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MusicBrainz Identifiers

MusicBrainz Identifiers are URIs which represent an object in the MusicBrainz database. Many MusicBrainz Identifiers contain UUIDs.

Types of MusicBrainz ID

  • ArtistID ( http://musicbrainz.org/artist/<UUID> )
  • ReleaseID ( http://musicbrainz.org/release/<UUID> )
  • TrackID ( http://musicbrainz.org/track/<UUID> )
  • LabelID ( http://musicbrainz.org/label/<UUID> )
  • DiscID ( http://musicbrainz.org/discid/<discid> )
  • PUID

Special UUIDs

There are a number of Universally Unique Identifiers that have a special meaning.

UUID UUID Type UUID Meaning
89ad4ac3-39f7-470e-963a-56509c546377 ArtistID Various Artists
1c6c63fb-f9af-4669-92c5-a1594671766a ArtistID Artist not in MusicBrainz database (and never will be)

Discussion

This page has a BadWikiName, I suggest that it be merged with/redirected to MusicBrainzIdentifier. -- MartinRudat 22:08, 26 July 2006 (UTC)