Cannot find artist by Artist Name
Posted 28 Aug 2019, 19:24:16
When I use the 1.0/search/artist method in Swagger, and use the artist name of Genesis I get back 103 artists with the word Genesis contained in it, but not the well known English rock band. I went to Music Brainz to find their ID 8e3fcd7d-bda1-4ca0-b987-b8528d2ee74e I plug that into the 1.0/artist/{mbid} method I get the correct result. Is this possibly an issue with the database entry for this artist or a bug in the 1.0/search/artist method that doesn't parse the artist name correctly?
Posted 29 Aug 2019, 6:35:46
The English rock band is somewhere on page two. However the easiest solution for your use case is to use “relevance” as sort param instead of the standard “sortName”. I.e. something like sort=relevance. This way the English rock band returns at position 1.
Last edited 29 Aug 2019, 6:36:03
Posted 29 Aug 2019, 21:38:16
Thank you for responding. I was a bit confused by the pages parameter. Your suggestion works great!
Thank you.
Andy
