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Musicbrainz Lookup Discid Example

MusicMetadataEncyclopediaOpen DataCatalogIdentifiersISRCISWCMBIDDiscIDArtistsReleasesRecordingsWorksLabelsCover ArtOpen-SourceNon-Profit

Musicbrainz Lookup Discid Example is an example object payload from MusicBrainz, with 3 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

operationrequestresponse

Example Payload

{
  "operation": "lookupReleasesByDiscID",
  "request": {
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2/discid/49HHV7Eb8UKF3aQiNmu1GR8vKjY-",
    "headers": {
      "User-Agent": "ApiEvangelistDemo/1.0 ( contact@example.com )",
      "Accept": "application/json"
    },
    "parameters": {
      "inc": "artists+recordings",
      "cdstubs": "no",
      "fmt": "json"
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "body": {
      "id": "49HHV7Eb8UKF3aQiNmu1GR8vKjY-",
      "sectors": 178054,
      "offsets": [150, 22995, 41758, 59765, 79850, 100450, 119500, 138123, 156540],
      "releases": [
        {
          "id": "76df3287-6cda-33eb-8e9a-044b5e15ffdd",
          "title": "Nevermind",
          "status": "Official",
          "quality": "normal",
          "date": "1991-09-24",
          "country": "US",
          "barcode": "720642442524",
          "artist-credit": [
            {
              "name": "Nirvana",
              "artist": {
                "id": "5b11f4ce-a62d-471e-81fc-a69a8278c7da",
                "name": "Nirvana",
                "sort-name": "Nirvana"
              }
            }
          ],
          "release-group": {
            "id": "1b022e01-4da6-387b-8658-8678046e4cef",
            "title": "Nevermind",
            "primary-type": "Album"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

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