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Searches on MusicBrainz Gemini support the advanced query syntax. MusicBrainz' search is based on the Lucene text search engine and supports its query language.
search artist, sortname and alias fields
search for the word electronic in artist disambiguation (comment) fields
search for all groups formed in 1984
search for all Café del Mar albums
"the understanding" AND artist:royksopp
search for the album The Understanding by the artist Röyksopp
date:1999 AND country:de AND rock
search for releases from Germany in 1999 with the word rock in them
search for recordings with the title amadeus from albums
will retrieve A Day In The Life
will retrieve Life In A Day
will retrieve This Day
will retrieve That's Life
will retrieve A Day In The Life
will retrieve Life In A Day
will not retrieve This Day
will not retrieve That's Life
will retrieve A Day In The Life
will not retrieve Life In A Day
will not retrieve This Day
will not retrieve That's Life
"voodoo people" AND artist:"the prodigy"
search for all recordings with the title Voodoo People by the artist The Prodigy
To perform a single character wildcard search use the "?" symbol. To perform a multiple character wildcard search use the "*" symbol. For example, to search for "text" or "test" you can use the search te?t, to search for "test", "tests" or "tester", you can use the search test*.
Note: You cannot use a * or ? symbol as the first character of a search.
To do a fuzzy search use the tilde, "~", symbol at the end of a single word term. Optionally can specify the required similarity, a value is between 0 and 1. For example to search for a term similar in spelling to "roam" use the fuzzy search roam~ or roam~0.8
You can use regular expressions in your searches. For that you should put the expression between forward slashes (/regex/). Regular expression search generally searches only inside each token (word), so you cannot search for combinations of words as a regular expression. For an example, to find releases credited to either of the two common transliterations of Сергей Рахманинов, "Rachmaninov" and "Rachmaninoff", you can pass artist:/Rachmanino(ff|v)/ to the release search.
For a full description of the search syntax and the available search fields see the official MusicBrainz documentation: