Setting up the AcousticBrainz server

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Hello,

In fact, I am really new to all this world. First, I would like to confirm one thing. I am developping my first app and I would like to use some acousticBrainz capabilities. If I understood well, the only way to consult low-level and high-level data is to install the webserver as explained in https://github.com/metabrainz/acousticbrainz-server and export the data in JSON format.

I tried to install the webserver but I arrived at an error that I cannot resolve. I think it is related to the step “Tweak configuration file” (creating the database). I don’t know what are the changes I have to make.

  • I use Api key from my profile (AcousticBrainz) for the value of SECRET_KEY
  • PG_SUPER_USER and PG_PORT correspond to the configuration of PostgreSQL (there is no problem with the configuration of my user)
  • I changed the OAuth parameters (for my new AcousticBrainz application “Test”)

But I don’t know if I have to able any of the Logging statements or modify any other.

There’s one thing that doesn’t have sense for me. I saw that I should be able to retrive this information doing, for example:
GET https://acousticbrainz.org/api/v1/96685213-a25c-4678-9a13-abd9ec81cf35/low-level
GET https://acousticbrainz.org/api/v1/96685213-a25c-4678-9a13-abd9ec81cf35/high-level
If you have a ressource that I can consult to understand how to implemented it, it would be really cool.

Thank you!

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You should not need to install the acousticbrainz server to use the data.
Just call the web services to retrieve the data see http://acousticbrainz.org/data

The id used for acousticbrainz.org is the musicbrainz recording id.
You may need to query the musicbrainz web service to find the recording id’s.
https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Development/XML_Web_Service/Version_2

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At the end, I made the decision to install the server. But I still couldn’t solve the error I found previously.

Thank you!