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Revision as of 18:52, 17 April 2012

Products > MusicBrainz Database

The MusicBrainz Database is built on the PostgreSQL relational database engine and contains all of MusicBrainz' music metadata. This data includes information about artists, release groups, releases, recordings, works, and labels, as well as the many relationships between them. The database also contains a full history of all the changes that the MusicBrainz community has made to the data.

Data overview

Core data

Artists
Name, sort name, IPI, aliases, type, begin and end dates, disambiguation comment, MBID
Release Groups
Title, artist credit, type, disambiguation comment, MBID
Releases
Title, artist credit, type, status, language, date, country, label, catalog number, barcode, medium(s), disc ID(s), ASIN, disambiguation comment, MBID
Mediums
Format, list of tracks (title, artist credit, duration)
Recordings
Title, artist credit, duration, ISRC, relationships, disambiguation comment, MBID
Works
Title, ISWC, relationships, disambiguation comment, MBID
Labels
Name, sort name, aliases, country, type, code, begin and end dates, disambiguation comment, MBID
Relationships & URLs
Relationships are a way to link the above entities together and allow MusicBrainz to capture most of the data contained in the liner notes of a CD.
CD Stubs
Title, artist, barcode, disc ID, disambiguation comment

Supplementary data

Supplementary data includes:

  • user submitted annotations and tags
  • derived statistics
  • search indexes
  • edit history
  • non-personal user data

Download

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The database is built on PostgreSQL and thus the data files provided are only suitable for importing to another PostgreSQL database. See the database schema documentation for a description of the schema.

License

Core data
The core data, as noted above, is placed into the Public Domain. This means that anyone can download and use the core data in any way they see fit. No restrictions, no worries!
Supplementary data
The supplementary data, as noted above, is released with a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. This allows for non-commercial use of the data as long as MusicBrainz is given credit and that derivative works (works based on MusicBrainz CC licensed data) are also made available under the same license.

All of our data is available for commercial licensing. If you are interested in licensing this data for commercial use, please contact us.

Live Data Feed

Consumers of our database may be interested in our replicated Live Data Feed. This feed operates in conjunction with the MusicBrainz Server software and enables a local database to automatically stay in sync with the main server.