Products > Database > Database Download

Introduction

Please read the Database product page, and the Database Schema documentation for a description of the schema, if you are not familiar with the MusicBrainz Database.

Public Domain

The core data (artists, releases, tracks etc.) is available under the Public Domain license.

mbdump.tar.bz2 Core data (artists, albums, tracks etc.) You need only this dump to setup a working Test Server

mbdump-cdstubs.tar.bz2 CD stubs

Creative Commons

The edits, editors (non-personal data only), and derived data is available under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license.

mbdump-derived.tar.bz2 Derived data (mainly search indexes)

mbdump-moderation.tar.bz2 Edit data (editors, open edits/notes/votes, statistics)

mbdump-closedmoderation.tar.bz2 Closed edit data (closed edits/notes/votes)

mbdump-artistrelation.tar.bz2 Closed edit data (closed edits/notes/votes)

RDF export

The RDF export, mbdump.rdf.bz2, is no longer available. If you want a complete RDF export, please download the PostgreSQL database export (as described above), set up a MusicBrainz Server, then run mb_server/admin/RDFDump.pl to produce an RDF export.

Get files from the primary FTP server

Older data files, and other miscellaneous files are available from the MusicBrainz FTP server

Installation

There are a few different methods to setup the database, see Database Setup for a list of guides.