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MusicBrainz API
Open music encyclopedia: artists, releases, recordings and MBIDs, no key
MusicBrainz is a community-maintained open music encyclopedia with a free web service covering artists, releases, recordings, labels, and works, all linked by stable MusicBrainz IDs (MBIDs). Non-commercial use is free with no API key; you must send a descriptive User-Agent. It is the canonical free source for cross-linking music metadata.
Free tier
Free for non-commercial use; no key, no signupRate limits
~1 request/second per IP (average); a meaningful User-Agent header is mandatoryAuth
No keyBase URL
https://musicbrainz.org/ws/2What you'd build with it
- Resolve an artist or album to a stable MBID for linking across services
- Enrich a music dataset with canonical metadata and relationships
- Cross-reference cover art via the linked Cover Art Archive (coverartarchive.org)
Key endpoints
- GET
/artistSearch artists by name (?query=&fmt=json) - GET
/release-groupSearch release groups (albums/EPs/singles) - GET
/recording/{mbid}Look up a recording by MBID with inc relations - GET
/release/{mbid}Look up a release by MBID
Members
Members get the runnable recipe
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Tags
musicmetadataopen-datacatalogue