MusicBrainz

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

MusicBrainz
Logo 2016.
Type of site
Online music encyclopedia[1]
Available inEnglish
OwnerMetaBrainz Foundation
Created byRobert Kaye
URLmusicbrainz.org
CommercialNo
RegistrationOptional (required for editing data)
Users~250,000 active ever
LaunchedJuly 17, 2000 (2000-07-17)[2]
Current statusOnline
Content license
Part Creative Commons Zero (open data) and part CC-BY-NC-SA (not open); commercial licensing available
Written inPerl with PostgreSQL database

Client software

  • AmarokKDE audio player
  • Banshee — multi-platform audio player
  • Beets — automatic CLI music tagger/organiser for Unix-like systems
  • Clementine — multi-platform audio player
  • CDexMicrosoft 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
  • JaikozJava 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.[3]

References

  1. "About". MusicBrainz. MetaBrainz. Archived from the original on 2015-05-08. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
  2. "WHOIS Lookup". ICANN. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
  3. "Freedb gateway: End of life notice, March 18, 2019". MetaBrainz Blog. 2018-09-18. Retrieved 2020-02-12.

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