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Hey guys, using the suggest feature to let someone choose an artist, however the suggest api doesn't include the foreign ids capability.

I see how I can use search to get a foreign id, but I can't use the echo nest id in the search api, only the name. My concern is now I am possibly adding the wrong artist for the user based on what the search comes up with (especially for multiple artists with the same name).

Is there a way to get the foreign id's of an artist using their echo nest ID (or another 'exact' method to get the id I need?)

Thanks for your help!

ivanmayes - you can use the artist/profile method to get a foreign id given an Echo Nest artist ID. Here's an example:

http://developer.echonest.com/api/v4/artist/profile?api_key=N6E4NIOVYMTHNDM8J&id=ARH6W4X1187B99274F&bucket=id:musicbrainz&bucket=id:7digital-US

Hope this helps

Paul

My apologies, I read through twice and missed it twice. Took me posting this to find it right after. Thanks for the quick response!

Hi,

thanks for the great service that you are providing !

I would like to retrieve fma artist IDs.

http://developer.echonest.com/api/v4/artist/profile?api_key=N6E4NIOVYMTHNDM8J&id=ARH6W4X1187B99274F&bucket=id:musicbrainz&bucket=id:7digital-US

This works for bucket=id:7digital-US .

I cant get to search for fma artist IDs.

This will not give me an fma artistID: http://developer.echonest.com/api/v4/artist/profile?api_key=N6E4NIOVYMTHNDM8J&id=ARH6W4X1187B99274F&bucket=id:musicbrainz&bucket=id:fma

Thanks for your help!

Hi, all.

I'm having the same problem as ahacome. Some buckets like 7digital-US or musicbrainz work pretty well.

When I try to use FMA though, it doesn't return foreign ids.

Hi Netto - the FMA catalog is a somewhat small catalog. It is likely that you are searching for content that just is not in the FMA catalog.

Here's an example all that returns FMA IDs:

http://developer.echonest.com/api/v4/song/search?api_key=FILDTEOIK2HBORODV&format=json&results=10&sort=song_hotttnesss-desc&bucket=id:fma&limit=true&bucket=tracks

-- Paul

Yeah, you're right. I figured this out about like 10 minutes later. I forgot to add the limit=true part, so I would actually not see the fma results.

thanks!