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MusicBrainz aims to be a repository for all kinds of music, not just easily taggable (e.g., CD's and digital files), famous (e.g., western popular media), or recent (e.g., Top 20 lists) music.

All types of music is wanted in MusicBrainz, even your aunt's old garage band tapes—we allow bootlegs, demos, and any album or compilation that has been released. The only prerequisite is that is has been released. I.e., distributed to more people than the creator and two or three of their friends.

That means we won't allow homemade mixes with "My favourite Beatles songs" for example. But if your aunt was once in an Electro-clash band and they had a mixtape they sent out to some college radios, then made some home made CD-Rs which they distributed to people in the neighbourhood, and then nothing else because they split up when the drummer went to college: that's fine. Or if your father's best friend's neighbour was in an underground grunge band with 2 custom home made EPs released, and your father just so happened to have one of those, we want that in MusicBrainz!

Naturally we also want more official releases, so if your grandmother has a collection of The Who LPs, go ahead and add some of those too!

For this task you should look into your parents' or guardians' old music collection (ask for permission first!) and find a release that is not already in the database, and add it.

Provide a link to the edits that add the release and explain how/where you found the release.