Documentation Index

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Contents

1 Beginner?
2 How Tos
3 Style Guidelines
4 Artist
5 Release
6 Track
7 Label
8 Advanced Relationships
9 Annotations
10 Edit Types
11 FAQs

Beginner?

Read the Beginners Guide.

How Tos

How Tos: A collection of tutorials. Lightweight, short and user-orientated step by step instructions.

How Editing Works and the different Edit Types: A general introduction and detailed descriptions of each type of edit that you can possibly make to MusicBrainz data.

How Voting Works: Quite rudimentary. It explains the decision mechanism of the ModBot.

Style Guidelines

See the Official Style Guidelines.

Artist

Official Documentation: Artist Overview \| Release Artist \| Track Artist \| Primary Artist \| Secondary Artist \| Featuring Artist \| Fictitious Artist \| Special Purpose Artist Attributes: ID \| Name \| Sort Name \| Alias \| Begin Date \| End Date \| Comment \| Annotation Style: Release Artist Style \| Track Artist Style \| Featuring Artist Style \| Sortname Style \| Same Artist With Different Names \| Different Artists With Same Name \| Band With Main Performer Name Misc: Merge Misspelled Artists \| Editing Suggestions \| Subscriptions / Lists: International Artists

Release

Official Documentation: Release Overview \| Single Artist Release \| Various Artists Release \| Split Release \| Multi-Disc Release Attributes: ID \| Title \| Artist \| Group \| Type \| Status \| Language \| Annotation \| Disc ID \| Cover Art Release Event: Date \| Country \| Label \| Catalog Number \| Barcode \| Format Editing: All release related edit types \| What defines a unique release \| How to merge releases \| ...and why you should merge rather than delete

Track

Official Documentation: Track Overview \| Data Track \| Hidden Track & Pregap Track Attributes: ID \| Title \| Artist \| Duration \| Annotation \| ISRC \| PUID All track related edit types \| Tracks with multiple artists Style: Featuring Artist Style \| Versus Style \| Remix Style \| Data Track Style \| Untitled Track Style \| Part Number Style \| Extra Title Information Style

Label

Official Documentation: Label Overview \| Special Purpose Label Attributes: ID \| Name \| Sort Name \| Alias \| Code \| Begin Date \| End Date \| Comment \| Annotation \| Country \| Type Editing Help: How to identify labels? \| How labels work in MusicBrainz? \| FAQ Different labels with same name or code \| Subscriptions \| Useful resources

Advanced Relationships

Official Documentation: Advanced Relationships Overview \| Relationship Classes \| Relationship Families \| Relationship Types \| Relationship Attributes Style guidelines \| How to add URL relationships \| How to add other relationships \| Suggest a new relationship type

Annotations

Edit Types

Edit Types: Overview \| Artist Edit Type \| Release Group Edit Type \| Release Edit Type \| Track Edit Type \| Label Edit Type \| Relationship Edit Type \| Other Edit Type

FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions: General FAQ \| Account FAQ \| Editing FAQ \| Introduction to Voting Advanced Editing: \| Label FAQ \| Classical Music FAQ Products: Picard FAQ