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Welcome to the MusicBrainz wiki! Currently containing 1,205 pages by 1,528 editors.

Help Community Development Editing Guidelines Style Guidelines Capitalization Guidelines

The MusicBrainz Wiki is a dynamic and growing information resource to help you understand MusicBrainz, learn how to use and contribute to it more effectively, and to help shape the direction it takes into the future.

Help

Introduction to MusicBrainz

New users can find an introduction to MusicBrainz in this Wiki, as well as an explanation of the Picard Tagger, how to contribute, and MusicBrainz press information.

Frequently Asked Questions

These FAQs are maintained by the MusicBrainz community. Chances are, if you have a question on how to use MusicBrainz, you'll find the answer here.

Documentation

MusicBrainz contains different types of entities, each storing different types of data. You can find more information on each type of entity via the links below.

Advanced Relationships Artists Artist Credits

Labels Mediums Recordings / Tracks

Release Release Group Tracklists

URLs Works

Guidelines for Editing and Style

This wiki contains important guidelines that help determine how data is added to, and modified on, the database.

• Editing Guidelines and how editing works, with information on the most effective ways to add new data and correct data.
• Special Purpose Artists: Special entries to address various needs when selecting an Artist.
• Special Purpose Labels: Special entries to address various needs when selecting a Label.
• The Style Principles

1. Artist Intent

2. Strong Guidelines

Abbreviation Style Box Set Name Style Disc Number Style

Multiple Title Style Part Number Style Release Title Style

Series Number Style Split Release Title Style Volume Number Style

3. Consistent Original Data

4. Style Guidelines

Advanced Relationship Style Classical Style Guidelines Data Track Style EP Style Extra Title Information Style

Featuring Artist Style Live Bootleg Style Live Track Style Miscellaneous Guideline Non-Album Track

Opera Track Style Remix Style Series Number Style Series Style Guideline Sortname Style

Subtitle Style Untitled Track Style Versus Style

• Capitalization Guidelines

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English Estonian Finnish French Frisian

German Greek Hebrew Hungarian Italian

Latin Latvian Lithuanian Norwegian Nynorsk

Polish Portuguese Romanian Russian Slovak

Spanish Vietnamese Yiddish For Transliterations

Community

The users who take care of the MusicBrainz database have started various small community projects around specialized areas. This helps people to coordinate their editing efforts and to find like minded editors who have knowledge in similar areas.

Feel free to contact or join these groups, or even to found a new one!

Development

MusicBrainz is actively being developed by its community, and offers a number of different products.

Feel free to check out our server and database, and the license which covers them, or to suggest something new!