Search artists and albums returns IDs that cannot be used for getArtist(), and getAlbum().

[n1ck3]

Search artists and albums returns IDs that cannot be used for getArtist(), and getAlbum().

[crustymonkey]

After taking a look at this again, I remember what the issue is here. The subsonic API version 1.8.0 introduced a number of new methods that operate on the ID3 tags vs. the old way of a simple directory structure. If you used the id number with the getMusicDirectory() method, you should end up getting the results you want. So, this would work:

c = Connection('https://music.example.com' , 'user' , 'password')
s = c.search2('tribe called quest' , 1 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0)
json.dumps(c.getMusicDirectory(ret['searchResult2']['artist']['id']) , 
    sort_keys=True , indent=2)

I'm currently updating the documentation at https://stuffivelearned.org/doku.php?id=programming:python:py-sonic with all the 1.8.0 API version items, but until I'm done a pydoc libsonic.connection will show you basically the same thing. Anything that has a reference to "using ID3 tags" will not be compatible with the older methods of using the simple directory structure. I'm going to make a note of that on the aforementioned documentation page as well as even I had completely forgotten about that.

To use the getArtist(), getAlbum(), etc. You would probably want to start with a getArtists() call and manually search for what you want to display.

[crustymonkey]

Oh, I should have also mentioned that search3() will return results by ID3 tag.

[crustymonkey]

I've update the documentation at https://stuffivelearned.org/doku.php?id=programming:python:py-sonic with the API 1.8.0 docs as well as a specific warning about mixing methods: https://stuffivelearned.org/doku.php?id=programming:python:py-sonic