?fmt=json](http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/recording/19bddd86-ba35-4b43-824c-3d2e58c8df7e?fmt=json), I get the following json: {“disambiguation”:“”,“video”:false,“length”:355400,“title”:“Dance on a Volcano”,“id”:“19bddd86-ba35-4b43-824c-3d2e58c8df7e”}

I have played with the queries as best as I can with the developers information, but cannot get anywhere.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![dns\_server](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/dns_server/32/175_2.png) [@dns\_server](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/dns_server)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 7:02am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/album-credits/350280/2 "2018-01-03T07:02:34Z")

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You need to include more things you want returned ie include more things to the inc=  
For instruments you need instrument-rels, for work credits you need work-rels  
For example the following will have who played what instrument as well as writing credits.  
[http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release/f6758afb-ecff-410e-8979-b131cfa3c6d3?inc=recordings+artists+artist-credits+artist-rels+instrument-rels+recording-level-rels+work-rels](http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release/f6758afb-ecff-410e-8979-b131cfa3c6d3?inc=recordings+artists+artist-credits+artist-rels+instrument-rels+recording-level-rels+work-rels)

See the documentation: [MusicBrainz API - MusicBrainz](https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Development/XML_Web_Service/Version_2)

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**Author:** ![tharper1977](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@tharper1977](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/tharper1977)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 3:10am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/album-credits/350280/3 "2018-01-04T03:10:59Z")

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Thanks for the help. I was able to get what I was looking for:

[http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release/705659cc-6095-4950-ba22-863d3dbd3e6b?inc=recordings+artists+artist-credits+artist-rels+instrument-rels+recording-level-rels+work-rels+work-level-rels+label-rels+ratings+labels](http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release/705659cc-6095-4950-ba22-863d3dbd3e6b?inc=recordings+artists+artist-credits+artist-rels+instrument-rels+recording-level-rels+work-rels+work-level-rels+label-rels+ratings+labels)

The documentation is a little lax on what the relationships will do. Your example led me to that I was trying to get. to.