Andy Hawkins says:
In conjunction with Lukas I’ve been working on a complete rewrite of libmusicbrainz to support the new Web Service v2 released alongside NGS. I’m happy to announce the official release of this new library (libmusicbrainz4).
The library is written as a relatively simple parser for the results from the Web Service, with as little logic as possible. This should mean it is easy to maintain to keep in step with any changes in the schema for the XML Web Service.
The main interface is a C++ class ‘CQuery’, that returns a Metadata object containing a parsed version of the response. There is also a C interface that loosely wraps the C++ classes.
Using the library requires a good understanding of the queries and responses to and from the Web Service. Download the library, or browse the online documentation or generate the documentation from the source with make docs.
If you find any issues, please report them using JIRA (under the project ‘libmusicbrainz’).
I will follow the musicbrainz-devel mailing list and the #musicbrainz-devel IRC channel on freenode in order to answer questions if at all possible.
Thanks.
Andy
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