MusicBrainz

MusicBrainz

Logo 2016.
Type of site	Online music encyclopedia
Available in	English
Owner	MetaBrainz Foundation
Created by	Robert Kaye
URL	musicbrainz.org
Commercial	No
Registration	Optional (required for editing data)
Users	~250,000 active ever
Launched	July 17, 2000; 26 years ago (2000-07-17)
Current status	Online
Content license	Part Creative Commons Zero (open data) and part CC-BY-NC-SA (not open); commercial licensing available
Written in	Perl with PostgreSQL database

MusicBrainz is an music database. It is similar to the freedb project that aims to start an open data music database. The database captures information about artists, their recorded works, and start the relationships between them.

Client software

• Amarok — KDE audio player
• Banshee — multi-platform audio player
• Beets — automatic CLI music tagger/organiser for Unix-like systems
• Clementine — multi-platform audio player
• CDex — Microsoft Windows CD ripper
• Demlo — a dynamic and extensible music manager using a CLI
• iEatBrainz — Mac OS X, deprecated
• foo_musicbrainz component for foobar2000 — music library/pudio Player
• Jaikoz — Java mass tag editor
• Max — Mac OS X CD ripper and audio transcoder
• Mp3tag — Windows metadata editor and music organizer
• MusicBrainz Picard — cross-platform album-oriented tag editor
• MusicBrainz Tagger — deprecated Microsoft Windows tag editor
• puddletag — a tag editor for PyQt under the GPLv3
• Rhythmbox music player — an audio player for Unix-like systems
• Sound Juicer — GNOME CD ripper
• Zortam Mp3 Media Studio — Windows music organizer and ID3 tag editor

Freedb clients could also access MusicBrainz data through the freedb protocol by using the MusicBrainz to FreeDB gateway service, mb2freedb. The gateway was shut down on March 18, 2019.

References

Other websites

Wikimedia Commons has media related to MusicBrainz.

• MusicBrainz – official site
• MusicBrainz info at the BBC Music site