Gracenote (GNSDK for mobile) missing artist's name

Question

i'm using Gracenote (GNSDK for mobile) to identify songs through smartphone microphones.

So far it is working well, but most of the times the results don't contain the artist's name.

Only sometimes the name is present in track().artist().name().display().

Does Gracenote not have that information? Am i not allowed to access it?

Answer 1

I figured it out after a while.

I had to use the album.artist().name().display() instead of track().artist().name().display().

It seems the track-artist's name is only present if it differs from the album artist's name.