Indexed Search Syntax

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.

Example searches

Artist:

• tori amos - search artist, sortname and alias fiels
• comment:electronic -- search for the word electronic in artust comment fields

TOOD: add more here!

MusicBrainz specific search fields

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

Artist search terms with no fields specified search the artist, sortname and alias fields.

The release/album index contains theses fields:

field	Description
reid	release id
release	release name
arid	artist id
artist	artist 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

Album search tears with no fields search the release field only.

And track searches can contain:

field	Description
trid	track id
track	track name
arid	artist id
artist	artist name
reid	release id
release	release name
type	release type (1 - album, 2 - single, etc.)
tracks	number of tracks in the release
dur	duration of track in milliseconds
qdur	quantized duration (duration / 2000)
tnum	track number

Track search terms with no fields search the track field only.