Server for the MusicBrainz project
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Documentation •
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## About
MusicBrainz Server is the web frontend to the MusicBrainz Database
and is accessible at http://musicbrainz.org.
MusicBrainz is a user-maintained open community that collects music metadata
and makes it available to the public in the form of a relational database.
For more information, [visit our website](https://musicbrainz.org/doc/About).
To get help, please join #metabrainz on irc.libera.chat
Breaking changes to the database schema or our API / web service will be announced on
[our blog](https://blog.metabrainz.org/category/musicbrainz+breaking-changes/),
so consider following that.
Installation
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Full installation instructions are available in [INSTALL.md](INSTALL.md).
General Prerequisites:
* Ubuntu/Debian (or some other Unix-like operating system at your own risks)
* Node (at least version 24)
* Perl (at least version 5.42)
* PostgreSQL (at least version 18)
Reporting bugs
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Please report issues on our [bug tracker](http://tickets.metabrainz.org/).
Contributing
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Please submit all patches to [GitHub](https://github.com/metabrainz/musicbrainz-server/pulls) for review.
See the [contributing guidelines](CONTRIBUTING.md).
License
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MusicBrainz Server is released under the GPLv2 or later.
See the [license notice](COPYING.md).
Further reading
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* [MusicBrainz Server](https://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Server)
* [MusicBrainz Database](https://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Database)
* [Database Schema](https://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Database/Schema)