musicbrainz-mcp

musicbrainz-mcp

An MCP server that provides live access to MusicBrainz metadata and Cover Art Archive images, with optional OAuth-based submission of tags, ratings, and collection edits.

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musicbrainz-mcp

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An MCP server for MusicBrainz, the open music encyclopedia. It gives Claude live access to MusicBrainz metadata — artists, releases, recordings, labels, works, and more — plus Cover Art Archive images, and (optionally) lets you submit your own tags, ratings, and collection edits.

Developed and maintained by AI (Claude Code). Use at your own discretion.

Tools

Read (no credentials required):

Tool What it does
musicbrainz_search Search any entity type with a Lucene query; returns ranked matches + MBIDs
musicbrainz_lookup Look up an entity by MBID, with inc subqueries for linked data
musicbrainz_browse List all entities linked to another (e.g. every release by an artist)
musicbrainz_cover_art Cover Art Archive image URLs for a release / release-group
musicbrainz_resolve Turn a pasted musicbrainz.org URL into its entity
musicbrainz_healthcheck Verify connectivity and whether OAuth writes are configured

Write (OAuth, confirm-gated):

Tool What it does
musicbrainz_submit_tags Apply user tags to an entity on your account
musicbrainz_submit_rating Set your 0–100 rating for an entity
musicbrainz_modify_collection Add/remove entities in one of your collections

Each write makes no network call without confirm: true; it returns a dry-run preview first.

Install

This is a Node MCP server (stdio). Point your MCP host at it:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "musicbrainz": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "musicbrainz-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Reads work immediately. MusicBrainz asks clients to make at most one request per second — the server throttles itself to stay within that limit, so large browses are paced automatically.

Enabling the write tools (optional)

  1. Register an application at musicbrainz.org/account/applications (redirect URI urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob).
  2. Complete the OAuth flow with the tag, rating, and collection scopes to obtain a refresh token.
  3. Provide these via your MCP host's env (or a local .env):
MUSICBRAINZ_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID=...
MUSICBRAINZ_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET=...
MUSICBRAINZ_OAUTH_REFRESH_TOKEN=...

Development

npm install
npm run build
npm test

See CLAUDE.md for architecture and docs/MUSICBRAINZ-API.md for the pinned API shapes.

License

MIT. Data from MusicBrainz, licensed under CC0 / CC BY-NC-SA.

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