I’m trying to identify if and how is possible to retrieve the artists’ entities related to a particular album (or track, if I don’t need that precision).
For example, given “A Kind of Magic” album, I’d like to be able to relate the members that played at the time (and that may be different along the life of the band), as Wikipedia does here: A Kind of Magic - Wikipedia.
Is there a way through API to find that?
Thanks!
You can extract the relationships, which include things like composers, performers, etc., using the API if you add the necessary inc parameters, resulting in this rather large API query:
https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release/d90c5f8b-b8ee-404a-8214-dbad99df2179?fmt=json&inc=recordings+work-rels+recording-rels+recording-level-rels+work-level-rels+artist-rels
Performers and composers are indicated using relationships (either on the recordings for performers or on the works for composers/lyricists).
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