Frequently Asked Questions

This is a set of FAQs (with answers :-)) that are maintained by the MusicBrainz community. Chances are, that if you have a question on how to use MusicBrainz, you will find the answer here. If you do not, please ask us via the Users Mailing List.

• When you have gotten an answer, it would be nice if you added the question and answer to the appropriate FAQ in the wiki (if you feel comfortable with wikis).

The following FAQs are available:

• General FAQ
  • General questions about MusicBrainz.
• Account FAQ
  • Questions relating to your MusicBrainz account.
• Editing FAQ
  • About editing the database.
• Voting FAQ
  • About the voting process.
• Classic Tagger FAQ
  • About the old Windows Classic Tagger (MusicBrainz Tagger 0.10.5).
• Picard FAQ
  • About the Picard Tagger.
• Classical Music FAQ
  • About classical music.
• Misencoding FAQ
  • About fixing misencoded entries for artists, releases and tracks.
• Annotation FAQ
  • About Artist Annotations, Release Annotations and Track Annotations.