MusicBrainz Metadata Provider

MusicBrainz is an open music encyclopedia that helps Music Assistant match the same artist, album, or track across your different music services. It’s a built-in provider that’s always enabled.

Features

Music Assistant can show an Artist Events recommendation row with important dates: artist birthdays, memorials (death anniversaries), band founding dates, and disbanded dates. When enabled, this recommendation row appears on your Discover page.

Events are grouped by type:

• Birthdays — Artists whose birthdays fall within the configured day window
• In Memoriam — Artists whose passing dates (death anniversaries) fall within the configured day window
• Founded — Bands/groups that were founded on dates within the window
• Disbanded — Bands/groups that disbanded on dates within the window

Configuration

The provider has one configurable setting:

• Recommendation Days (default: 3, range: 1-15) — How many days before and after today to include in the artist events recommendation row. For example, 3 days shows events from 3 days ago through 3 days ahead (7 days total window).

Choosing a window

The default 3 days is a reasonable balance:

Short windows (1–2 days):

• More focused view, only showing immediate past and upcoming events
• Reduces clutter if you have a large library with many artists
• Good for daily check-ins

Long windows (7–15 days):

• Broader time range, more artist events visible
• Useful if you have a smaller library or prefer to see the full week/fortnight ahead
• May result in a long horizontal scroll if your library has many artists with events throughout the year