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 MusicBrainz Picard [Windows/Linux/Mac OS X]		Download Magic MP3 Tagger [Windows -- More info...]
	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!

Please download and use Picard. By doing so, you will be using and adding to the MusicBrainz database.
Search or browse the MusicBrainz data for your favourite artists, or for your favourite releases.
If you spot something that is wrong, poorly entered or just plain missing, please register and log in so you can edit the data.

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

mb_server is now hosted on Git — Today we are officially marking the transition of mb_server (that’s the code name for the MusicBrainz Server – the website) from Subversion to Git. This is now hosted at git.musicbrainz.org, and the “musicbrainz-server/core.git” repository contains the stable and unstable development branches (named master and next, respectively). If you are just interested in setting up MusicBrainz locally, [...]

Posted: 2010-02-08 22:37 GMT

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Sorry for the downtime! — Hi folks, just a quick announcement – our main web server frontend had some minor problems earlier, but we’ve since sorted it out. It seems to have only effected the web frontend, and not other services such as the web service. We’re back up now though!

Posted: 2010-02-01 13:19 GMT

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Testing the NGS live data feed — If anyone would like to test out the NGS replication, which I’ve setup from the test server, follow these instructions: Download and install the mb_server source code from SVN trunk. Follow these instructions. Set your server type in DBDefs.pm to RT_SLAVE Download and import this dataset. Insert this required row into the database, using our psql program: cd /admin ./psql READWRITE insert [...]

Posted: 2010-01-29 19:08 GMT

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Database on test server updated — The database on the test server has been updated with the latest data and search indexes to match the latest work that ijabz’ has done. This update was in preparation for testing the replication system, which I’ll invite the general public to try in a few hours. IMPORTANT NOTE: The passwords on the test server are [...]

Posted: 2010-01-29 10:06 GMT

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