# More tools to search for artist info?

**URL:** <https://community.mp3tag.de/t/more-tools-to-search-for-artist-info/61164>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [June 2, 2023, 12:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/more-tools-to-search-for-artist-info/61164 "2023-06-02T12:00:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![ragtag](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ragtag/32/13146_2.png) [@ragtag](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ragtag)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 12:00pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/more-tools-to-search-for-artist-info/61164/1 "2023-06-02T12:00:30Z")

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Hello Everyone,

Please show me how to contruct a search string similar to what follows, which I had found here for [allmusic](https://www.allmusic.com/), with which to locate the artist info:

`https://www.allmusic.com/search/artist/$replace(%artist%, ,+)`

The search queries required, should apply to these two sources:

[discogs](https://www.discogs.com/) & [musicbrainz](https://musicbrainz.org/)

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c6cbf5/32.png) [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 1:47pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/more-tools-to-search-for-artist-info/61164/2 "2023-06-02T13:47:31Z")

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Discogs:  
`https://www.discogs.com/search/?q=%artist%&type=artist`

MusicBrainz:  
`https://musicbrainz.org/search?query=%artist%&type=artist`

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**Author:** ![ragtag](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ragtag/32/13146_2.png) [@ragtag](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ragtag)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2023, 3:25pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/more-tools-to-search-for-artist-info/61164/3 "2023-06-02T15:25:20Z")

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Thank you very much, @LyricsLover.

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**Author:** ![ragtag](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ragtag/32/13146_2.png) [@ragtag](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ragtag)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2023, 9:46am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/more-tools-to-search-for-artist-info/61164/4 "2023-06-04T09:46:44Z")

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> Discogs:  
> `https://www.discogs.com/search/?q=%artist%&type=artist`
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> MusicBrainz:  
> `https://musicbrainz.org/search?query=%artist%&type=artist`

@LyricsLover: If I may, I would like to revisit your two proposals, as I was only able to test them for the first time, today:

Pending further applications, the first artist I searched for, was "Mary Duff". Both sources returned for this query the artist's name only, i.e. excluding their surname. Can this search tool be further refined to take care of such instances?

_These are the two respective landing pages for the "Mary Duff" search:_

[Search - MusicBrainz](https://musicbrainz.org/search?query=Mary "Search - MusicBrainz")

[Mary music | Discogs](https://www.discogs.com/search/?q=Mary "Mary music | Discogs")

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c6cbf5/32.png) [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2023, 9:49am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/more-tools-to-search-for-artist-info/61164/5 "2023-06-04T09:49:48Z")

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You can try it with:  
Discogs:  
`https://www.discogs.com/search/?q="%artist%"&type=artist`

MusicBrainz:  
`https://musicbrainz.org/search?query="%artist%"&type=artist`

or you can do the same as for your initial allmusic query and replace a space in the ARTIST tag with + character for the search query:  
`https://www.discogs.com/search/?q=$replace(%artist%, ,+)&type=artist`  
`https://musicbrainz.org/search?query=$replace(%artist%, ,+)&type=artist`

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**Author:** ![ragtag](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/ragtag/32/13146_2.png) [@ragtag](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/ragtag)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2023, 10:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/more-tools-to-search-for-artist-info/61164/6 "2023-06-04T10:39:13Z")

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> [@LyricsLover](#):
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> `https://www.discogs.com/search/?q=$replace(%artist%, ,+)&type=artist`  
> `https://musicbrainz.org/search?query=$replace(%artist%, ,+)&type=artist`

Thank you, @LyricsLover, these are the two that I was aiming for.

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**Author:** ![system](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/c/ce7035d426cb755a7916793326d23b465222a407.png) [@system](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2023, 10:39am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/more-tools-to-search-for-artist-info/61164/7 "2023-07-04T10:39:47Z")

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