About MusicBrainz
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 MusicBrainz is connected.
“List ABBA’s studio albums with original release dates and labels.”
What comes back: Release groups with first release date, type and label information from MusicBrainz.
“Who composed and who recorded "Visa vid vindens ängar"?”
What comes back: The work with its composer and lyricist, and the recordings linked to it with artists and dates.
MusicBrainz MCP tools
The 10 tools the MusicBrainz server offers to Kahubi. The assistant picks the right one for each question.
musicbrainz_search_entitiesFull-text search across a MusicBrainz entity type (artist, release-group, release, recording, work, label) using a Lucene query string.
musicbrainz_get_artistArtist profile by MBID: type, country, life span, gender, area, aliases, tags/genres, release-groups, band-membership / collaboration relationships, and external links.
musicbrainz_get_release_groupRelease-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_releaseOne edition by MBID: ordered media with tracks, lengths and recording MBIDs, label + catalog number, barcode, country, release date, packaging, text representation, and a cover-...
musicbrainz_get_recordingRecording (a specific performance, distinct from the abstract work) by MBID: length, artist credits, ISRCs, one upstream page of release appearances with completeness metadata,...
musicbrainz_get_workWork (a composition, distinct from a recording) by MBID: type, languages, ISWCs, writers/composers/lyricists, movements, arrangements, aliases, tags, and external links.
musicbrainz_get_labelLabel 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_identifierResolve 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_entitiesPaginate entities linked to one parent MBID.
musicbrainz_get_cover_artCover Art Archive images for a release or release-group MBID: front/back flags, image types, full-resolution URLs, and 250/500/1200px thumbnail URLs.
Using MusicBrainz in Kahubi
- 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.
More knowledge bases sources
- Project GutenbergSearch and read 70,000+ public-domain books.
- Getty Vocabularies (AAT, TGN, ULAN)Controlled vocabularies for art, architecture, historical place names and artist names.
- OEIS (integer sequences)The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences: identify a sequence from its terms.
- WikidataStructured knowledge graph: entity search, statements and SPARQL queries.
- WikipediaArticle search, summaries, full articles and sections in any language edition.
- GlottologReference catalogue of the world’s languages, dialects and families.