Hey!

I've been working on this for a few days and can't really figure it out.

In general, my goal is to give gomusicbrainz a MBID and get returned the URL relationships (Wikipedia, official website, Spotify, etc..).

For instance, this is my best try:

    // Grab Musicbrainz artist
    musicbrainzArtist, err := musicbrainzClient.LookupArtist(
        gomusicbrainz.MBID(artist.MusicbrainzID), "url-rels",
    )
    if err != nil {
        log.Warn(err)
        continue
    }
    // List all url 
    for _, url := range musicbrainzArtist.Relations["url"] {
        fmt.Println(gomusicbrainz.URLRelation(url).Target) // error, don't know what to do here
    }

My question is: How do I convert a gomusicbrainz.Relation to gomusicbrainz.URLRelation?

On the musicbrainz web site, searching for the artist Slave Raider ( https://musicbrainz.org/search?query=slave+raider&type=artist&method=indexed ), I see the Artist ID is 49950dec-e4c4-4177-808d-bab8ab028665.

In search_artist.go, I changed the artist.

Name: Slave Raider Score: 100

All the 100 does is tell me how good of a match 49950dec-e4c4-4177-808d-bab8ab028665 ID is, but it doesn't provide the ID! I fail to even grasp what this purpose of this example is. How do I get the artistID?

Some recordings don't have a date, so Go crashes when comparing "" to "2006". This is a small workaround to prevent that and allow the program to fallback to Go's default value.

Hi! I'm starting to use gomusicbrainz in my project and encountered a quite simple but annoying issue - there are 2 cases that call log.Fatalln(err) (namely https://github.com/michiwend/gomusicbrainz/blob/master/gomusicbrainz.go#L140 and https://github.com/michiwend/gomusicbrainz/blob/master/gomusicbrainz.go#L147), and thus don't give any chance to handle these errors.

Is there any reason to consider these errors really fatal? Looks like simple return err should be enough here.

This ensures things like our custom UserAgent get preserved if the server does a redirect (my mirror enforces SSL, for example).

See golang/go#4800

Code cribbed from gyuho/gon

It returns

expected element type <metadata> but have <error>

when performing a lookup like this

artist, err := client.LookupArtist("9a709693-b4f8-4da9-8cc1-038c911a61be", "discids")

This is so clients can implement Basic or Digest auth. The spec mentions digest auth, but the server I'm using also supports basic auth.

So, you can do something like this:

client.RequestFilter = func(req *http.Request) {
    req.SetBasicAuth("username", "password")
}

However, I'm aware this is a hack... and I'm not even sure if it can be used for Digest auth... if you have any suggestions as to a better way to do this, I'd be happy to do that instead.

Hi there,

I see there's no much activity since 2015, but I'm curious if the project is still alive. If yes, then are you planning to add support for browse requests?

Or would you accept a PR? Thanks!