Contents 1 User Documentation 2 Developer Documentation 2.1 Metadata 2.2 Software 2.3 Discs 2.4 Tagging 2.5 Server 2.6 Database 3 Other Documentation

User Documentation

Frequently Asked Questions

A set of community maintained FAQs.

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.

Advanced Relationships

The Advanced Relationships documentation and the list of Advanced Relationship Types.

Advanced Search

Describes the server-based search (also used by the MusicBrainz Tagger).

MusicBrainz Terminology

A collection of all terms the MusicBrainz community uses, what they mean, and wheter there is a wiki page explaining them.

Release Language

Describes the assignement of the language and script attribute to releases.

Picard Documentation

Documentation of MusicBrainz Picard, MusicBrainz' official tagger.

How Annotations Work

A rudimentary page that explains the Artist Annotation and Release Annotation.

How Voting Works

Also quite rudimentary. It explains the decision mechanism of the ModBot.

Editor Privacy

Privacy implications of being a MusicBrainz editor.

Text Search Syntax

How to use the powerful text search features in MusicBrainz

Flickr Machine Tag

How to use flickr tags to refer to MusicBrainz artists, releases, tracks or labels.

Developer Documentation

Metadata

MusicBrainz_XML_Meta_Data

Describes the MusicBrainz XML Metadata Format

Software

Client HOWTO

Describes the use of libmusicbrainz, and the Client Examples programs.

Discs

Disc Submission

An overview of the highly technical content of Disc ID Calculation.

Tagging

ID3v2.4.0

Useful links for people wanting to use ID3v2 tags in applications.

ID3v2 Tags

A list of some TXXX tags for ID3v2 to toss about and try to "standardize".

Disc IDs and Tagging

A short exposé on various tagging standards and their handling of DiscIDs.

MusicBrainz Tag

Standardization for MusicBrainz-specific tags.

MusicBrainz Identifier

As used in standardized MusicBrainzTags.

Server

Auto-Insert From FreeDB

Explains how data is automatically entered as FreeDBModerations .

Server Access Paths

Explains the various "fixed" ways into the MusicBrainz Server.

Release Editor Arguments

Explains the arguments to pre-populate the fields in the release editor.

Various bug reports and feature pages:

• Calculate Track Times
• Multi-Session CD Bug

Database

MusicBrainz Database

Start page for documentation about the database.

Panther DB Installation

Steps to intall PostgreSQL and import MusicBrainz data on Mac OS X 10.3 aka Panther.

Debian VMWare Database

HOWTO install the database under Debian running under VMWare.

Other Documentation

• Japanese documentation for MusicBrainz Metadata Initiative 2.1
• Other Databases -- Other music databases which we might try to work with
• Links To Free Creative Commons License Music
• MusicBrainz Summits