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The Yahoo! Music API is an HTTP REST interface, generally of the form:
http://[locale].music.yahooapis.com/[service]/v1/[resource]
There are some important concepts to get yourself acquainted with:
item: A singular music asset, such as an artist, category, release, track, or video. /item services typically return information about one or more asset(s), given their ID(s). Example:
list: A list of music assets. This can be an auto-generated list such as a Top 100 chart, a user-specific list such as Recommendations and Recently Played, or an editorially chosen list. Example:
YMID: A Yahoo! Music User ID. Needed for personalized calls, such as ratings and favorites. Get the current logged-in YMID by calling: