MusicBrainz Identifier
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MusicBrainz aims to be a comprehensive music database that will allow people and computers to have meaningful conversations about music. In order to facilitate these meaningful conversations, MusicBrainz needs to identify each artist, album, label and track with a unique identifier.
All IDs in MusicBrainz are UUIDs. For example: 95807106-af9f-417d-b1d0-d287c5504ec1
- Artist IDs:
- These are unique IDs used to identify an artist. The absolute URI takes the form
http://musicbrainz.org/artist/<UUID>
- These are unique IDs used to identify an artist. The absolute URI takes the form
- Label IDs:
- These are unique IDs used to identify a label. The absolute URI takes the form
http://musicbrainz.org/label/<UUID>
- These are unique IDs used to identify a label. The absolute URI takes the form
- Release IDs:
- These are unique IDs used to identify a release. The absolute URI takes the form
http://musicbrainz.org/release/<UUID>
- These are unique IDs used to identify a release. The absolute URI takes the form
- Track IDs:
- These are unique IDs used to identify a track. The absolute URI takes the form
http://musicbrainz.org/track/<UUID>
- These are unique IDs used to identify a track. The absolute URI takes the form
These IDs are also stored in tags in music files by the MusicBrainz Tagger applications. See MusicBrainz Tag for more detailed information.
Special Identifiers
There are some special identifiers used by MusicBrainz.
89ad4ac3-39f7-470e-963a-56509c546377
is an artist ID used to represent various artists1c6c63fb-f9af-4669-92c5-a1594671766a
is an artist ID used to represent an artist not in the MusicBrainz database.