MusicBrainz

MusicBrainz is an open music encyclopedia collecting music metadata. Search and retrieve artists, releases, recordings, record labels from the world's largest open music database.

Data Model

• Artists, Releases, Recordings, Labels, Areas, Events, Instruments, Places, Release Groups, Series, Works, Genres — core entities; search returns IDs for detail fetches.
• Browse — releases by label, recordings/releases by artist (relationship queries).
• Lookup — by disc ID, ISRC, ISWC, or URL (identifier-based resolution).

Gotchas

• Rate limit: 50 requests/minute; add delay between bulk fetches.