MusicBrainz Database/Download
Products > Database > Database Download
Introduction
Please read the Database product page, and the Database Schema documentation for a description of the schema, if you are not familiar with the MusicBrainz Database.
Public Domain
The core data (artists, releases, tracks etc.) is available under the Public Domain license.
mbdump.tar.bz2 Core data (artists, albums, tracks etc.) You need only this dump to setup a working Test Server
mbdump-cdstubs.tar.bz2 CD stubs
Creative Commons
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 (mainly search indexes)
mbdump-moderation.tar.bz2 Edit data (editors, open edits/notes/votes, statistics)
mbdump-closedmoderation.tar.bz2 Closed edit data (closed edits/notes/votes)
mbdump-artistrelation.tar.bz2 Closed edit data (closed edits/notes/votes)
RDF export
The RDF export, mbdump.rdf.bz2 has gone for good. If you want a complete RDF export, please download the PostgreSQL database export (as described above), set up a MusicBrainz Server, then run mb_server/admin/RDFDump.pl
to produce an RDF export.
Get files from the primary FTP server
Older data files, and other miscellaneous files are available from the MusicBrainz FTP server
Installation
There are a few contributed guidelines how to setup the database on different systems. See Database Setup for the list of available documents. The easiest way to get a running database is to install a Virtual MusicBrainz Server.