Products > Database > Database Download

Introduction

Please read the Database product page, and the Database Schema documentation for a description of the schema, if you are not familiar with the MusicBrainz Database.

Public Domain

The core data (artists, releases, tracks etc.) is available under the Public Domain license.

• mbdump.tar.bz2 Core data (artists, albums, tracks etc.) You need only this dump to setup a working Test Server
• mbdump-cdstubs.tar.bz2 CD stubs

Creative Commons

The edits, editors (non-personal data only), and derived data is available under the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 license.

• mbdump-derived.tar.bz2 Derived data (mainly search indexes)
• mbdump-moderation.tar.bz2 Edit data (editors, open edits/notes/votes, statistics)
• mbdump-closedmoderation.tar.bz2 Closed edit data (closed edits/notes/votes)
• mbdump-artistrelation.tar.bz2 Closed edit data (closed edits/notes/votes)

RDF export

The RDF export, mbdump.rdf.bz2 has gone for good. If you want a complete RDF export, please download the PostgreSQL database export (as described above), set up a MusicBrainz Server, then run mb_server/admin/RDFDump.pl to produce an RDF export.

Get files from the primary FTP server

Older data files, and other miscellaneous files are available from the MusicBrainz FTP server

Installation

There are a few contributed guidelines how to setup the database on different systems. See Database Setup for the list of available documents. The easiest way to get a running database is to install a Virtual MusicBrainz Server.