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

MusixMatch becomes our customer! — MusixMatch, a new lyrics start-up company in Bologna, Italy just signed up to be our latest customer! MusixMatch aims to license lyrics from all over the world (and not just the usual US/western Europe suspects) and aims to make accessing and licensing lyrics much easier than it currently is. I spent three days in June with [...]

Posted: 2010-08-24 22:21 GMT

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Track level Advanced Relationships for NGS — As you may know, in our Next Generation Schema release we are including support for musical Works. Our definition of a Work is a musical composition that will at some point be performed and possibly recorded, in which case it will become a Recording. In the current MusicBrainz implementation we do not have the concept [...]

Posted: 2010-08-24 22:20 GMT

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Please welcome our new Style Leader: Nikki — The MusicBrainz Style Leader has a really hard job — this position requires people to to have a thick skin, a deep understanding of MusicBrainz and the patience of a saint. Its a really challenging job! And because of this, people burn out fast and generally abandon their jobs after a while. This has been [...]

Posted: 2010-08-13 22:01 GMT

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Care to take the Android app for a spin? — Google Summer of Code is nearly over and the Android app is coming along nicely. If you want to download and try the application, here is a QR code for you: Once we’re done with debugging the application we will release it to the Market.

Posted: 2010-08-09 21:29 GMT

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