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| country || the [http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/country_codes/iso-3166-1_decoding_table.htm two letter country code] for the artist country or 'unknown' |
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Revision as of 20:03, 1 August 2012
Search Fields
The artist index contains the following fields you can search:
Field | Description |
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arid | MBID of the artist |
artist | name of the artist |
artistaccent | name of the artist with any accent characters retained |
alias | the aliases/misspellings for the artist |
begin | artist birth date/band founding date |
comment | artist comment to differentiate similar artists |
country | the two letter country code for the artist country or 'unknown' |
end | artist death date/band dissolution date |
ended | true if know ended even if do not know end date |
gender | gender of the artist (“male”, “female”, “other”) |
ipi | IPI code for the artist |
sortname | artist sortname |
tag | a tag applied to the artist |
type | artist type (“person”, “group”, "other" or “unknown”) |
Artist search terms with no fields specified search the artist, sortname and alias fields.