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Current allowed value sets

The current version of the allowed value sets is 011.

The XSD of this version of the allowed value sets was published on 22nd December 2025 and can be found at http://ddex.net/xml/allowed-value-sets/allowed-value-sets.xsd.

The data dictionary edition for these allowed value sets is available here.

Changes to allowed values between version 010 and 011

Additions into the UseType AVS the following values: BroadcastRadio, BroadcastTV, AdvertisingRadio, AdvertisingTV, and LiveStream.

BGN was moved from IsoCurrencyCode to DeprecatedCurrencyCode.

DisplayArtistRole_RDR allowed value set was removed (it was included erroneously).

Changes to allowed values between version 009 and 010

Additions to Activity AVS:
- Beach, Bar, BoatCruise, Carnival, Chill, Christmas, CityLife, CocktailBar, ComingHome, Commute, CountryLife, Cozy, Darkness, DayDream (replaces Daydream), Diwali, DoingChores, EasyMorning, Eid, Enchanted, EndYearHoliday, ExtremeSport, FallingInLove, FamilyLife, FridayNight, Glamour, Halloween, Hanukkah, Heartache, High, Jealous, LateAtNight, LatinCarnival, Morning, MotorRacing, Nostalgia, Office, Optimism, Parade, Pride, Promise, Protest, RainyDay, Rebellion, Reflection, ReligiousCelebration, Rodeo, Romantic, RomanticDinner, Sad, SeizeTheDay, Sleep, SoothingBaby, Sunrise, Surprise, Suspense, Unobtrusive and WeddingParty;
Additions to Mood AVS:
- Afraid, Aggressive, Anticipating (replaces Anticipation), Bitter, Calm, Cerebral, Depressed, Disgusting (replaces Disgust), Dreaming, Fragile, Friendly, Funny, Glamorous, Heroic, Humorous, Impulsive, Innocent, Lively, Meditative, Melodramatic, Motivating (replaces Motivated), Nourishing, Passionate, Playful, Rebellious, Revitalizing, Sensual, Shy, Suspenseful, Swaggering (replaces Swagger) and WarmHearted;
Additions to Theme AVS:
- Bar (replaces Bars), Birthday, BoatCruise, CircleOfLife, Darkness(AbsenceOfLight), Darkness(Atmosphere), DayDream (replaces Daydream), Depressed, Diwali, DrugAbuse, DrugUse, EasyMorning, Eid, Enchanted, EndYearHoliday, FallingInLove, Glamour, Hanukkah, Humor, Impulsive, LateAtNight, LatinCarnival, LGBTQ, MotorRacing, Reflection (replaced Reflect), ReligiousCelebration, RomanticDinner, RunningLate, SeizeTheDay, SoothingBaby and Suspense. Darkness is replaced by Darkness(AbsenceOfLight), Darkness(Atmosphere). Also removed (because other values covers the aspect) were Defeated, Free and Magician.

In addition, the RecordingPartType AVS was added back. It was erroneously removed from version 009.

Changes to allowed values between version 008 and 009

Added Allowed Value Set: ClaimImpact;
Added Allowed Value Set: ProfileId_CDM;
Added Allowed Value into CurrencyCode: XAD;
Added Allowed Value into FingerprintAlgorithmType: ISCC;
Added Allowed Value into CurrencyCode: XAD;
Added Allowed Value into FingerprintAlgorithmType: ISCC;
Added Allowed Value into InstrumentType: Klavier;
Added Allowed Value into InstrumentType: Mbira;
Added Allowed Value into InstrumentType: Tamtam;
Added Allowed Value into InstrumentType: Ruan;
Added Allowed Value into InstrumentType: ViolaDaGamba;
Added Allowed Value into InstrumentType: OndesMartenot;
Added Allowed Value into InstrumentType: Sampler;
Added Allowed Value into InstrumentType: Theremin;
Added Allowed Value into InstrumentType: BassOboe;
Added Allowed Value into InstrumentType: Harmonium;
Added Allowed Value into IsoCurrencyCode: XAD;
Added Allowed Value into MusicalWorkType: FilmProductionWork;
Added Allowed Value into MusicalWorkType: Jingle;
Added Allowed Value into MusicalWorkType: UnspecifiedLyricAdaptation;
Added Allowed Value into ResourceContributorRole: Mime;
Added Allowed Value into RightsCoverage_MWDR: InformationNetworkDisseminationRight;
Added Allowed Value into RightsCoverage_MWDR: RentalRight;
Added Allowed Value into UseType: UseForTrainingGenerativeAI;
Added Allowed Value into UseType: UseForTrainingNonGenerativeAI;
Added Allowed Value into UseType_ERN: UseForTrainingGenerativeAI;
Added Allowed Value into UseType_ERN: UseForTrainingNonGenerativeAI;
Added Allowed Value into UseType_ERN: UseForTrainingGenerativeAI; and
Added Allowed Value into UseType_ERN: UseForTrainingNonGenerativeAI.

Changes to allowed values between version 007 and 008

Added Allowed Value into CurrencyCode: XCG;
Added Allowed Value into DeprecatedCurrencyCode: ANG;
Added Allowed Value into DeprecatedCurrencyCode: SLL;
Added Allowed Value into IsoCurrencyCode: XCG; and
Added Allowed Value into RecordingFormat: OfficialMusicVideo.

Changes to allowed values between version 006 and 007

The following new allowed value sets were added to support MWN 1.3:

Added Allowed Value Set: ProfileId_MWDR;
Added Allowed Value Set: RevocationReason;
Added Allowed Value Set: RightShareType_MWDR;
Added Allowed Value Set: TextMusicRelationshipType;
Added Allowed Value Set: VersionType_MWDR;
Added Allowed Value Set: WorkPart; and
Added Allowed Value Set: WorkRelationshipType_MWDR.

The following allowed value sets were added in addition:

Added Allowed Value into AudioVisualType: MiniSeries;
Added Allowed Value into AudioVisualType: Series;
Added Allowed Value into AudioVisualType: SpecialTopic;
Added Allowed Value into DeprecatedCurrencyCode: CUC;
Added Allowed Value into DeprecatedCurrencyCode: ZWL;
Added Allowed Value into MessageType: MusicalWorkClaimNotificationRecallMessage;
Added Allowed Value into MessageType: MusicalWorkClaimRequestRecallMessage; and
Added Allowed Value into RightsCoverage_MWDR: LyricsRight.

Changes to allowed values between version 005 and 006

The following new allowed values were added:

Added Allowed Value Set: ArAcknowledgementStatus;
Added Allowed Value Set: ArActionType;
Added Allowed Value Set: ArMessageType;
Added Allowed Value Set: Blockchain;
Added Allowed Value Set: Confidentiality;
Added Allowed Value Set: ConsumerEngagementAnomalyType;
Added Allowed Value Set: ContainsAI;
Added Allowed Value Set: DisplayArtistRole_RDR;
Added Allowed Value Set: NftConfirmationStatus;
Added Allowed Value Set: ParentalWarningStandard;
Added Allowed Value Set: ProfileType;
Added Allowed Value Set: RecipientRevenueType_RDR;
Added Allowed Value Set: ReleaseType_DSR;
Added Allowed Value Set: ReportMessageType;
Added Allowed Value Set: ResourceType_CustomSet;
Added Allowed Value Set: ResponseType;
Added Allowed Value Set: RightsClaimPolicyReason;
Added Allowed Value Set: RightsCoverage_MWDR;
Added Allowed Value Set: SpecialContributorType;
Added Allowed Value Set: UseType_AR;
Added Allowed Value Set: UseType_BWARM;
Added Allowed Value into CurrencyCode: ZWG;
Added Allowed Value into Iso639Part3LanguageCode: gcf;
Added Allowed Value into Iso639Part3LanguageCode: jam;
Added Allowed Value into Iso639Part3LanguageCode: kfy;
Added Allowed Value into Iso639Part3LanguageCode: mcm;
Added Allowed Value into Iso639Part3LanguageCode: mup;
Added Allowed Value into Iso639Part3LanguageCode: tcy;
Added Allowed Value into IsoCurrencyCode: ZWG;
Added Allowed Value into IsoLanguageCode: gcf;
Added Allowed Value into IsoLanguageCode: jam
Added Allowed Value into IsoLanguageCode: kfy;
Added Allowed Value into IsoLanguageCode: mcm;
Added Allowed Value into IsoLanguageCode: mup;
Added Allowed Value into IsoLanguageCode: tcy;
Added Allowed Value into ResourceType_RDR: None;
Added Allowed Value into RevenueSourceType: PaymentFromUnclaimedRevenue;
Added Allowed Value into RevenueSourceType: UserDefined;
Added Allowed Value into RightShareType: CopyrightControlShare;
Added Allowed Value into TextCodecType: DdexLyricsFile;
Added Allowed Value into UseType: UseForDataMining;
Added Allowed Value into UseType: UseForNonGenerativeAI;
Added Allowed Value into UseType_DSR: UseForUgcCreation;
Added Allowed Value into UseType_ERN: UseForDataMining;
Added Allowed Value into UseType_ERN: UseForNonGenerativeAI;
Added Allowed Value into UseType_RDR: UseForDataMining;
Added Allowed Value into UseType_RDR: UseForNonGenerativeAI;
Added Allowed Value into LinkDescription: Booklet;
Added Allowed Value into LinkDescription: Caption;
Added Allowed Value into LinkDescription: ChapterImage;
Added Allowed Value into LinkDescription: Lyrics; and
Added Allowed Value into LinkDescription: SubTitle.

Changes to allowed values between version 004 and 005

The following new allowed values were added:

Added Allowed Value into ContributorRole: ImmersiveMasteringEngineer;
Added Allowed Value into ContributorRole_RDR: ImmersiveMasteringEngineer;
Added Allowed Value into DisplayArtistRole: Brand;
Added Allowed Value into DisplayArtistRole: UserDefined;
Added Allowed Value into ReleaseRelationshipType: IsEditedVersionOf;
Added Allowed Value into ReleaseRelationshipType: IsSlowedDownOf;
Added Allowed Value into ReleaseRelationshipType: IsSourceOfEditedVersion;
Added Allowed Value into ReleaseRelationshipType: IsSpedUpOf;
Added Allowed Value into ResourceContributorRole: ImmersiveMasteringEngineer;
Added Allowed Value into ResourceRelationshipType: IsEditedVersionOf;
Added Allowed Value into ResourceRelationshipType: IsSlowedDownOf;
Added Allowed Value into ResourceRelationshipType: IsSourceOfEditedVersion;
Added Allowed Value into ResourceRelationshipType: IsSpedUpOf;
Added Allowed Value into UseType: UseForGenerativeAI;
Added Allowed Value into UseType_ERN: UseForGenerativeAI; and
Added Allowed Value into UseType_RDR: UseForGenerativeAI.

The following values were re-introduced as they had been removed erroneously in an earlier version:

Added Allowed Value into DataCarrierType: Dvd+RwRewritableOpticalDiskSingleSided_SingleLayer_12cm;
Added Allowed Value into HashSumAlgorithmType: MD4(MLNET);
Added Allowed Value into InstrumentType: BassDrum(Concert);
Added Allowed Value into InstrumentType: BassDrum(Kick);
Added Allowed Value into InstrumentType: Cymbal(Crash);
Added Allowed Value into InstrumentType: Cymbal(Ride);
Added Allowed Value into InstrumentType: Cymbal(Suspended);
Added Allowed Value into InstrumentType: SnareDrum(Marching);
Added Allowed Value into InstrumentType: Tar(Percussion);
Added Allowed Value into InstrumentType: Tar(String);
Added Allowed Value into PartyNameFormat: Abbreviation;
Added Allowed Value into PartyNameFormat: AsciiTranscribed;
Added Allowed Value into TextType: ClosedCaption;
Added Allowed Value into TextType: SubTitle;
Added Allowed Value into UnitOfFrameRate: Hz(interlaced); and
Added Allowed Value into UnitOfFrameRate: Hz(non-interlaced).

Changes to allowed values between version 003 and 004

There are additional values in the AdditionalTitleType AVS as follows:
- MusicalWorkTitle which enables the communication of a musical work title in addition to the title of the recording in. It is primarily for use in the ERN messages; and
- TranslatedTitle and TransliteratedTitle which enable better support for multi-language and multi-script messaging using ERN;
The values of TranslatedTitle and TransliteratedTitle have been added to TitleType to enable better support for multi-language and mulit-script messaging using the BWARM and MEAD standards;
The values of ProfilePicture and SocialBannerImage have been added to ImageType to enable better support of the description of images on social media sites, using ERN;
A number of values for territory codes have been updated including for example, changing Turkey to Türkiye and Cote D'Ivoire to Côte d'Ivoire; and
The currency for Croatia which has been replaced by the Euro, the Kuna, which has the code HRK, has been moved into DeprecatedCurrencyCode allowed value set.

Older allowed value sets

Older AVS XSDs can be accessed from http://ddex.net/xml/allowed-value-sets/allowed-value-sets_xxx.xsd where xxx is the old zero padded version number. This only applies for XSDs that were published from 2021 onwards.