MusicBrainz Database/Download

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Introduction

Please read the MusicBrainz Database product page and the database schema documentation if you are not familiar with the MusicBrainz Database.

Installation

There are a two different methods to get database up and running, you can either:

• manually setup a database,
• or download a pre-configured virtual image of the server.

Download

Note: The links below currently do not work. You can find the relevant files at http://ftp.musicbrainz.org/pub/musicbrainz/data/fullexport/

Public Domain

The core data (artists, releases, tracks etc.) is released into the public domain.

mbdump.tar.bz2 Core data (artists, albums, tracks etc.) If you are setting up a test server, this is the only dump you will need to get started.

mbdump-cdstubs.tar.bz2 CD stubs

Creative Commons

File:cc-nc-sa-2.0-88x31.png The edits, editors (non-personal data only), and derived data is available under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license.

mbdump-derived.tar.bz2 Derived data (annotations, tags, search indexes)

mbdump-edit.tar.bz2 Edit data (open and closed edits, edit notes, votes, auto-editor elections)

mbdump-editor.tar.bz2 Editor data (editors)

mbdump-stats.tar.bz2 Statistics