[mb-users] Find an MBID from a PUID

[Chad Wilson]

If you haven't seen it already, 
http://www.musicbrainz.org/doc/HowPUIDsWork may be useful to you. :)

Chad / voice

Ryan Parman wrote:
> 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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