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MusicBrainz

Open music encyclopedia: artists, works, releases, recordings and relationships.

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About this source

Search entities and fetch artists, release groups, releases, recordings and works with dates, labels and relationships. For musicology, media studies and cultural history.

Questions you can ask MusicBrainz

Type them into Kahubi’s chat once the source is connected.

Resolve a list of names to unique identifiers.

What comes back: Matched entities with identifiers, ambiguous matches flagged.

What the assistant can do with it

The 10 tools this server offers to Kahubi. The assistant picks the right one for each question.

  • musicbrainz_search_entities

    Full-text search across a MusicBrainz entity type (artist, release-group, release, recording, work, label) using a Lucene query string.

  • musicbrainz_get_artist

    Artist profile by MBID: type (person/group/…), country, life span, gender, area, aliases, tags/genres, plus the discography (release-groups) and band-membership / collaboration...

  • musicbrainz_get_release_group

    Release-group ("the album" above specific pressings) by MBID: primary type (Album/Single/EP) and secondary types (Live/Compilation), first-release date, artist credit, the list...

  • musicbrainz_get_release

    One edition's full detail by MBID: the tracklist (media → tracks → recordings with lengths and recording MBIDs), label + catalog number, barcode, country, release date, format,...

  • musicbrainz_get_recording

    Recording (a specific performance/track, distinct from the abstract work) by MBID: length, artist credits, ISRCs, the releases it appears on, the work(s) it performs (work-rels...

  • musicbrainz_get_work

    Work (a composition - the song as written, distinct from any specific recording) by MBID: type, language(s), ISWCs (the work-level standard identifier), writer/composer/lyricist...

  • musicbrainz_get_label

    Label by MBID: type (Original Production, Reissue, Imprint, …), country, life span, label code (the LC number), area, aliases, tags, and external links (url-rels - Wikidata, Dis...

  • musicbrainz_lookup_identifier

    Resolve a standard identifier to MusicBrainz entities without a name search - the deterministic path when you already hold an ID.

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  • musicbrainz_browse_entities

    Paginate the COMPLETE set of entities linked to a parent MBID - every release-group by an artist, every release on a label, every recording of a work, every release in a release...

  • musicbrainz_get_cover_art

    Cover Art Archive images for a release or release-group MBID: front/back flags, image types, full-resolution URLs, and 250/500/1200px thumbnail URLs.

Good to know

  • Community server. An open-source server maintained by the MCP community. Kahubi tests it with live queries before listing it and health-checks it regularly.
  • Cited, checkable answers. Results are treated as retrieved material and cited with the source’s own identifiers, so you can open every record the answer relied on.
  • Your files stay private. Only the search the assistant writes for your question is sent to MusicBrainz.

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