wolffd@0: function [tags, tag_weight] = fm_retrieve_artist_tags(artist_name,bymbid)
wolffd@0: %[tags, tag_weight] = fm_get_artist_tags(artist_name,bymbid)
wolffd@0: % 
wolffd@0: % artist_name: either artist name string, or
wolffd@0: %              musicbrainz artist id with bymbid == 1
wolffd@0: % 
wolffd@0: % returns last.fm artist tags and tag weights for given artist
wolffd@0: % this uses a lastpy python script to handle the REST data exchange
wolffd@0: 
wolffd@0: if nargin < 2
wolffd@0:     bymbid = '0';
wolffd@0: else
wolffd@0:     bymbid = num2str(bymbid); 
wolffd@0: end
wolffd@0: 
wolffd@0: % call python function
wolffd@0: tagstr = python('fm_retrieve_artist_tags.py',artist_name,bymbid);
wolffd@0: 
wolffd@0: % parse text function output
wolffd@0: tags = textscan(tagstr,'%s %d','Delimiter',',');
wolffd@0: tag_weight = tags{2};
wolffd@0: tags = tags{1};