[mb-users] Find an MBID from a PUID

[Philip Jägenstedt]

Hi!

A PUID is not the same thing as an MBID. Artists, releases and tracks
in MusicBrainz all have MBIDs. Tracks can be associated with PUID:s
however, so you can do a lookup via PUID using

http://musicbrainz.org/ws/1/track/?type=xml&puid=07042298-3e03-dce3-fce1-fd9223105d62

As you can see, there are quite a few tracks with that PUID.

Philip

On 4/25/08, Ryan Parman <ryan.lists.warpshare at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm relatively new to the MusicBrainz community, so forgive me if I've
>  missed something.
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>  I'm looking up the PUIDs of a few test MP3's using genpuid under
>  Fedora 8. I'm using the resulting PUID to query the MusicBrainz
>  XMLWebService. For example:
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>  1) genpuid is giving me a PUID of 07042298-3e03-dce3-fce1-fd9223105d62
>  for the song "All the small things" by Blink-182.
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>  2) I then use that PUID to construct a query to MusicBrainz like so: http://musicbrainz.org/ws/1/track/07042298-3e03-dce3-fce1-fd9223105d62?type=xml
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>  3) I receive a 404 error. What surprises me is that this is (or was) a
>  fairly popular song at one point, and it's not coming up. However, if
>  I do a string-based query using "blink-182" for the artist and "all
>  the small things" as the track name, I get results back.
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>  I've tested 6 MP3's so far, and I've received 404's for ALL of them
>  from the MusicBrainz service. My question is, am I doing this right?
>  Do I need to somehow look up an MBID for a PUID and use that resulting
>  MBID in the query to the XMLWebService?
>
>  Thanks. :)
>
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>  Ryan Parman
>  <http://ryanparman.com>
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