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Discussion

How does this web service deal with special characters? For example Mýa or Adèle. I have tried both URLEncoding and XMLEncoding but without any luck.
When using ?name=... it says it retrieves resources with a matching name (or title). What kind of "matching"?
How exactly does ?duration=... work - does it support range or fuzzy matching for example?
If multiple filter arguments are given, how do they combine? Is it allowed to repeat a filter argument (e.g. ?artist=X&artist=Y) ?
AFAICT nowhere does it say what exactly all the ?inc options do. I can guess most of them, in a vague sort of way, but for example is ?inc=artist-rel artist releases or artist relationships (or something else)? If these have already been defined, then a pointer to that definition would be helpful.
Are there any plans on adding release lookup by EAN / UPC code? Would be a very nice feature for media libraries to get more information about audio CDs. --BrainDamaged
- See for example http://musicbrainz.org/ws/1/release/?type=xml&query=barcode:5016025611720 -- LukasLalinsky 13:17, 06 July 2007 (UTC)

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+* How does this web service deal with special characters?  For example Mýa or Adèle.  I have tried both URLEncoding and XMLEncoding but without any luck.
 * When using <code><nowiki>?name=...</nowiki></code> it says it retrieves resources with a matching name (or title).  What kind of "matching"?
 * How exactly does <code><nowiki>?duration=...</nowiki></code> work - does it support range or fuzzy matching for example?