Welcome to MusicBrainz!

What is MusicBrainz?
MusicBrainz is a community music metadatabase that attempts to create a comprehensive music information site. You can use the MusicBrainz data either by browsing this web site, or you can access the data from a client program — for example, a CD player program can use MusicBrainz to identify CDs and provide information about the CD, about the artist or about related information. You can also use the MusicBrainz Tagger to automatically identify and clean up the metadata tags in your digital music collections. Find out more in the introduction.
Use MusicBrainz
You can use Musicbrainz right now to automatically identify and label your music files — all you have to do is download and run a MusicBrainz enabled tagger. Read more about our taggers.
[download] Download Picard [Windows/Linux] [download] Download Magic MP3 Tagger [Windows -- More info...]
[download] Download Classic Tagger [Windows] [download] Download Jaikoz Tag Editor [Windows, Linux, Mac OS X -- More info...]
Alternatively, you might just want to search or browse the MusicBrainz database. If you spot a mistake, or something that is missing, you can even edit or add more data!

If you're new to MusicBrainz, please take a moment to read the beginners guide before editing the database.

If you are a software developer you might want to learn about the MusicBrainz client library / SDK. You can use the library to enable your programs to access the MusicBrainz database, both for looking up data and also for submitting new data.
Be a part of MusicBrainz
Many people are needed to make MusicBrainz work. Come and take part!
Read more about MusicBrainz
To learn more about what MusicBrainz is and how it works, read on: You may also be interested in the People behind MusicBrainz, News, Support and Development sections of the web site.

News

MetaBrainz Foundation
The MetaBrainz Foundation, a California 501.(c).3 non-profit corporation, operates the MusicBrainz project. All donations to MusicBrainz are tax deductable!
MusicBrainz Blog
Reminder: Server update is coming this Sunday. And TRM are going away! — I’d like to remind everyone that the next server release is scheduled for this Sunday November 23. We’re still working on scheduling for the release, but it will happen on Sunday. Expect the MusicBrainz to be unavailable for at least 1 hour. Also, please be aware that with this release the TRM server will be decommissioned [...]
Posted: 2008-11-21 23:47 GMT
The BBC has hired a full time MusicBrainz server developer! — Thanks to the tireless efforts of Matthew Wood, the BBC has officially hired Jason Emmett to work full time on the MusicBrainz server! Jason, who will be working in the BBC offices in London will be working with Oliver to finish the port to Template Toolkit branch. After that both of them will tackle the Release [...]
Posted: 2008-11-17 23:37 GMT
Call for testing: November 23 server release — Murdos, Niklas, Luks, Dave Evans and I have all been working on the upcoming server release and we would like to invite you to help us test this massive release. Most of the features for this release have been debugged, but a few bugs are still outstanding. The test server has been updated with all of [...]
Posted: 2008-11-12 00:54 GMT
One more feature from good measure: CD Stubs — The final feature to be included in the upcoming release are CD Stubs. From the documentation page: Many times people would like to contribute CD data to MusicBrainz, but would prefer to not learn to be part of MusicBrainz. These people would rather just toss some data into a pile and go on with their lives [...]
Posted: 2008-11-12 00:39 GMT
 
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