Adding a release/album to an existing artist

[davemacrae]

I've successfully copied it and can use your concepts to add a new artist into Lidarr with it successfully pulling in an artists back catalogue.

However, the issue comes when trying to use the same method to add an album to an artist that already exists. Lidarr barfs on that.

Are you aware of what API call is required just to add a particular release or release group to an existing artist?

Many Thanks

Dave

[guydavis]

Hi Dave, thanks for the interest. It's been a while since I was in this code, but I seem to remember that I also was unable to use the add_album function. I believe this actually attempts to create an Album entry in Lidarr when really, Lidarr should already know all the albums of the artist, downloaded from the databases online.

Instead, I think I call album_match which does it's best to loosely match an album name string from input against the list of albums that Lidarr reports for the artist. If found, I then call monitor_album to have it flagged for searching.

Hope this helps,
Guy

[davemacrae]

Thanks Guy,

I'll try that out.