Indexed Search Syntax
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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.
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 |
