---
id: "musicbrainz_release_id"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["media"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 83
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/musicbrainz_release_id"
---

# MusicBrainz release ID (`musicbrainz_release_id`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

MBID of a release in MusicBrainz: one edition of a release group, such as a CD, vinyl or digital release with its own date, country, label and barcode, as in musicbrainz.org/release/<id>.

- Parent datatype: `musicbrainz_id`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Media and entertainment (media)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{12}$
```

## Examples

- `4f970f09-69ed-47bd-85e6-daf19347f17a` — Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965–1968
- `B10BBBFC-CF9E-42E0-BE17-E2C3E1D2600D` (invalid example) — Upper case; MusicBrainz writes MBIDs in lower case

## Mappings

- wikidata: `P5813`

## Translations

- ru: Идентификатор релиза в MusicBrainz

## Sources

- doc: <https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Release>
- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5813>

## Quality

Score 83/100. Missing: second example, detector coverage.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/musicbrainz_release_id.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/media/musicbrainz_release_id.yaml>