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...led [[Amazon Matching|AmazonMatching]] which had the objective to match an album ID to the corresponding ASIN. Today this can only be done manually by addin ...sicBrainz]] albums, depending on whether you consider these to be the same album or not.

...icBrainz they provide a wealth of information that isn’t reproduced on the album itself and often more info that most western CDs contain (such as price and ...on all obis is the barcode. It's not always reproduced on the album so an album missing a barcode isn't necessarily a bootleg or pirated CD in Japan.

...tists. This is a short draft describing the possible collaboration between MusicBrainz and Wikipedia. ==Linking from MusicBrainz to Wikipedia==

...es missing information with data obtained from online music databases like MusicBrainz and AcoustID. '''Add album artwork'''

Standalone recordings (previously called non-album tracks) are [[Recording|recordings]] which are not linked to a [[Release|re ...some such songs are available for download, but are never included in any album or compilation.

==Elements of an Album Review (an opinionated list)== ====Album reviews====

Cover art, also known as "album art" or "album artwork", is artwork that provides a visual representation of a [[Release|r ...any databases built to provide cover art for music releases - and although MusicBrainz' supports cover artwork being uploaded and linked to releases, it is not th

...ecial folder/artist called "Compilations". This is where it gathers what [[MusicBrainz]] would call "Various Artist" releases. Clustering this seems to work well ...to merge these clusters but dragging and dropping both onto the looked up album seems to work okay. (I should check whether you can drag and drop both at o

...digital download, while a release group embraces the overall concept of an album. ...they're talking about a release group. When their publisher says "This new album gets released next week in Japan, and next month in Europe", they're referr

...ins how to correct and update the tags of your music in your iTunes from [[MusicBrainz]] using Picard. Please read everything and check that this method will work # Select the first track in an album/selection

...ng doujin releases into MusicBrainz where guidance beyond [[Style|the core MusicBrainz style guide]] seems necessary. ...pecific marketing on the product indicates otherwise by labeling it a solo album and/or indicating a different primary release artist.

...so plans to use the track listings and the [[Advanced Relationship]]s from MusicBrainz to provide listeners with context such as fan sites and Wikipedia pages as ...thin, into and out of the BBC's music websites. It also potentially offers MusicBrainz access to the expertise of specialist programme makers across the BBC and s

We have created several datasets that use the term “canonical”. Since MusicBrainz aims to catalog all released music, the database contains a lot of differen ...work in our production systems on ListenBrainz to map incoming listens to MusicBrainz entries. When looking at the descriptions our datasets, please consider tha

This page lists tools external to [[MusicBrainz]] that make editing or viewing data more convenient. This includes programs ...rs web browser and make on-the-fly local changes to specific web pages. In MusicBrainz they are generally used to change the display of pages, often facilitating

...n to your ListenBrainz server. Use this to log in to your server with your MusicBrainz details * Look at the [http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/LB list of tickets] that we have open for ListenBrainz and see i

This page describes the syntax for MusicBrainz ''indexed searches'' which use the Lucene text search engine. The search in * It is not possible to search for an album based on its track length, however, it is possible to search via total numb

In the past some ideas on displaying trivia, generated from the [[MusicBrainz]] database, have been mentioned. This page tries to list them. It is best t * [http://lists.musicbrainz.org/pipermail/musicbrainz-experts/2005-July/000023.html July 12 2005]

==MusicBrainz Update== ...d. This has a ton of classical information, so it’d be very interesting to MusicBrainz!

...thank you to all of our sponsors and partners for their support in helping MusicBrainz operate. ...In either case they played a significant role in the success and growth of MusicBrainz.

...t. This feature is designed to allow us to add the following features to [[MusicBrainz]]: | <code>album</code>

...n to your ListenBrainz server. Use this to log in to your server with your MusicBrainz details * Look at the [http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/LB list of tickets] that we have open for ListenBrainz and see i

...ly for the Summer of Code program and if accepted, get paid for hacking on MusicBrainz. Furthermore, all projects must develop '''new''' features for MusicBrainz. Proposals for replacing existing and working projects for the sake of maki

...n to your ListenBrainz server. Use this to log in to your server with your MusicBrainz details * Look at the [http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/LB list of tickets] that we have open for ListenBrainz and see i

Before editing MusicBrainz, you must [[mb:register|create an account]]. ...te Account" on the upper right corner of the main [https://musicbrainz.org MusicBrainz website] to go to the account creation page.

This page is about contributing to the [[mb:|MusicBrainz]] project, which you can do in many ways. There are several ways that you can contribute data to MusicBrainz:

This is a list of applications that have MusicBrainz support built in: ...yer for macOS, inspired by Winamp for Windows. Can retrieve cover art from MusicBrainz for tracks that don't have it embedded.

...ns or other music professionals who contribute to works described in the [[MusicBrainz Database]]. They can also be a non-musical person (like a photographer, an : An organised event which people can attend, and is relevant to MusicBrainz. Events generally refer to live performances, like concerts and festivals.

...icBrainz Entity|entities]] are connected to each other and to URLs outside MusicBrainz. To know more about how to add them, see [[How to Add Relationships]]. * The Metallica album [[release:5997cf87-5225-4830-9edf-358638a24905|St. Anger]] was produced by

"<nowiki>https://musicbrainz.org/doc/jspf#playlist</nowiki>" : { "identifier" : "<nowiki>https://musicbrainz.org/recording/e8f9b188-f819-4e43-ab0f-4bd26ce9ff56</nowiki>",

===Album=== An album, perhaps better defined as a "Long Play" (LP) release, generally consists o

...are the individual CDs, vinyls, etc. contained within the packaging of an album (or any other type of [[Release|release]]). Mediums are always included in

Yate supports MusicBrainz, Beatport, Discogs, AcoustID, AcousticBrainz, tMDB and has the ability to l ...ate usage. The databases can contain common values across all tracks in an album and special aggregated fields such as duration, track count, lowest rating,

...be expressed in the form of one or more audio recordings. While a work in MusicBrainz is usually musical in nature, it is not necessarily so. For example, a work ...to have a specifically ordered sequence of related songs (i.e. a “concept album”).

A MusicBrainz release represents the unique release (i.e. issuing) of a product containin ...xt to a deluxe edition of that same album, you're looking at two different MusicBrainz releases, which are grouped as part of the same [[Release Group|release gro

...n to your ListenBrainz server. Use this to log in to your server with your MusicBrainz details * Look at the [http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/LB list of tickets] that we have open for ListenBrainz and see i

...le to apply these principles to discography databases as well, including [[MusicBrainz]]. For reading up on FRBR, a good start could be [[wikipedia:Functional_Req ...OCLC and Gracenote work. Except that no single entity owns Wikipedia or [[MusicBrainz]], because the contents can be copied freely by anybody. This answers the '

...re we trying to be. Such a database would be as complex an undertaking as MusicBrainz itself. Areas are meant as a secondary level of data and are not expected t ...ive just the name(s) or, if you want to be extra helpful, you can give the MusicBrainz page for the containing area, if we have it already. Also helpful for any a

...n both correcting tags in your digital music and contributing data back to MusicBrainz. If this is your first visit to this page, it might be good to read it all MusicBrainz (often abbreviated to MB) consists of three parts:

== MusicBrainz == *[[jira:MBS-6516]] MusicBrainz Programming Guide

== Slang used by the users in MusicBrainz == ''Origin'': http://chatlogs.musicbrainz.org/musicbrainz/2011/2011-07/2011-07-08.html#T15-34-04-966426

...is personal site that this was originally hosted on, it has been ported to MusicBrainz's wiki by [[User:Voiceinsideyou]]. Attempts to contact RifRaf were made, bu * [[Picard_Tagger|Musicbrainz Picard]] - Mp3 tagging software and database to correct artist and albums.

...atin script on a Japanese release should be in the ''same case'' as on the album art if other available sources, such as official discography or record labe ...common transliteration method used for user-submitted transliterations on MusicBrainz, see [[User:Kepstin/Transliteration_Standard_Japanese|Transliteration Stand

=== MusicBrainz/CAA === # '''SpamBrainz integration''': Enable MusicBrainz to interact with SpamBrainz for [https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archiv

...to your AcousticBrainz server. Use this to log in to your server with your MusicBrainz details * Use the musicbrainz mbid redirect tables to find more duplicates

...rs web browser and make on-the-fly local changes to specific web pages. In MusicBrainz they are generally used to change the display of pages, facilitating editin ...eases, events, or other entities from other websites or databases into the MusicBrainz editor.

If that still doesn't help, please find us in one of the [[MusicBrainz Forum]]s or via the [[Contact Us|Contact]] page. If you would like to updat ...ta from many sources, we want the changes to be reviewed by other users of MusicBrainz.

== MusicBrainz == *[[jira:MBS-6516]] MusicBrainz Programming Guide

...s, DVDs and many other things. It can be a good source for CDs to add to [[MusicBrainz]] if you know what you are doing. [[MusicBrainz]] used [[Amazon Matching|AmazonMatching]] to find releases in Amazon stores

...omewhat similar to the [[Cover Art Archive]] for Creative Commons-licensed album reviews. The BBC has a site for reviews which provides some of the function Currently, MusicBrainz stores only a country (with various entities), based on a current ISO stand

...''website''' and '''user guide''', and people interested in the state of [[MusicBrainz Picard]]’s internationalization. ...nity.metabrainz.org/tags/c/picard/13/translation “translation” tag in the “MusicBrainz Picard” forum category].

== Basic MusicBrainz entities == == Other MusicBrainz terms ==

...omewhat similar to the [[Cover Art Archive]] for Creative Commons-licensed album reviews. The BBC has a site for reviews which provides some of the function of Hibernate Core would solve the issues Musicbrainz has serving certain requests (such as all releases by Mozart). HIbernate Co

Il seguente standard vale sia per Artista che per Album e Brano, definiti da qui in avanti "testo". ...the meaning of sentences, rules are short. These rules applies to Artist, Album and Tracks.

This is a list of packaging recognized by the MusicBrainz release editor. The MusicBrainz packaging release property refers to the ''outermost'' packaging of a relea

...l tracks on a release (for example, it's the only credited violinist in an album of solo violin pieces, or the only credited composer), apply it to every wo ...and does not apply on a track by track basis (e.g. graphic design for the album's cover), then apply the relationship to the release, not the recordings or

* Release groups can be linked to album pages (/album). ...t of our [[Release]]s. Newer or updated releases should then be related to MusicBrainz [[Release]]s.

...an attempt to structure the capture of this information with the current [[MusicBrainz]] database structure. Displaying the day of week is not currently supported within [[MusicBrainz]]; however a [[wikipedia:Userscript|userscript]] is [https://userscripts-mi

When entering a new release into MusicBrainz, the titles should be normalized by following these guidelines. ...s are often found in upper‐case on the back cover of CDs. For example, the album [[ReleaseGroup:964ccc52-2873-3bce-a806-73d71532c539|Songs of Love and Hate]

...unofficial releases, but not every unofficial release should be added as a MusicBrainz bootleg. An exact digital rip of an official physical release does not qual ...eleases that have reached the end of their 'natural' lifecycle, such as an album being sold out, replaced by a shinier version, or retired from a streaming

...n to your ListenBrainz server. Use this to log in to your server with your MusicBrainz details ...ainz could really use reliable BPM values for music that is represented in MusicBrainz. However, the algorithms for this have problems that are very tricky to sol

== MusicBrainz == * find 3(6?) artists that doesn't have their twitterlinks linked to their Musicbrainz entry and add those. (D/T)

...d, just a strong ability to read for comprehension, and familiarity with [[MusicBrainz]]. ...ated because... (bad, but not as bad as a crash making you reenter a whole album)

...e. At the time, this accounted for 20% of all edits on this artist since [[MusicBrainz]]' inception. ...or Venice Music did their job, the record label was corrected, but not the album cover.

...performance from different sources will always have different audio. A new MusicBrainz Recording should be created for each track created from different audio rec ...ix, dub, overdub or version, and should always be given a new recording in MusicBrainz.

...ek''' || '''literal translation to English''' || '''Notes''' || '''[[MusicBrainz]] AR''' ...ords. I must also add that this is translated this way on the backcover of album: [[release:6a627bb6-9d70-43ad-8aba-a69be207d6a4|Μά'ισσα σελήνη]

...nz (like artists or releases). However, they can only be added by [https://musicbrainz.org/privileged relationship editors]. If you want to request an instrument, ...ns to be considered as such. To ensure that the coverage of instruments in MusicBrainz remains reasonable and avoid a huge surge in the amount of instruments, the

* Go to https://musicbrainz.org/release/add?artist=89ad4ac3-39f7-470e-963a-56509c546377 ...wds''' is in bold on that webpage. Put that in the “'''Title:'''” field in MusicBrainz.

There are three main types of tracks that are titled in a specific manner in MusicBrainz: untitled tracks, which are ''known'' to have no title, unknown tracks for ...s the name. These tracks are clearly shown to lack a title on the release (album sleeve and liner notes) they appear on.

...n to your ListenBrainz server. Use this to log in to your server with your MusicBrainz details ...Fresh Releases] page that shows what releases have been recently added to MusicBrainz. Intended as a music discovery tool, this page allows all users to browse n

The API discussed here is an interface to the [[MusicBrainz Database]]. It is aimed at developers of media players, CD rippers, taggers {{:MusicBrainz API/FAQ}}

# Status of MusicBrainz (Rob) == State of MusicBrainz ==

After adding a [[Release|release]] to MusicBrainz, you can add [[Relationships|relationships]] to the release, its recordings ...ching ''very'' carefully before you accidentally create duplicate works in MusicBrainz.

: search for the album ''The Understanding'' by the artist ''Röyksopp'' ...tory <code>is a directory called ''svn''</code>. This contains the latest MusicBrainz server code at the time of release. To make sure you have an <code>up-to-d

...each including a thin magazine-sized biography (each 12 pages long) and an album on CD or cassette tape. There were also two bonus issues, both (confusingly ...attempts to document the discrepancies between the releases as an aid to [[MusicBrainz]] editors.

This page is intended for developers querying the MusicBrainz database directly through '''PostgreSQL'''. ...that create the schema can be found in our [https://github.com/metabrainz/musicbrainz-server/tree/master/admin/sql source code repository].

...formation there are two GPL friendly projects, [http://www.MusicBrainz.org MusicBrainz], [http://www.freedb.org FreeDB] versus for-profit companies and their da ...Public Domain licensed database (FreeDB.org), and the Copyleft database ([[MusicBrainz]].org)?

* They outsource their album reviews and MB data entry to Unique Broadcasting Company * <span class="c10">[http://svn.musicbrainz.org svn.musicbrainz.org] will remain as an interface for the search server

...9a04ee24|Fan pages]]: pick the ones that are most useful as a resource for MusicBrainz users and avoid sites whose unique content is only a few obscure bits and p ...thorized remixes (a well-known example of this is Danger Mouse's "The Grey Album").

* large number of poor album artist and track artist credits, including many bogus artists https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Talk:Recording_Disambiguation

...ons that have been recorded many times - with at least 10 entries to the [[MusicBrainz]] database - that present either numerous spelling variants, or some specif * [http://musicbrainz.org/search/textsearch.html?query=No+Soul+in+These+Old+Shoes&type=track Ain'

One of the first things you'll probably want to do in MusicBrainz is to add a [[Release|release]]. There are two ways to start the process. ...will be because there are other releases with the same artist and title in MusicBrainz, and you will be presented with a list:

...givin' some (subjective) explanations about them, and of course link to [[MusicBrainz]] artists entries, releases and tracks. ...tely, there's no real definition of what '''jazz''' is. Some think [http://musicbrainz.org/search/textsearch.html?query=It+Don%27t+Mean+a+Thing+if+it+Ain%27t+Got+