Similar Artists Radio + ReST API

[herbman]

First of all, I *LOVE* the similar artists radio feature. For a large library, it's like a Pandora for your own music! Lovely.

My question: Does/Will the ReST API support this feature? I would imagine the mechanics would be similar to the getRandomSongs call..

I know iSub is not in current development, but if the API supported this, it would be the kind of thing I would love to see in a phone client.

[acroyear]

The API has similar artists (it is part of the getArtistInfo call results) as well as getSimilarSongs. Both API calls have ID3 and 'traditional' options.

The Web UI has a "start radio" link at the bottom that allows one to do what you are asking for - generate a play queue from the similar artists list. I've been considering building something like that in a future release of SubFire (yeah, not available for IOS except as a Safari browser bookmark), but other things come first.

Joe