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Title: Database

The AcoustID database includes user-submitted audio fingerprints, their mapping to
MusicBrainz IDs and some supporting tables. It follows the [structure of the
PostgreSQL database][db] used by the AcoustID server. Each table is exported in a
separate file with the tab-separated text format used by the
[`COPY` command][copy]. At the moment, there are no tools for importing the
database dump, it has to be done manually.
The main part of the AcoustID database is publicly available. That includes
user-submitted audio fingerprints, their mapping to MusicBrainz IDs and
some other mappings.

The main database is licensed under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0
Unported License][cc], with the exception of the MusicBrainz-AcoustID mapping which is
placed into the [public domain][pd].
The data is published daily, as incremental update files in JSON format,
which you can use to reconstruct the database and keep it up to udate.
The files can be downloaded [here](http://data.acoustid.org/).

Monthly database dumps can be downloaded [here](http://data.acoustid.org/).
The data is licensed under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0
Unported License][cc], with the exception of the MusicBrainz-AcoustID mapping
which can be considered [public domain][pd].

All files are signed using [GnuPG](gpg). In order to verify the signatures you have
to first import the [public key](pubkey):

$ curl http://data.acoustid.org/pubkey.txt | gpg --import -

Once you have the public key imported, you can verify the signature:

$ gpg --verify acoustid-core-dump.tar.bz2.asc
gpg: Signature made Sun Nov 20 10:17:24 2011 UTC using RSA key ID B8ED25DD
gpg: Good signature from "AcoustID Downloads <[email protected]>"

[copy]: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/sql-copy.html
[cc]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
[pd]: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/
[db]: https://github.com/acoustid/acoustid-server/blob/master/acoustid/tables.py
[gpg]: http://www.gnupg.org/
[pubkey]: http://data.acoustid.org/pubkey.txt

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