# \#messybrainz

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## [About the MetaBrainz category](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/about-the-metabrainz-category/37)

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**Author:** [@Freso](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Freso)\
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:metabrainz: :coverartarchive: :messybrainz: This is the category for generic MetaBrainz related topics, including topics for projects that do not currently have their own category. Note that you can reach all of the Met…

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## [Where does MessyBrainz data come from?](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/where-does-messybrainz-data-come-from/580232)

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**Author:** [@Alch\_Emi](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Alch_Emi)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [April 10, 2022, 7:32pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/where-does-messybrainz-data-come-from/580232 "2022-04-10T19:32:16Z")

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Heya! I recently got into MusicBrainz editing through ListenBrainz, when I saw that some of my favorite tracks (which have pretty small audiences) weren’t submitting correctly because they lacked MusicBrainz entries. I…

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## [Messybrainz cleanup proposal - api's and bots](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/messybrainz-cleanup-proposal-apis-and-bots/399827)

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**Author:** [@dns\_server](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/dns_server)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [September 29, 2018, 2:26pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/messybrainz-cleanup-proposal-apis-and-bots/399827 "2018-09-29T14:26:20Z")

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Messybrainz is a database with a title string and a artists string. To help clean up things I would like messybrainz to be bot friendly and to start using other sites to improve matches. Musicbrainz has links to other …

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## [What exactly is MessyBrainz?](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/what-exactly-is-messybrainz/367185)

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**Author:** [@ijabz](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/ijabz)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [March 19, 2018, 4:34pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/what-exactly-is-messybrainz/367185 "2018-03-19T16:34:18Z")

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The website says MessyBrainz is a MetaBrainz project to support unclean metadata. While MusicBrainz is designed to link clean metadata to stable identifiers, there is a need to identify unclean or misspelled data as we…