This page outlines the official MusicBrainz Style Guidelines.
Getting started
- Quickstart
- Style principle
- Error correction and artist intent
- Adding a new release
- Old style practices
Detailed guidelines
- Titles
- Abbreviations
- Extra title information
- Subtitles
- Multiple titles
- Split releases
- Series numbers
- Part numbers
- Volume numbers
- Featured artists
- OC ReMix series
- Promo Only series
- Artist
- Artist with multiple names
- Sort Name
- Aliases
- Release group
- Release
- Recording
- Label
- Relationships
- URLs
- Cover art whitelist
- Lyrics whitelist
- Score whitelist
- What not to link to
- Don't make relationship clusters
- Unknown and untitled
- Special Purpose Artist
- Special Purpose Label
- Special Purpose Track Title
- Specific types of releases
- Soundtrack
- Opera
- Musical Theatre
- Live bootlegs
- Broadcast programs
- Classical music
- Miscellaneous
Language specific guidelines
- Overview
- English guidelines
- Guidelines for transliterations
- Catalan
- Chinese
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch and Frisian
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Latin
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Slovak
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Turkish
- Vietnamese
- Yiddish
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Overview | Style Principle · Error correction & Artist intent · Old and/or outdated style practices |
Title Style | Titles · Abbreviations · Extra title information · Subtitles · Multiple titles · Split releases · Series numbers (Parts, Volumes) · Featured artists · OC ReMix series · Promo Only series |
Entities | Artist (Multiple names, Sort name, Aliases) · Release Group · Release · Recording · Label |
Relationships | Relationships · URLs (Cover Art Whitelist, Lyrics Whitelist, Score Whitelist) · Don't make relationship clusters |
Classical | Classical portal · Release title · Release artist · Track artist · Recording artist |
Special Cases/Misc. | Unknown and untitled entities (Special Purpose Artist, Special Purpose Label, Special Purpose Track Title) · Specific types of releases (Soundtracks, Opera, Theatre, Live bootleg, Broadcast) · Miscellaneous |
Languages | English (Classical) · Catalan · Chinese · Czech · Danish · Dutch and Frisian · Estonian (Classical) · Finnish · French · German · Greek · Hebrew · Hungarian · Italian · Japanese · Latin · Latvian · Lithuanian · Norwegian · Polish · Portuguese · Romanian · Russian · Slovak · Spanish (Classical) · Swedish · Turkish · Vietnamese · Yiddish · Transliterations |