MusicBrainz Identifier

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MusicBrainz aims to be a comprehensive music database that will allow people and computers to have meaningful conversations about music. In order to facilitate these meaningful conversations, Music­Brainz needs to identify each artist, album, label and track with a unique identifier.

All IDs in Music­Brainz are UUIDs. For example: 95807106-af9f-417d-b1d0-d287c5504ec1

• Artist IDs:
  • These are unique IDs used to identify an artist. The absolute URI takes the form http://musicbrainz.org/artist/<UUID>
• Label IDs:
  • These are unique IDs used to identify a label. The absolute URI takes the form http://musicbrainz.org/label/<UUID>
• Release IDs:
  • These are unique IDs used to identify a release. The absolute URI takes the form http://musicbrainz.org/release/<UUID>
• Track IDs:
  • These are unique IDs used to identify a track. The absolute URI takes the form http://musicbrainz.org/track/<UUID>

These IDs are also stored in tags in music files by the MusicBrainz Tagger applications. See MusicBrainz Tag for more detailed information.

[edit] Special Identifiers

There are some special identifiers used by MusicBrainz.

• 89ad4ac3-39f7-470e-963a-56509c546377 is an artist ID used to represent various artists
• 1c6c63fb-f9af-4669-92c5-a1594671766a is an artist ID used to represent an artist not in the MusicBrainz database.

[edit] Other Identifiers used by MusicBrainz

• Disc ID:
  • An ID calculated from the TOC of a CD.
• PUID:
  • The IDs used in the proprietary MusicDNS audio fingerprinting system operated by MusicIP.
• TRM:
  • These IDs were used for the old Relatable audio fingerprinting system. These IDs are no longer used.

Categories: To Be Reviewed | Documentation | Identifier