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MusicBrainz

FAQ

1. Why vote abstain?

  • I'm not interested it it and want it to disappear from my search results
  • Edit looks correct but verifying it takes too much time
  • I just want to follow a discussion
  • I don't know
  • ...

In general, if you want people to vote yes on your edits or as far as approve them, make good edit notes.

Need votes in a timely manner? Please post in the Voting/Auto-editor Request Thread. Do you think I've voted unfairly? Please speak up by leaving an edit note. I'm always willing to rectify my votes or help you out.

Also read:

Todo

Voting

Editing

Editing resources

Tracking and discovering new music

See Keep track of new releases/artists

Cover art sources

This list deliberately omits other databases (Whitelist)

Shops

Lists of non-digital retailers that have proven to be useful

  • HHV (some are badly cropped but other than that a fine source for cover art, especially vinyl)
  • Rockers
  • Decks (annoying site design, some images have watermarks but otherwise decent for vinyl cover art)
  • Mandarake (Japanese secondhand shop, tends to have good scans of front and back)

Marketplaces

Usually just photos but better than no reference (sometimes I even add them when scans are already present) Make sure to select type "Raw/Unedited" when adding those

Multiple countries and languages

Japanese

Spanish, Portuguese, etc.

Russian

DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)

Swedish

Polish

Estonian

French

Turkish

SEA (Southeast Asia)

Useful references

Tools

Release import

See wiki

ISRC batch submission

See wiki

Disc ID

See wiki

Bookmarklets

General

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Userscripts

Without them editing (and voting) is a PITA

Repos

General

Various userscripts that can make not only editing life better :)

Images

Sick of websites showing postage stamp sized images only? Try one of these.

Non-browser scripts

  • vgmdbrip (batch download high resolution images off VGMdb)
    • Image Picka can easily take its place and is more flexible
    • The "Enhanced Cover Art Uploads" userscript by ROpdebee can automatically grab and queue them for upload to the cover art archive
  • Macros by jesus2099 for EmEditor

Web browser extensions

Various extensions that can make not only editing life better :)

Image editing

  • Jpegcrop (lossless JPEG manipulation)
  • GIMP (alternative to Adobe Photoshop)

Tips & tricks

Where to find barcode on digital releases?

The barcode field is supposed to store the EAN / UPC for digital releases. See MBS-7419 Those can often be found hidden somewhere on the site (check page source, URLs, etc.) or acquired via an API if available.

Spotify

iTunes

  • Ca. 2021 Apple started embedding data from the Apple Music API in the page source, there is a userscript to parse and display it
  • Take a look at the thumbnail URL, sometimes it's in there.
  • If you found the barcode there or somewhere else you can do a check with their API
  • The Enterprise Partner Feed is probably the best of all, if you have access to it.

Deezer

7digital

Bandcamp

HDtracks

  • Use the API. The productId can be found in the URL of the release, e.g. https://www.hdtracks.com/#/album/5e16dc6995ad4845eaed2d14
    • Full release details: https://hdtracks.azurewebsites.net/api/v1/album/<productId>
    • Just title, description and UPC: https://hdtracks.azurewebsites.net/api/v1/album/<productId>/meta

Beatport

Qobuz

  • Use the API

WIP

For now merely an unsorted list of research methods/sites, notes and other stuff

Freedb

When dealing with obscure CDs or working on reports like Discs as separate releases that are hard to prove to exist:

Userscript managers

Firefox's CSP implementation can be troublesome, especially when using multiple extensions that touch CSP (For Tampermonkey you can enable "Add Tampermonkey to the HTML's CSP" but it will break page content occasionally)

Mass editing workflows

Release addition:

BookBrainz

-> WIP <- For now mostly a link collection of useful and other book related sites

Databases

Shops

Distributors

Blogs

Forums

Archives

Dictionaries

Multilingual

English

German

Japanese-English

OSINT

Other lists

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