Style

This page outlines the official MusicBrainz Style Guidelines.

Getting started

1. Style principle
   1. Error correction and artist intent
2. Old style practices

Detailed guidelines

1. Titles
   1. OC ReMix series
2. Artist
   1. Sort Name
3. Release group
4. Release
5. Recording
6. Work
7. Series
8. Place
9. Event
10. Aliases
11. Artist credits
12. Relationships
    1. URLs
       1. Lyrics whitelist
       2. Other databases whitelist
13. Unknown and untitled
    1. Special Purpose Artist
    2. Special Purpose Label
    3. Special Purpose Track Title
14. Specific types of releases
    1. Pseudo-Releases
    2. Soundtrack
    3. Musical Theatre
    4. Live bootlegs
    5. Broadcast programs
    6. Audiobooks
15. Classical music
    1. Release / Release group title
    2. Release / Release group artists
    3. Track titles
    4. Track artists
    5. Recording artists
    6. Works
16. Miscellaneous

Language specific guidelines

These pages cover guidelines for a particular language and the countries in which the languages are spoken. They primarily cover capitalisation, but also include guidelines for punctuation, transliterations and sortnames.

1. English guidelines (English in classical music)
2. Guidelines for transliterations
3. Catalan
4. Chinese
5. Czech
6. Danish
7. Dutch and Frisian
8. Estonian (Estonian in classical music)
9. Finnish
10. French
11. German
12. Greek
13. Hebrew
14. Hungarian
15. Italian
16. Japanese
17. Latin
18. Latvian
19. Lithuanian
20. Norwegian
21. Polish
22. Portuguese
23. Romanian
24. Russian
25. Slovak
26. Spanish (Spanish in classical music)
27. Swedish
28. Turkish
29. Vietnamese
30. Yiddish