Label Resources

Description

This page aims at collecting various informations, links and resources useful to editors who focus on editing and researching on Labels.

General informations

Global market share overview.

External resources

The following sites are useful to find labels homepages:

Wikipedia has an extensive labels list, and a lot of articles:

Wikipedia labels list page

Discogs of course might prove useful: Discogs

This Discogs thread lists some LabelCodes.

This german wikipedia article has a lot of LabelCodes too.

UPFI This French page lists all the labels that belongs to the "Union des Producteurs phonographiques Français Indépendants". Informations about most of the French independent labels can be found on this page.

Genre oriented resources

Jazz

Scott Yanow label page: useful for a quick heads-up about some labels
Michael Fitzgerald label page: has a *lot* of catalogs (although not really detailed)
The jazz discography project has not a lot of labels catalogs, but when they have one, it's good!

MusicBrainz Metadata

There have been in the past preliminary attempts at consolidating data about labels prior to the introduction of labels into the database. Most of their content should be migrated into the database now. They are to be found here:

CatalogCode providing some catalog schemes
Jazz/Labels providing informations/links/catalogs for a number of jazz oriented labels

Labels suggested readings

Labels in MusicBrainz are an important and relatively complex topic. It's recommended that you first start familiarizing yourself with the basic concepts in the General information category of the navigation bar (up that page).

You may then consult the documentation pertaining to AdvancedRelationships and labels, which are listed on the LabelRelationshipClass page.

Editors who want to do more researches, may consult one of the items listed under Advanced documentation.

If you still need help, you may ask your question on the UsersMailingList, the MusicBrainzForum, the IRC channel, or the LabelDiscussion page.

If you're interested in either the future or the past, you may additionally consult/contribute to LabelFuture (suggest enhancements, list problems and limitations, or propose a new masterplan), or LabelHistory (for a list of fixed tickets and some interesting insight into the old days)

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