[mb-users] Find an MBID from a PUID

[Ryan Parman]

Gotcha. Thanks! :)


On Apr 25, 2008, at 2:15 PM, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:

> 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.
>>
>> 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:
>>
>> 1) genpuid is giving me a PUID of 07042298-3e03-dce3-fce1- 
>> fd9223105d62
>> for the song "All the small things" by Blink-182.
>>
>> 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
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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. :)
>>
>> --
>> Ryan Parman
>> <http://ryanparman.com>
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