Style

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This page serves as an index for all of the documents which collectively describe the official MusicBrainz style guidelines. Links on this page identify documents as a single source of truth for MusicBrainz data standards related to their named topic.

Notable ambiguities or internal inconsistencies should be reported at the MusicBrainz Style issue tracker.

General guidelines

  1. Style principles
  2. Deprecated style guidelines

Detailed guidelines

Language-specific guidelines

See also: Transliteration

These pages cover the formatting standards for individual languages and the localities in which they are spoken. The conventions regarding capitalization are present for all languages written in scripts with case distinction, and many also include guidelines for punctuation, transliteration and sort names.

  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


Style
OverviewStyle Principle · Error correction & Artist intent · Old and/or outdated style practices · Forums · How to propose style changes
Title StyleTitles · OC ReMix series
EntitiesArtist (Sort name) · Release Group · Release · Recording · Work · Series · Place · Event · Aliases · Artist credits
RelationshipsRelationships · URLs (Lyrics Whitelist)
ClassicalClassical portal · Release title · Release artist · Track titles · Track artist · Recording artist · Works
Special Cases/Misc.Unknown and untitled entities (Special Purpose Artist, Special Purpose Label, Special Purpose Track Title) · Specific types of releases (Pseudo-Releases, Soundtracks, Theatre, Live bootleg, Broadcast, Audiobooks, Remixes and mashups) · Miscellaneous
LanguagesEnglish (Classical) · Catalan · Chinese · Czech · Danish · Dutch and Frisian · Estonian (Classical) · Finnish · French · German · Greek · Hebrew · Hungarian · Italian · Japanese · Latin · Latvian · Lithuanian · Norwegian · Polish · Portuguese · Romanian · Russian · Slovak · Spanish (Classical) · Swedish · Turkish · Vietnamese · Yiddish · Transliterations
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