MusicBrainz MCP. Catalog every detail of an artist's discography.

Listen up. This server connects your AI client right to MusicBrainz, which is basically the world’s biggest open database for music metadata. You ain't gotta mess with any API keys or nothing—you just talk to your agent about music, and it handles the rest.

Identifying Artists & Works

Ya can get detailed profiles on artists using get_artist if you feed it their unique MBID; this pulls up aliases and all their related works. Need to track down a band? Use search_artists with advanced queries, which returns names, types, and even active date ranges—you'll get up to 100 results.

If you’re hunting for the original composition itself—the actual 'work,' separate from any recording—run search_works; this lets you find details by title or writer, giving you the ISWC code and identifying the original writers.

Tracking Releases & Recordings

To scope out an album version, start with search_releases, which lets you filter albums using criteria like country, label name, or if it's marked as official or a bootleg. Once you have a specific album MBID, get_release pulls all the deep details: track listings, labels involved, and artists credited. You can also use search_recordings to find individual tracks using keywords; this returns titles, artists, durations, and ISRCs, capped at 100 results.

For a single recording's full data dump—including its ISRC codes and which albums it belongs to—use get_recording with the MBID. If you wanna track down EPs or singles that span multiple releases, check out get_release_group, which uses an MBID to get info on canonical groups of albums or singles.

Mapping Labels & Sources

Need to know about a record company? search_labels lets you hunt for labels by name or type, spitting out country details and founding dates. If you have the label’s unique MBID, get_label gives you detailed info, including its type and when it was founded. For finding specific album versions from a source, run browse_releases_by_label, which lists all releases tied to that record company, detailing artists, dates, and countries.

Conversely, if an artist is the focus, use browse_releases_by_artist to list every single album release for them, showing titles, dates, countries, and labels.

Pinpointing Locations & Groups

If you gotta filter your searches by geography, run search_areas; this pulls up official IDs for places like countries or cities that you can then feed into other searches. To find the definitive version of an album group—say, a canonical single or EP—use search_release_groups with just the title and artist name.

How Ya Use It

You don't gotta build complex queries. You just tell your agent what you need. For example, if you ask it to 'find all Pink Floyd albums from 1973,' your AI client runs search_releases through the right filters and spits out structured data directly in the chat. If you wanna know about a track's history, you just say, 'what are the details for this recording MBID?' and it hits the database.

It’s all about natural language input; the agent handles the metadata lookup.