How to Create an Account
Before you can start editing MusicBrainz, you must create an account. First of all, click Create Account on the upper right corner of the site.
This will take you to a page with a simple form:
Just enter your desired username and password, and an email address. The mail will be used to send you any notes and comments about your edits, so please choose an address that you will actually check! As the account creation page says, taking a look at the Code of Conduct before starting editing is recommended. Once you press the Create Account button, you'll be sent a verification mail:
Just click on the link to verify your account (if you don't get this mail, and it is not in your spam folder either, mail to us at support@musicbrainz.org and we'll try to find out what went wrong)
If you check your profile page now, you'll see that you have a verified mail (don't worry, the address is only shown to you unless you decide to change that) and that you're a "Limited User":
That means that for a while (until two weeks pass and you have 10 accepted edits) you won't be able to do a few things, like adding standalone recordings, voting and leaving edit notes on other people's edits (you will already be able to do so for your own, and you should do so! See How to Write Edit Notes). But most of the potential of MusicBrainz will be open for you from the start.
Remember that what you have just created is not an artist page, but an user profile. For adding an actual artist to MusicBrainz, go ahead and check How to Add an Artist! For other basic ways of contributing new data, see How to Add Relationships and How to Add a Release - or check any of the other how-to links from the navigation box.
How-To Pages | |
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Introductory Guides | Beginners' Guide · Creating an Account · Editing · Voting · Writing Edit Notes |
Basic How-Tos | Adding an Artist · Adding Relationships · Using the Relationship Editor · Using Artist Credits · Adding a Release · Works · Events · Places · Series · Instruments · Areas |
Specific How-Tos | Merging Releases · Merging Recordings · Removing Entities · Adding Cover Art · Identifying Labels · Splitting Artists · Adding Standalone Recordings · Adding Disc IDs · Cancelling Edits · Searching for Edits · Reporting a User · Reporting an Issue · Working with AcoustIDs · Tagging Files with Picard |