[API Request] getAlbumInfo

[sentriz]

Type of change

API extension

Proposal description

i propose a getAlbumInfo, akin to getArtistInfo

most servers base getArtistInfo on lastfm's artist.getInfo call
getAlbumInfo is a natural extention of that using lastfm's album.getInfo

take for example how nice an artist page can look on an artist page with airsonic-refix:

now take an album page as an example:

it looks quite bare in comparison

if we add getAlbumInfo, we could really add a lot of interesting bits to album pages like we have for artists like

• wiki
• playcounts
• listeners
• musicbrainz link
• top tracks

the resposne format could be the same getArtistInfo, for example (taking getArtistInfo for reference)

also pinging @tamland, to see what you think of the idea 😁

Backward compatibility impact

No response

Backward compatibility

• No backward compatibility impact.

API details

GET /rest/getAlbumInfo.view?id=<album id>

{
  "subsonic-response": {
    "status": "ok",
    "version": "1.16.1",
    "type": "AwesomeServerName",
    "serverVersion": "0.1.3 (tag)",
    "openSubsonic": true
    "albumInfo": {
        "wiki": "abc abc abc abc abc abc abc",
        "musicBrainzId": "abc",
    }
  }
}

Security impacts

n/a

Potential issues

it's no different to getArtistInfo as far as I can see

Alternative solutions

No response

[dweymouth]

Uhh.. how is this different from http://www.subsonic.org/pages/api.jsp#getAlbumInfo2? Of course we can extend the payload returned by this if we want to

[sentriz]

haha that's hilarious, no idea how I missed that. thanks !