MusicBrainz Database/Download

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Introduction

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

Installation

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

• manually setup a database,
• or download a pre-configured virtual image of the server.

Download

The data can be downloaded from http://ftp.musicbrainz.org/pub/musicbrainz/data/fullexport/ The license and contents of each file is described below.

Public Domain

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

mbdump.tar.bz2

Core data (artists, albums, tracks 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

Creative Commons

File:cc-nc-sa-2.0-88x31.png The edits, editors (non-personal data only), and derived data is available under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license.

mbdump-derived.tar.bz2

Derived data (annotations, tags, search indexes)

mbdump-edit.tar.bz2

Edit data (open and closed edits, edit notes, votes, auto-editor elections)

mbdump-editor.tar.bz2

Editor data (editors)

mbdump-stats.tar.bz2

Statistics