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MusicBrainz Music Metadata Fetcher

Fetch metadata for music entities (artists, releases, recordings, labels, works) from the official MusicBrainz open database. Query by MBID, search by name, or browse by type. No API key required. Ideal for music apps, licensing, catalog enrichment, and LLM data prep.

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Pay per usage

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Developer

Bruno Finger

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2 days ago

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Features

5 entity types: Artists, Releases, Recordings, Labels, Works
Two input modes:
- Search by free-text query
- Direct lookup by MusicBrainz IDs (MBIDs)
Structured output: Consistent schema across all entity types
Rate-limited: Respects MusicBrainz's 1 request/second policy
Pay-per-event: Charged per music entity fetched

Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
`entityType`	string	Yes	Entity type: `artist`, `release`, `recording`, `label`, `work`
`query`	string	No*	Free-text search query
`mbids`	array[string]	No*	List of MBIDs to look up directly (max 50)
`limit`	integer	No	Max results for search (1-100, default 20)
`offset`	integer	No	Pagination offset for search (default 0)

*Either query or mbids must be provided, not both.

Output

Each result is a row with these fields:

Field	Description
`entityType`	Type of entity (artist, release, recording, label, work)
`mbid`	MusicBrainz ID
`name`	Primary name/title
`sortName`	Sort name (artists/labels)
`disambiguation`	Disambiguation comment
`type`	Entity type/subtype
`gender`	Gender (artists only)
`area`	Area/country name
`beginDate`	Begin date (YYYY-MM-DD or partial)
`endDate`	End date
`ended`	Whether the entity has ended
`country`	ISO country code
`labelCode`	Label code (labels/releases)
`status`	Release status
`packaging`	Release packaging
`language`	Language code (works)
`script`	Script code (works)
`isrcs`	ISRCs (recordings)
`video`	Has video flag
`error`	Error message if any

Examples

Search for artists named "Nirvana"

{
  "entityType": "artist",
  "query": "Nirvana",
  "limit": 10
}

Look up specific releases by MBID

{
  "entityType": "release",
  "mbids": [
    "a1b2c3d4-e5f6-7890-abcd-ef1234567890",
    "b2c3d4e5-f6a7-8901-bcde-f12345678901"
  ]
}

Search for recordings

{
  "entityType": "recording",
  "query": "Bohemian Rhapsody",
  "limit": 5
}

API Reference

Rate Limits

MusicBrainz allows 1 request per second from a single IP. This actor automatically rate-limits to comply.

Data License

MusicBrainz data is available under the Creative Commons CC0 / Public Domain license.

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