Melon

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(Note: I don't have any use for this provider, I just looked into it since it was mentioned in #5)

Example album: https://www.melon.com/album/detail.htm?albumId=12402595

API

Like #202, I dug this out of the mobile app.

When loading a release, the app makes 3 requests:

• https://m2.melon.com/m6/v1/album/contents/list.json?albumId=12402595
• https://m2.melon.com/m6/v3/album/info.json?albumId=12402595
• https://m2.melon.com/m6/v2/album/song/list.json?albumId=12402595

album/contents/list.json

This probably isn't useful, it just lists any music videos and articles related to the release.

album/info.json

AFAICT, SELLCNPY is the distributor and PLANCNPY is the label.

For the ALBUMTYPE field, the values I've seen are:

• 싱글 (Single)
• EP
• OST
• 리믹스 (Remix)
  • I haven't seen a remix album, so maybe this is always Single + Remix?
• 정규 (Regular)
• 옴니버스 (Compilation)

Cover art

The original image can be derived from the ALBUMIMG or ALBUMIMGLARGE field. Borrowed from https://github.com/qsniyg/maxurl/blob/master/src/userscript.ts:

const albumImgLarge = "https://cdnimg.melon.co.kr/cm2/album/images/124/02/595/12402595_20251121154956_1000.jpg?4dfce9df1f0761eb689cb1e82a2e01df";

const originalImg = albumImgLarge.replace(/(images\/.*\/[^/_]*)((_[^/.]*)_)?(_?[^/._]*)?(\.[^/.?]*)(?:[?/].*)?$/, "$1$3_org$5");

From my (limited) testing, the original covers are usually 2000x2000.

album/song/list.json

Only notable thing is that it provides a list of genres, but at least in the case of the example release, most of the entries aren't actually genres? Seems to just be a dumping ground of tags. The release-level genre tags don't seem to have that problem.