MusicBrainz Documentation
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User Documentation
- Frequently Asked Questions
- A set of community maintained FAQs.
- How Tos
- A collection of tutorials. Lightweight, short and user-orientated step by step instructions.
- How Editing Works and the different Edit Types
- A general introduction and detailed descriptions of each type of edit that you can possibly make to MusicBrainz data.
- Advanced Relationships
- The Advanced Relationships documentation and the list of Advanced Relationship Types.
- Advanced Search
- Describes the server-based search (also used by the MusicBrainz Tagger).
- MusicBrainz Terminology
- A collection of all terms the MusicBrainz community uses, what they mean, and wheter there is a wiki page explaining them.
- Release Language
- Describes the assignement of the language and script attribute to releases.
- Picard Documentation
- Documentation of MusicBrainz Picard, MusicBrainz' official tagger.
- How Annotations Work
- A rudimentary page that explains the Artist Annotation and Release Annotation.
- How Voting Works
- Also quite rudimentary. It explains the decision mechanism of the ModBot.
- Editor Privacy
- Privacy implications of being a MusicBrainz editor.
- Text Search Syntax
- How to use the powerful text search features in MusicBrainz
- Flickr Machine Tag
- How to use flickr tags to refer to MusicBrainz artists, releases, tracks or labels.
Developer Documentation
Software
- Client HOWTO
- Describes the use of libmusicbrainz, and the Client Examples programs.
Discs
- Disc Submission
- An overview of the highly technical content of Disc ID Calculation. (from cd_submission.html and disc.html)
Tagging
- ID3v2.4.0
- Useful links for people wanting to use ID3v2 tags in applications.
- ID3v2 Tags
- A list of some TXXX tags for ID3v2 to toss about and try to "standardize".
- Disc IDs and Tagging
- A short exposé on various tagging standards and their handling of DiscIDs.
- MusicBrainz Tag
- Standardization for MusicBrainz-specific tags. (from metadata_tags.html)
- MusicBrainz Identifier
- As used in standardized MusicBrainzTags. (from id-intro.html)
Server
- Auto-Insert From FreeDB
- Explains how data is automatically entered as FreeDBModerations .
- Server Access Paths
- Explains the various "fixed" ways into the MusicBrainz Server.
- Release Editor Arguments
- Explains the arguments to pre-populate the fields in the release editor.
Various bug reports and feature pages:
Database
- MusicBrainz Database
- Start page for documentation about the database.
- Panther DB Installation
- Steps to intall PostgreSQL and import MusicBrainz data on Mac OS X 10.3 aka Panther.
- Debian VMWare Database
- HOWTO install the database under Debian running under VMWare.
Other Documentation
- Japanese documentation for MusicBrainz Metadata Initiative 2.1
- Other Databases -- Other music databases which we might try to work with
- Links To Free Creative Commons License Music
- MusicBrainz Summits