Hello all, so have been using the api to get artists->albums->tracks and save them in MySQL DB
Long story short, after 29k tracks and more than 19k albums and nearly 900 bands, I lost my artist table and albums table… All I have is the tracks (recording) table that contains mbid of each recording, position in the album…
Is there a way to use this information to restore my albums and bands using the api?
You can do a lookup of recordings to see what the artist is for that track.
You can also get a list of albums this recording was found on and this can be a large list and include compilations.
There may be several editions of a release ie the base release, a release with bonus tracks, a different edition in another country etc so you may need to decide what release is the one you want.