getArtistInfo

Returns artist info.
Categories:

http://your-server/rest/getArtistInfo Since 1.11.0

Returns artist info with biography, image URLs and similar artists, using data from last.fm.

Parameters

Parameter Req. OpenS. Default Comment
id Yes The artist, album or song ID.
count No 20 Max number of similar artists to return.
includeNotPresent No false Whether to return artists that are not present in the media library.

Example

Result

A subsonic-response element with a nested artistInfo element on success.

{
  "subsonic-response": {
    "status": "ok",
    "version": "1.16.1",
    "type": "AwesomeServerName",
    "serverVersion": "0.1.3 (tag)",
    "openSubsonic": true,
    "artistInfo": {
      "biography": "Empty biography",
      "musicBrainzId": "1",
      "smallImageUrl": "http://localhost:8989/play/art/f20070e8e11611cc53542a38801d60fa/artist/2/thumb34.jpg",
      "mediumImageUrl": "http://localhost:8989/play/art/2b9b6c057cd4bf21089ce7572e7792b6/artist/2/thumb64.jpg",
      "largeImageUrl": "http://localhost:8989/play/art/e18287c23a75e263b64c31b3d64c1944/artist/2/thumb174.jpg"
    }
  }
}
{
  "subsonic-response": {
    "status": "ok",
    "version": "1.16.1",
    "artistInfo": {
      "biography": "Empty biography",
      "musicBrainzId": "1",
      "smallImageUrl": "http://localhost:8989/play/art/f20070e8e11611cc53542a38801d60fa/artist/2/thumb34.jpg",
      "mediumImageUrl": "http://localhost:8989/play/art/2b9b6c057cd4bf21089ce7572e7792b6/artist/2/thumb64.jpg",
      "largeImageUrl": "http://localhost:8989/play/art/e18287c23a75e263b64c31b3d64c1944/artist/2/thumb174.jpg"
    }
  }
}
Field Type Req. OpenS. Details
artistInfo artistInfo Yes The album info
Last modified December 16, 2024: Make old endpoints consistent with OG Subsonic, various bugfixes (#119) (a080a53)