# \#python **URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/tag/python/512.md [Latest](https://community.metabrainz.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://community.metabrainz.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://community.metabrainz.org/tags.md) --- ## [Searching for songs using the API returns bizzare results](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/searching-for-songs-using-the-api-returns-bizzare-results/815596)
**Author:** [@JasperFomx](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/JasperFomx)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 6, 2026, 8:19pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/searching-for-songs-using-the-api-returns-bizzare-results/815596 "2026-09-06T20:19:19Z")
Searching the API for “Incubus - Wish You Were Here” does not bring up the original version (Morning View) or the rerecorded version (Morning View XXIII) parameters: inc = “recordings+releases”, query = “Incubus - Wis… --- ## [Prospective GSoC 2026 Contributor - Manaswini](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/prospective-gsoc-2026-contributor-manaswini/814075)
**Author:** [@Manaswini](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Manaswini)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [January 26, 2026, 4:52pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/prospective-gsoc-2026-contributor-manaswini/814075 "2026-01-26T16:52:01Z")
Title: Prospective GSoC 2026 Contributor - Manaswini Kalyankar Message Body: Application Template Project Title: ListenBrainz: Enhancing Recommendation Engines with Machine Learning Proposed Project: My project aims t… --- ## [Harmony Assistant - Automated album-importing using Harmony and Selenium](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/harmony-assistant-automated-album-importing-using-harmony-and-selenium/813659)
**Author:** [@Seventeen3780](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Seventeen3780)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [November 3, 2025, 9:56am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/harmony-assistant-automated-album-importing-using-harmony-and-selenium/813659 "2025-11-03T09:56:34Z")
TL;DR: Let me pressent my latest personal project, Harmony Assistant! This tool helps you quick and easy import multiple albums one after another automatically using Harmony. Longer read: I’m curren… --- ## [Query official release date of recording/song](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/query-official-release-date-of-recording-song/576586)
**Author:** [@Bread22](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Bread22)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [June 27, 2024, 2:07pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/query-official-release-date-of-recording-song/576586 "2024-06-27T14:07:44Z")
https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/recording?query=and%20justice%20for%20all%20AND%20artist:metallica%20AND%20status:official i want to find the original release date of 1988 I know I can search specifically for live recordi… --- ## [Exporting Playlist to soundcloud](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/exporting-playlist-to-soundcloud/683824)
**Author:** [@Abhi222](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Abhi222)\ **Replies:** 21\ **Last updated:** [March 4, 2024, 12:10am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/exporting-playlist-to-soundcloud/683824 "2024-03-04T00:10:36Z")
Hello Community, actually had no idea that this project would be there, because earlier on the metabrainz i got stumbled upon how the music activities would be enhanced if worked with other service provider.and Glad tha… --- ## [Isrcsubmit.py fix for Windows Python 3.8+: Could not find module 'discid.dll'](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/isrcsubmit-py-fix-for-windows-python-3-8-could-not-find-module-discid-dll/630230)
**Author:** [@jesus2099](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/jesus2099)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [November 27, 2023, 7:19pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/isrcsubmit-py-fix-for-windows-python-3-8-could-not-find-module-discid-dll/630230 "2023-11-27T19:19:33Z")
I was annoyed for a few month, after my laptop had been reset, I couldn’t use @JonnyJD musicbrainz-isrcsubmit.py anymore on my laptop. As I got the problem on my recent Windows installation, it seems that, without this … --- ## [Tutorial: How to build your own music tagger, with MusicBrainz Canonical Metadata](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/tutorial-how-to-build-your-own-music-tagger-with-musicbrainz-canonical-metadata/641404)
**Author:** [@aerozol](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/aerozol)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [June 15, 2023, 6:05pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/tutorial-how-to-build-your-own-music-tagger-with-musicbrainz-canonical-metadata/641404 "2023-06-15T18:05:10Z")
There’s a new blog post up: How to build your own music tagger, with MusicBrainz Canonical Metadata – MetaBrainz Blog In it @rob, the scalliwag, has outlined how to use our new MusicBrainz Canonical Metadata dataset (li… --- ## [Searching for an exact artist name match](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/searching-for-an-exact-artist-name-match/619689)
**Author:** [@turobiter](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/turobiter)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [January 19, 2023, 9:01am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/searching-for-an-exact-artist-name-match/619689 "2023-01-19T09:01:10Z")
Hi! I’d like for my program to only return results of artists whose names are an exact match with what I searched. I’m trying to figure out a way to alter the below example into code that only returns artists with an E… --- ## [Easy CD AcoustID submit without ripping](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/easy-cd-acoustid-submit-without-ripping/616860)
**Author:** [@jesus2099](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/jesus2099)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [January 4, 2023, 10:05am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/easy-cd-acoustid-submit-without-ripping/616860 "2023-01-04T10:05:46Z")
Is there a way to deactivate multithreading in Picard? Could be with secret command line option, a config file, a global Python option, or anything. Or a command line solution for scanning (fpcalc?) CD tracks + submitt… --- ## [Getting Started with MusicBrainz Database/API](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/getting-started-with-musicbrainz-database-api/587473)
**Author:** [@LookToWindward](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/LookToWindward)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [June 6, 2022, 5:11pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/getting-started-with-musicbrainz-database-api/587473 "2022-06-06T17:11:32Z")
Hi, I’m writing a tool in Python to help organise my music. All I have is the textual artist name, album name and track names(). In the API documentation I found this: On each entity resource, you can perform three dif… --- ## [Release\_type from browse\_release\_groups not filtering as expected](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/release-type-from-browse-release-groups-not-filtering-as-expected/586549)
**Author:** [@emylonas](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/emylonas)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [May 26, 2022, 12:06am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/release-type-from-browse-release-groups-not-filtering-as-expected/586549 "2022-05-26T00:06:44Z")
I have this line of code: releaseGroup\_list = mbz.search\_release\_groups(arid=artistId, release\_type=‘album’, limit=100).get(‘release-group-list’) I expected that to return only release groups of Type = “Album”, but tha… --- ## [MusicBrainz Api get.artist only get specific information](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/musicbrainz-api-get-artist-only-get-specific-information/529759)
**Author:** [@Scrambie](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Scrambie)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2021, 7:57am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/musicbrainz-api-get-artist-only-get-specific-information/529759 "2021-04-19T07:57:25Z")
hey guys, I have a list of MBID’s and i’m trying to get artist information in python however, when i use get\_artist\_by\_id i get all the artist info, how do i just get specific aspects of artist information such as cou… --- ## [Musicbrainz Api to get mbid for a list of artist](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/musicbrainz-api-to-get-mbid-for-a-list-of-artist/529675)
**Author:** [@Scrambie](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Scrambie)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 19, 2021, 7:47am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/musicbrainz-api-to-get-mbid-for-a-list-of-artist/529675 "2021-04-19T07:47:46Z")
Hey everyone. im trying to use the musicbrainz api to give me a list of artist mbid’s so i can further get metadata on them however, when i run my code: def get\_tags(artist): mine = mb.search\_artists(artist)\[‘artist-… --- ## [Search doesn't show all artists](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/search-doesnt-show-all-artists/527412)
**Author:** [@Hedtt](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Hedtt)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2021, 1:14pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/search-doesnt-show-all-artists/527412 "2021-04-03T13:14:00Z")
Hi, a friend of mine and me are doing a university machine learning project. In order to generate new album cover art we need a large quantity of existing cover art to train a neural network (a cGAN to be precise). Curr… --- ## [Python API Country of Origin for Artists](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/python-api-country-of-origin-for-artists/491476)
**Author:** [@IAmTheBlackMetal](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/IAmTheBlackMetal)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [August 30, 2020, 9:01pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/python-api-country-of-origin-for-artists/491476 "2020-08-30T21:01:18Z")
I’ve been working on development of a python based application that takes advantage of the musicbrainz API. I call get\_artist\_by\_id to look up specific artists and I wanted to also try and include the Country of Origin … --- ## [Issue with special characters in API](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/issue-with-special-characters-in-api/433434)
**Author:** [@teastraw](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/teastraw)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [June 28, 2019, 7:30am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/issue-with-special-characters-in-api/433434 "2019-06-28T07:30:05Z")
Hello! I am writing a Python script to pull track and album-level discography data on specific artists to incorporate into a larger program. I am having issues with certain characters in strings pulled from MusicBrainz t… --- ## [Difficulties with work artist aliases](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/difficulties-with-work-artist-aliases/370838)
**Author:** [@dkg](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/dkg)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [July 29, 2018, 10:47pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/difficulties-with-work-artist-aliases/370838 "2018-07-29T22:47:47Z")
As I mentioned a few days ago, I’m rebasing a project on python-musicbrainzngs. In the old code, I would do one API call per track. As I dug into the API, it was looking like I could get away with a lot less. In fact,… --- ## [Picard Python IDE](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/picard-python-ide/391789)
**Author:** [@dpetit12345](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/dpetit12345)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [July 27, 2018, 11:48pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/picard-python-ide/391789 "2018-07-27T23:48:27Z")
Noob here. Which python IDE/editor/dev tools are folks using when developing Picard? Looking for getting started information. --- ## [Using Picard File Object with Non-Plugin Script](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/using-picard-file-object-with-non-plugin-script/380828)
**Author:** [@tedm1106](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/tedm1106)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 17, 2018, 5:06pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/using-picard-file-object-with-non-plugin-script/380828 "2018-05-17T17:06:46Z")
Hello everyone, I am in the midst of writing a Python script (not a Picard plugin, but just a script) to handle some niche parts of my music library and I would like to try using Picard’s metadata system if possible. I… --- ## [This has probably been asked before: with python API, how can I get an Album name candidate from Artist and Track names?](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/this-has-probably-been-asked-before-with-python-api-how-can-i-get-an-album-name-candidate-from-artist-and-track-names/326931)
**Author:** [@Deleted\_Editor\_1948054](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Deleted_Editor_1948054)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [August 26, 2017, 6:20am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/this-has-probably-been-asked-before-with-python-api-how-can-i-get-an-album-name-candidate-from-artist-and-track-names/326931 "2017-08-26T06:20:03Z")
I have a lot of songs for which only the Artist and Track name are available, and am trying to use the python API to get album name and album cover metadata. Using the track name in the query for the search\_releases func… --- ## [\[WIP\] Listenbrainz Scrobbler for minimserver](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/wip-listenbrainz-scrobbler-for-minimserver/291180)
**Author:** [@ehrgeiz](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/ehrgeiz)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [July 6, 2017, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/wip-listenbrainz-scrobbler-for-minimserver/291180 "2017-07-06T12:53:42Z")
I am in the process of writing a small script to submit all music my DLNA server (minimserver) has served to listenbrainz. I wrote that to learn a little bit python. Right now it is just a script you call and runs in the…