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This is the official list of databases allowed for the Other Databases Relationship Type. For adding new databases to the list, please follow the standard proposal procedure.

General pages

Rate Your Music (http://rateyourmusic.com/)

WorldCat (http://www.worldcat.org/)

International network of library holdings

MusicMoz (http://musicmoz.org/)

45cat (http://www.45cat.com/)

Global database for 7" vinyl

Open Library (http://openlibrary.org/) Template:ticket

Internet Archive's project for books (including audiobooks)

WhoSampled (http://www.whosampled.com) Template:ticket

Details of samples, covers and interpolations

Regional pages

Asian

Generasia (http://www.generasia.com/wiki/) (formerly known as J-Pop Stop) Template:ticket

A wiki containing information about the music scene in Japan, South Korea, China and Taiwan.

Australian

Trove (http://trove.nla.gov.au/) Template:ticket

Australian library/historical resource database maintained by the National Library of Australia.

Brazilian

Discos do Brasil (http://www.discosdobrasil.com.br/)

Brazilian music database, based on the creator's private collection but with fairly complete info for it.

Chinese

Rock in China (http://www.rockinchina.com/) Template:ticket

A wiki detailing the recent Chinese underground/independent music scene.

Danish

DHHU (http://www.dhhu.dk/) Template:ticket

Danish wiki site containing extensive information about Danish hip hop releases (= "udgivelser") since the 1980's.

Rockens Danmarkskort (http://www.rockensdanmarkskort.dk/) Template:ticket

"The Rock Music Map of Denmark" is at its core a collection of stories and anecdotes from, with, and by music people related to various locations around Denmark. It is run by the Danish Museum of Rock Music.

Estonian

ESTER (http://www.elnet.ee/ester/)

Estonian library database. Divided in two branches, Tallinn (http://tallinn.ester.ee) and Tartu (http://tartu.ester.ee).

French

Encyclopedisque (http://www.encyclopedisque.fr/)

French database for 7" vinyl.

German

Musik-Sammler (http://www.musik-sammler.de/)

German generalist database.

Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (http://d-nb.info/) Template:ticket

German National Library, bibliographic database.

Italian

Discografia Nazionale della canzone italiana (http://discografia.dds.it/)

Italian database of musica leggera, especially useful for older releases.

Japanese

Anime News Network (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/) Template:ticket

An encyclopedia with information about Japanese anime (including foreign adaptations).

Norwegian

Rockipedia (http://www.rockipedia.no)

User editable encyclopaedia of norwegian rock/pop/etc. music.

Taiwanese

ISRC查詢系統 (http://isrc.ncl.edu.tw/)

Taiwanese ISRC database, maintained by the National Central Library. Note that the track order may not match physical releases, since tracks are sorted by ISRC code.

Genre pages

Electronic

rolldabeats (http://www.rolldabeats.com/)

psydb (http://www.psydb.net/)

Folk

The Session (http://www.thesession.org/) Template:ticket

"Jam session" resource for primarily Irish trad. musicians. Useful for linking recordings to works. (Can be linked against Release Groups and Works.)

Metal

Metal-Archives (http://www.metal-archives.com/)

The most complete metal database.
Release pages used to be related to MusicBrainz Release Groups, but it now supports release "versions" which are the equivalent of our Releases. Newer or updated releases should then be related to MusicBrainz Releases.

Spirit of Metal (http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/)

Less accurate but more wide in focus than Metal-Archives.

Soundtracks

OverClocked ReMix (http://ocremix.org/)

Apart from a database of OverClocked ReMix arrangements, also contains information about video game music in itself.

SoundtrackCollector (http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/) Template:ticket

Database of soundtrack releases and composers. Movie title pages should be related to MusicBrainz Release Groups.

Theatre

IBDb (http://www.ibdb.com)

The official database for Broadway theatre information.

IOBDb (http://www.iobdb.com)

The Lortel Archives, or "Internet Off-Broadway Database". For non-Broadway New York productions.

Theatricalia (http://theatricalia.com/)

A database of past and future theatre productions. Not restricted to any specific place.