Music API not searching any data

[nisaar]

Hi All ....

 

I am new to php and i am droning over here ... We are starting a new online store and I am having a huge problem with my music API. What happens is that the api does a search ...I can vouch for that because I have a mailer that sends me a failed list ...@ this point everything cannot be found. My Dvd's working with the IMDB Api works perfectly and all the info gets stored to my MySql DB.

 

This is my code for the music

 

function GetMusicData($album, $artist, $id)

 

{

global $db;

 

$artist = str_replace(" ", "+", $artist);

$artist = strtolower($artist);

$album = str_replace(" ", "+", $album);

 

$url='http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/?method=album.getinfo&api_key=801bf08fc2c46659ad7878778edb72b3&artist='.$artist.'&album='.$album.'&autocorrect=1' ;

 

$ch = curl_init ($url);

  curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER,1);

$dt=curl_exec($ch);

curl_close ($ch);

 

                                            $data = new SimpleXmlElement($dt, LIBXML_NOCDATA);

$tracklist = NULL;

$x = (array)$data;

 

Any help would be much appreciated as I can't see why I am not able to get any information. I have just over 9000 entries in my DB of well known and not so well known artists but I can't find any information.                                           

[nisaar]

ok so I changed my API ... now i am getting another error " Error: Client does not accept gzip encoding." Below is my code:

 

Function GetMusicData($price, $album, $artist, $id)

{

global $db;

 

$artist_name = $db->get("select name from music limit 100");

$title = $db->get("select description_short from music limit 100");

$artist = str_replace(" ", "+", $artist);

$artist = strtolower($artist);

$album = str_replace(" ", "+", $album);

 

  $url='http://api.discogs.com/search?type=releases&q=-format:"promo"+format:"album"+format:"CD"+title:"$title"+artist:"$artist_name"~&f=xml' .$artist.'&album='.$album.'&autocorrect=1';

 

$ch = curl_init ($url);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER,  'Accept-Encoding: gzip');

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER,1);

curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_ENCODING, 'gzip, deflate');

$dt=curl_exec($ch);

curl_close ($ch);

 

              $data = new SimpleXmlElement($dt, LIBXML_NOCDATA);

$tracklist = NULL;

$x = (array)$data;