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Arguments to the MusicBrainz Release Editor

There are a number of arguments that can be passed to the MusicBrainz release editor in order to fill the editor with data that should make adding a new release to MusicBrainz relatively simple.

POST the following arguments to http://musicbrainz.org/cdi/enter.html :

Argument name

required

Description

artistid

yes

The id (rowid or MBID) of the artist to add a release to. Set to 1 when hasmultipletrackartists = 1

tracks

yes

The number of tracks on this release

releasename

yes

The name of the release

releasembid

no

The MBID of the new release*

hasmultipletrackartists'

yes

Does the release have a single artist or multiple artists?

toc

no

MusicBrainz Audio CD TOC associated with this release.

discid

no

MusicBrainz DiscId associated with this release

track#

no

The title of the track. # is the track number, zero based.

tr#_artistame

no

If the artist isn't already in the database, use this argument to provide a name

tr#_artistid

no

In rowid or MBID format if the artist ID is known.

tr#_id

no

The MBID of the track*

tracklength#

no

In minutes:seconds format. To pass millisecond track durations, please pass a complete TOC.

# == Track numbers, zero offset based

* == Passing this argument only works for editors who are allowed to Submit MBIDs.


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