Indexed Search Syntax: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 03:37, 25 February 2006

Status: Currently under development. Please help copy and adapt the lucene query syntax docs to our needs!

While we contruct this help page, please see the lucene query syntax page for details on how to construct MusicBrainz text search queries.

The artist index contains the following fields you can search:

field	Description
arid	artist id
artist	artist name
sortname	artist sortname
artype	artist type (0 - unknown, 1 - person, 2 - band)
begin	artist birth date/band founding date
end	artist death date/band dissoluion date
comment	artist comment to differentiate similar artists
alias	the aliases/misspellings for this artist

The release/album index contains theses fields:

field	Description
reid	release id
release	release name
type	release type (1 - album, 2 - single, etc.)
status	release status (1 - official, 2 - promo, 3 - bootleg)
tracks	number of tracks in the release
discids	number of cd ids for the release
date	earliest release date for the release
asin	the Amazon ASIN for
lang	The language for this release (TODO: add lang #s)
script	The script used this release

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