How to get lyricist and composer by API?

[Acccept]

Hi,

first I wish a Happy New Year to everyone. Let’s hope 2021 will be much better than 2020.

I use MP3Tag for tagging my music archive and I also want to tag composer and lyricist. Til now I do this manually, but these data are already in die Musicbrainz database. One example:
https://musicbrainz.org/release/ce3d04b0-0aaf-416f-b9a5-3cd60a7e6850

The XML structure generated by the API doesn’t provide the information for lyricist and composer:
http://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/release/ce3d04b0-0aaf-416f-b9a5-3cd60a7e6850?inc=artists+artist-credits+labels+recordings+release-groups

Is there a way to get these information or to extend the API for this purpose?

[loujin]

@Acccept

Is there a way to get these information or to extend the API for this purpose?

The composer/lyricist information is on the Work entity, not the Recording, so you should look for the “inc=work-rels” option in the API.

You can take a look at older messages on the forum where this was mentioned, e.g.

Recording Relationships

Sorry, I forgot to mention that you also need the work-rels included, because the works are linked to a recording also. So this will work: https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/recording/73008554-ec01-48d7-96fc-e76a75024201?inc=work-level-rels+work-rels+artist-rels So to get the composer you search the recording for <relation-list target-type="work">, and there you look for a work linked to the recording with the relation type “performance”. This will give you the work, which again will have relationsh…

Looking for API Call providing writer, composer, cover recording details

Hello I’m lookin to find detailed information of a release, e.g. writer/composer, cover recording e.g. for the song “Love in vain”, composer etc in, e.g. here the below link. [https://musicbrainz.org/release/a2151a7b-d584-3d93-9d7f-b72da6bbcaa0](htt I would like to find the exact same info by using the API. The json link under TAB: Details suggests: Release info json Link Unfortunately the info is not the same. I tried all kind of different API calls, using artist credits, but whatever I do…

[jesus2099]

@Acccept, I think for this, Mp3tag should add work credit support.
I found some related topics in their forum.
You could maybe jump in some conversation to ask feature request.

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MusicBrainz lookup in Mp3tag:

@Florian

@nalixl

I’d really like optional support for a composer tag too

Try View, Tags…

I think it’s not really a solution here, I think Florian did not really understand the question.
Now that I am on Linux, I don’t have Mp3tag to make sure.

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[WS] MusicBrainz XML Webservice:

@Beluna

I don’t see the track info (composer, credits, recording) in the tags from Musicbrainz website.

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Improve MusicBrainz scrapper:

@1024mb

the writer, lyricist, composer, country, barcode and language tags aren’t downloaded/used.