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, is no longer available. 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 different methods to setup the database, see Database Setup for a list of guides.