MusicBrainz Documentation
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User documentation
- Frequently Asked Questions
- A set of community maintained FAQs.
For the web interface
- About MusicBrainz and Beginners Guide
- A quick introduction to MusicBrainz and to its use, respectively.
- How Tos
- A collection of tutorials. Lightweight, short and user-orientated step by step instructions.
- Introduction to Editing
- A quick introduction to how changes to MusicBrainz data are made.
- Introduction to Voting
- A quick introduction to MusicBrainz's voting system and how edits are applied (or rejected).
- Style guidelines
- All our official guidelines for editing.
- Search
- Describes the different kinds of search you can use to browse MusicBrainz. Also includes the advanced search syntax.
- MusicBrainz Terminology
- A collection of terms the MusicBrainz community uses, what they mean, and wheter there is a wiki page explaining them.
For the software
- Picard Documentation
- Documentation of MusicBrainz Picard, MusicBrainz' official tagger.
Other
- Privacy Policy
- Privacy implications of being a MusicBrainz editor.
- Flickr Machine Tag
- How to use flickr tags to refer to MusicBrainz artists, releases, tracks or labels.
Developer Documentation
Metadata
- MusicBrainz_XML_Meta_Data
- Describes the MusicBrainz XML Metadata Format
Software
- Client HOWTO
- Describes the use of libmusicbrainz, and the Client Examples programs.
Discs
- Disc Submission
- An overview of the highly technical content of Disc ID Calculation.
Tagging
- ID3v2.4.0
- Useful links for people wanting to use ID3v2 tags in applications.
- ID3v2 Tags
- A list of some TXXX tags for ID3v2 to toss about and try to "standardize".
- Disc IDs and Tagging
- A short exposé on various tagging standards and their handling of DiscIDs.
- MusicBrainz Tag
- Standardization for MusicBrainz-specific tags.
- MusicBrainz Identifier
- As used in standardized MusicBrainzTags.
Database
- MusicBrainz Database
- Start page for documentation about the database.
- Panther DB Installation
- Steps to intall PostgreSQL and import MusicBrainz data on Mac OS X 10.3 aka Panther.
- Debian VMWare Database
- HOWTO install the database under Debian running under VMWare.
Other Documentation
- Japanese documentation for MusicBrainz Metadata Initiative 2.1
- Other Databases -- Other music databases which we might try to work with
- MusicBrainz Summits
