MusicBrainz Server
==================

MusicBrainz Server is the web frontend to the MusicBrainz Database
and is accessible at http://musicbrainz.org.

MusicBrainz is a user-maintained open community that collects music metadata
and makes it available to the public in the form of a relational database.
For more information, [visit our website](http://musicbrainz.org/doc/About).

To get help, please join #musicbrainz-devel on irc.freenode.net

Installation
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Full installation instructions are available in [INSTALL.md](INSTALL.md).

General Prerequisites:

* Ubuntu/Debian
* Perl (at least version 5.10.1)
* PostgreSQL (at least version 9.1)
* Memcached

Reporting bugs
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Please report issues on our [bug tracker](http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/).

Contributing
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Please submit all patches to [bitbucket](http://bitbucket.org/metabrainz/musicbrainz-server/pull-requests) for review.

License
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MusicBrainz Server is released under the GPLv2. See COPYING.

Further reading
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* [MusicBrainz Server](http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Server)
* [MusicBrainz Database](http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Database)
* [Database Schema](http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Database/Schema)