Style

This page serves as an index for all of the documents which collectively describe the official MusicBrainz style guidelines. Pages listed here describe the current community agreements on how to enter MusicBrainz data, which are to be followed when editing.

Notable ambiguities or internal inconsistencies should be discussed with the community in the forums and then reported on the MusicBrainz Style issue tracker. In case of disagreement with the current guidelines, any proposed change should follow the same process.

1. Style principles
   • Error corrections and artist intent
2. Deprecated style guidelines

1. Titles
   1. OC ReMix series
2. Artist
   1. Artist sort names
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 artists
    2. Special purpose labels
    3. Special purpose track titles
14. Specific types of releases
    1. Pseudo-Releases
    2. Soundtrack
    3. Musical Theatre
    4. Live bootlegs
    5. Podcast and broadcast programs
    6. Audiobooks
    7. Remixes and mashups
15. Classical music
    1. Classical release / release group titles
    2. Classical release / release group artists
    3. Classical track titles
    4. Classical track artists
    5. Classical recording artists
    6. Classical works
16. Miscellaneous

These are the guidelines for each particular language. They primarily cover capitalization, but also include language-specific guidelines for punctuation, transliterations and sort names, when relevant.

1. General transliteration guidelines

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