MusicBrainz Database/Download: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 02:26, 15 April 2012

Please read the MusicBrainz Database product page and the database schema documentation if you are not familiar with the MusicBrainz Database.

There are a two different methods to get a local database up and running, you can either:

If you are interested in keeping the data in sync with MusicBrainz using our live data feed, you can either:

Enable replication in the pre-configured virtual image,
Use an alternative PostgreSQL setup using mbslave that includes replication without the rest of MusicBrainz Server, or
Use an alternative MySQL setup using mbzdb that includes replication without the rest of MusicBrainz Server

The license and contents of each file is described below.

The core data (artists, releases, recordings, etc.) is released into the public domain.

File:cc-nc-sa-2.0-88x31.png Derived data (annotations, tags, search indexes) along with a complete edit history and non-personal user data is available under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license.

mbdump-derived.tar.bz2: Derived data
mbdump-edit.tar.bz2: Edit history (open and closed edits, edit notes, votes, auto-editor elections)
mbdump-editor.tar.bz2: Non-personal user data
mbdump-stats.tar.bz2: Statistics

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 The data dumps are available for downloaded at http://ftp.musicbrainz.org/pub/musicbrainz/data/fullexport/.
+== License ==
 The license and contents of each file is described below.
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 ; mbdump.tar.bz2
+: Core data
-: Core data (artists, albums, recordings, etc.) ''If you are setting up a test server, this is the only dump you will need to get started.''
 ; mbdump-cdstubs.tar.bz2
-: CD stubs
+: [[CD Stub|CD stubs]]
 ===Creative Commons===
-[[Image:cc-nc-sa-2.0-88x31.png]] Derived data along with a complete edit history and non-personal user data is available under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0] license.
+[[Image:cc-nc-sa-2.0-88x31.png]] Derived data (annotations, tags, search indexes) along with a complete edit history and non-personal user data is available under the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/ Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0] license.
 ; mbdump-derived.tar.bz2
-: Derived data (annotations, tags, search indexes)
+: Derived data
 ; mbdump-edit.tar.bz2
-: Edit data (open and closed edits, edit notes, votes, auto-editor elections)
+: Edit history (open and closed edits, edit notes, votes, auto-editor elections)
 ; mbdump-editor.tar.bz2
+: Non-personal user data
-: Editor data (editors)
 ; mbdump-stats.tar.bz2
 : Statistics