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 Tagger [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

Picard 0.12.1 hotfix release — Picard 0.12.1 is an important hotfix release. Due to a bug Picard 0.12 deletes all ID3 comment tags (COMM frames) when saving files. In addition this release restores the native file dialog when adding folders on Windows. Picard 0.12.1 is available for download for Windows and Linux. Sorry for the trouble.

Posted: 2009-11-01 19:12 GMT

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New server image for 2009-05-24 release available — The VMWare image has been updated for the 2009-05-24 server release. The previous image was getting old and updating steps have been reported not easy. The new image has been upgraded to Debian 5.0, includes a more recent Linux kernel and uses PosgreSQL 8.3 (the required version to work on NGS). To download and play with the [...]

Posted: 2009-10-30 10:44 GMT

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Music Hack Day Boston: Would you like to represent MusicBrainz? — The fabulous Music Hack Day is happening in Boston on November 21-22. Sadly, I will be in London/Hamburg that weekend and can’t make it to Boston. The organizers have requested that we have someone represent MusicBrainz at the hack day. Are there any MusicBrainzers who live in/near Boston who would like to go to the [...]

Posted: 2009-10-26 22:32 GMT

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Picard 0.12 — We have released the next version of MusicBrainz Picard. Picard 0.12 includes a lot of bug fixes and new features, including: Support for ratings and folksonomy tags. Live syntax checking for tagger script and naming strings. Embed cover art into WMA and APEv2 tags. New script functions $matchedtracks(), $initials(), $firstalphachar(), $truncate() and $firstwords() New plugin extension point ui_init, allowing plugins [...]

Posted: 2009-10-26 20:03 GMT

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