Searching for Artist does not work for me, no artist or album names appear.
Fetching a specific release by its id or URL works though...
Edit: tried both 1.28 and 1.22 and none of them work
Update to 1.29
I got the same problem with 1.29 and 1.1.7.
Searching for an artist (http://api.discogs.com/search?type=artists&q=%artist% )does not actually get me a release list, only artist info:
GET /search?type=artists&q=Manu%20Chao HTTP/1.1
Host: api.discogs.com
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Accept: application/xml
User-Agent: foobar2000/1.1.7
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 3785
Reproxy-Status: yes
Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
Set-Cookie: sid=397ac6e874b97af7e7c8a11b9dfd8828; path=/; domain=.discogs.com; expires=Thu, 24-Jun-2021 19:12:44 GMT
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:12:44 GMT
Server: lighttpd
Connection: close
<resp stat="ok" version="2.0"><exactresults><result num="1" type="artist"><title>Manu Chao</title><uri>http://www.discogs.com/artist/Manu+Chao</uri><thumb>http://s.dsimg.com/image/A-50-30773-1224747393.jpeg</thumb></result></exactresults><searchresults end="20" numResults="10" start="1"><result num="1" type="artist"><title>Antoine Chao</title><uri>http://www.discogs.com/artist/Antoine+Chao</uri><summary>Antoine Chao Antoine Chao French musician, producer and radio reporter, born in 1963. Brother of [a=Manu ... Chao] and founding member of Mano Negra. </summary></result><result num="2" type="artist"><title>Manu Chao</title><uri>http://www.discogs.com/artist/Manu+Chao</uri><summary>Manu Chao José-Manuel Thomas Arthur Chao Ortega French singer/songwriter, born June 21st 1961 in</summary><thumb>http://s.dsimg.com/image/A-50-30773-1224747393.jpeg</thumb></result><result num="3" type="artist"><title>Santiago Casariego</title><uri>http://www.discogs.com/artist/Santiago+Casariego</uri><summary>Santiago Casariego Santiago "Santi" Casariego French drum player, cousin of [a=Manu Chao]. Since</summary></result><result num="4" type="artist"><title>Angelo Mancini</title><uri>http://www.discogs.com/artist/Angelo+Mancini</uri><summary> musician [a=Manu Chao]. Also used to play the trumpet in band [i]Desechos[/i] (Madrid, Spain). </summary></result><result num="5" type="artist"><title>Lyricson</title><uri>http://www.discogs.com/artist/Lyricson</uri><summary>") with Manu Chao's "Radio Bemba Sound System". </summary><thumb>http://s.dsimg.com/image/A-50-374617-1153828644.jpeg</thumb></result><result num="6" type="artist"><title>Fermin Muguruza</title><uri>http://www.discogs.com/artist/Fermin+Muguruza</uri><summary> international artists such as [url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/Manu+Chao]Manu Chao[/url], [url=http://www.discogs.com/artist%20...%20%20%5burl=http://www.discogs.com/artist/I%C3%B1igo+Muguruza]Iñigo Muguruza[/url] and [url=http://www.discogs.com/artist ... . He began his musical career by founding, along with his brother Iñigo and [url=http://www.discogs.com/artist</summary><thumb>http://s.dsimg.com/image/A-50-169849-1126734064.jpeg</thumb></result><result num="7" type="artist"><title>Tony "Face" Bacciocchi</title><uri>http://www.discogs.com/artist/Tony+%22Face%22+Bacciocchi</uri><summary> many gigs all over Italy and Europe , London included , supporting James Taylor Quartet , Manu Chao ... international artists like Manu Chao, Marc Ribot, Koop, Ivano Fossati, Kocani Orchestra, Solarflares, Moment</summary><thumb>http://s.dsimg.com/image/A-50-633716-1238228572.jpeg</thumb></result><result num="8" type="artist"><title>Peppe Barra</title><uri>http://www.discogs.com/artist/Peppe+Barra</uri><summary>’. Within his countless famous fans we can mention Manu Chao and Roberto Benigni (‘Oscar Prize’ in 2001 for</summary><thumb>http://s.dsimg.com/image/A-50-130112-1307982302.jpeg</thumb></result><result num="9" type="artist"><title>Jane Birkin</title><uri>http://www.discogs.com/artist/Jane+Birkin</uri><summary> collaborations with artists as diverse as [a=Bryan Ferry], [a=Caetano Veloso], [a=Feist], [a=Brian Molko], [a=Manu ... Chao] or [a=Mickey 3D] on 2004 "Rendez-Vous", followed by further collaborations with [a=Gonzales], [a</summary><thumb>http://s.dsimg.com/image/A-50-90539-1239635620.jpeg</thumb></result><result num="10" type="artist"><title>Demon</title><uri>http://www.discogs.com/artist/Demon</uri><summary> Europe Awards for the "Best French Act", next to artists such as [a=Manu Chao] and [a=Daft Punk]. The ... considered as one of the best artist of the "french touch" movement. Filled with melodic, groundbreaking</summary><thumb>http://s.dsimg.com/image/A-50-1091-1227978882.jpeg</thumb></result></searchresults></resp>
From there there should be a second request for the first artist I think (http://api.discogs.com/artist/Manu+Chao?releases=1) but for me it just stops there.
If I put a local proxy (Fiddler) between foobar and api.discogs.com the second request gets sent. Could it be a local problem?