# MusicBrainz

MusicBrainz is an open music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public. MusicBrainz is an excellent resource to find missing tag information for your music.

Yate allows you to search the MusicBrainz database for desired releases via a wizard. The wizard is launched via the Actions>MusicBrainz wizard... menu or context menu items. Use the wizard to:

- perform a search
- choose a release from the result list
- select which tag information you want to import
- edit the retrieved data
- view artwork
- map the retrieved tracks to a list of files selected in the Yate main window

More information about MusicBrainz can be found at the website musicbrainz.org.

Help for each step of the wizard can be found at the following links:

Searching

The result list

The release display

The artwork display

File mapping

The view changes display

If you have previously located an album via MusicBrainz and imported the MusicBrainz release id, you can skip the search and release list steps. Simply start the wizard from the context menu with at least one of the album's tracks selected. When started in this manner, retained import settings will be used. If you want to ignore the retained settings and use the last used values, hold down the Shift key when starting the wizard.

The db column in the main window will display Ⓜ if a file has a stored reference to a MusicBrainz release.