Style

This page outlines the official MusicBrainz Style Guidelines.

Getting started

1. Quickstart
2. Style principle
   1. Error correction and artist intent
3. Adding a new release
4. Old style practices

Detailed guidelines

1. Titles
   1. Abbreviations
   2. Extra title information
   3. Subtitles
   4. Multiple titles
   5. Split releases
   6. Series numbers
      1. Part numbers
      2. Volume numbers
   7. Featured artists
   8. OC ReMix series
   9. Promo Only series
2. Artist
   1. Artist with multiple names
   2. Sort Name
   3. Aliases
3. Release group
4. Release
5. Recording
6. Label
7. Relationships
   1. URLs
      1. Cover art whitelist
      2. Lyrics whitelist
      3. Score whitelist
      4. What not to link to
   2. Don't make relationship clusters
8. Unknown and untitled
   1. Special Purpose Artist
   2. Special Purpose Label
   3. Special Purpose Track Title
9. Specific types of releases
   1. Soundtrack
   2. Opera
   3. Musical Theatre
   4. Live bootlegs
10. Classical music
11. Miscellaneous

Language specific guidelines

1. Overview
   1. English guidelines
   2. Guidelines for transliterations
   3. Catalan
   4. Chinese
   5. Czech
   6. Danish
   7. Dutch and Frisian
   8. Estonian
   9. Finnish
   10. French
   11. German
   12. Greek
   13. Hebrew
   14. Hungarian
   15. Italian
   16. Japanese
   17. Latin
   18. Latvian
   19. Lithuanian
   20. Norwegian
   21. Polish
   22. Portuguese
   23. Romanian
   24. Russian
   25. Slovak
   26. Spanish
   27. Swedish (proposed)
   28. Turkish
   29. Vietnamese
   30. Yiddish