How to get artist of music video in a .Net plugin

[pünktchen 671]

If i have a BaseItem that holds all the information of a MusicVideo, how do i get the Artist?

BaseItem doesn't have a property Artists and the People property only returns Actors, Directors and so on. Also a new Librarymanager ItemQuery with AppearsInItemIds = "Id of MusicVideo" doesn't work. So how do i get the Artist?

[PenkethBoy 1877]

Assuming the MV has an Artist assigned in the Metadata in Emby

 

Its not the same, but via the api i get Artist info returned as part of the json info for all MV's

 

e.g.

I have previously queried Emby for the $LibraryResult.Item($i).Id value

 

$MediaUrl = $embyServerUrl + "/emby/users/" + $User.User.Id + "/items?Recursive=true&ParentID="+ $LibraryResult.Item($i).Id + "&SortBy=Artists,SortName&SortOrder=Ascending&IncludeItemTypes=MusicVideo" + "&api_key=" + $User.AccessToken

 

Might give you a clue

[pünktchen 671]

Yes, i know it's working via json api. But the json api is probably doing multiple function calls in the background to return all properties with only one requests. The question is what are those background methods?

[PenkethBoy 1877]

Ah ok - i get what you mean now

[pünktchen 671]

@@Luke your help would be much appreciated.

[Luke 25409]

You could try this method on librarymanager

List<BaseItem> GetAllArtists(BaseItem item)

[pünktchen 671]

Thanks, i'll try that.

Edited March 3 by pünktchen

[pünktchen 671]

That works. Thank you again. I was just blind because of GetAllArtists