Currently, searching from either a Spotify artist link or ID is possible.
Features:
- Pulling an artist from the Spotify API and Cross referencing them with artists that have a Spotify link associated with them
- Pulling songs from the Spotify API and Cross-referring them with releases from the given artist
- Displaying the song’s status of existence on the MB database:
- Red: This Spotify album has no link or name matches present
- Orange: This Spotify album has a MB release with a matching name
- Green: This Spotify album has a MB release with the same associated Spotify link
- Importing albums via A-Tisket or Harmony
- Importing new artists into MB
- Searching the Spotify API for artists
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Nice tool! I had been working on-and-off on something similar but I haven’t had a lot of time recently.
One bug report: Your tool generates URLs that include a URL parameter named mbid, which unfortunately ends up stripped from the URL by the tracking protection in some browsers (notably Firefox). As a consequence, every input results in an “Invalid URL” error page. This should be easily fixed by renaming the parameter to something like artist_mbid.
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I haven’t run into this issue myself even when using Firefox’s “strict” tracker blocking, but I have implemented this fix.
The artist page will still accept the legacy parameter “mbid” but the search page will no longer generate urls with it.
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Update: SAMBL now supports searching for Spotify artists!
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Update: it turns out you can fetch releases by artist mbid more than 15 at a time… I dont know why I thought this was was the case…
Regardless, the artist page will now load mb albums significantly faster, 50 at a time instead of 15, which also reduces necessary api calls by a significant margin.
