MusicBrainz Database/Download
Products > MusicBrainz Database > Database Download
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
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 (mainly search indexes)
- mbdump-moderation.tar.bz2 Edit data (editors, open edits/notes/votes, statistics)
- mbdump-closedmoderation.tar.bz2 Closed edit data (closed edits/notes/votes)
- mbdump-artistrelation.tar.bz2 Closed edit data (closed edits/notes/votes)
RDF export
The RDF export, mbdump.rdf.bz2, is no longer available. If you want a complete RDF export, please download the PostgreSQL database export (as described above), set up a MusicBrainz Server, then run mb_server/admin/RDFDump.pl to produce an RDF export.
