public bool FindAlbuminfo(string strAlbum, string artistName, int releaseYear)
{
_albumList.Clear();
// strAlbum="1999";//escapolygy";
// make request
// type is
// http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?P=amg&SQL=escapolygy&OPT1=2
HTMLUtil util = new HTMLUtil();
string postData = String.Format("P=amg&SQL={0}&OPT1=2", HttpUtility.UrlEncode(strAlbum));
string html = PostHTTP("http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll", postData);
if (html.Length == 0)
{
return(false);
}
// check if this is an album
MusicAlbumInfo newAlbum = new MusicAlbumInfo();
newAlbum.AlbumURL = "http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?" + postData;
if (newAlbum.Parse(html))
{
_albumList.Add(newAlbum);
return(true);
}
string htmlLow = html;
htmlLow = htmlLow.ToLower();
int startOfTable = htmlLow.IndexOf("id=\"expansiontable1\"");
if (startOfTable < 0)
{
return(false);
}
startOfTable = htmlLow.LastIndexOf("<table", startOfTable);
if (startOfTable < 0)
{
return(false);
}
HTMLTable table = new HTMLTable();
string strTable = html.Substring(startOfTable);
table.Parse(strTable);
for (int i = 1; i < table.Rows; ++i)
{
HTMLTable.HTMLRow row = table.GetRow(i);
string albumName = "";
string albumUrl = "";
string nameOfAlbum = "";
string nameOfArtist = "";
for (int iCol = 0; iCol < row.Columns; ++iCol)
{
string column = row.GetColumValue(iCol);
if (iCol == 1 && (column.Length != 0))
{
albumName = "(" + column + ")";
}
if (iCol == 2)
{
nameOfArtist = column;
util.RemoveTags(ref nameOfArtist);
if (!column.Equals(" "))
{
albumName = String.Format("- {0} {1}", nameOfArtist, albumName);
}
}
if (iCol == 4)
{
string tempAlbum = column;
util.RemoveTags(ref tempAlbum);
albumName = String.Format("{0} {1}", tempAlbum, albumName);
nameOfAlbum = tempAlbum;
}
if (iCol == 4 && column.IndexOf("<a href=\"") >= 0)
{
int pos1 = column.IndexOf("<a href=\"");
pos1 += +"<a href=\"".Length;
int iPos2 = column.IndexOf("\">", pos1);
if (iPos2 >= 0)
{
if (nameOfAlbum.Length == 0)
{
nameOfAlbum = albumName;
}
// full album url:
// http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:66jieal64xs7
string url = column.Substring(pos1, iPos2 - pos1);
string albumNameStripped;
albumUrl = String.Format("http://www.allmusic.com{0}", url);
MusicAlbumInfo newAlbumInfo = new MusicAlbumInfo();
util.ConvertHTMLToAnsi(albumName, out albumNameStripped);
newAlbumInfo.Title2 = albumNameStripped;
newAlbumInfo.AlbumURL = util.ConvertHTMLToAnsi(albumUrl);
newAlbumInfo.Artist = util.ConvertHTMLToAnsi(nameOfArtist);
newAlbumInfo.Title = util.ConvertHTMLToAnsi(nameOfAlbum);
_albumList.Add(newAlbumInfo);
}
}
}
}
// now sort
_albumList.Sort(new AlbumSort(strAlbum, artistName, releaseYear));
return(true);
}