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 Jaikoz Tag Editor [Windows, Linux, Mac OS X -- More info...]
	Download Magic MP3 Tagger [Windows -- More info...]		Download My Music Collection [Windows -- 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

Test server downtime — Our test server ( http://test.musicbrainz.org ) will be offline from Saturday 6am PDT until early afternoon on Sunday PDT. The server will be going for a nice leisurely drive up the California coast as it moves from southern california to the bustling bay area. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Posted: 2010-07-29 22:54 GMT

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Next NGS milestone: Beta 3 on 7 September — After a 3 hour bug triage session with the team we’ve managed to sort out the bugs and come up with a schedule for the next release. After looking at the number of bugs for us to tackle before the release, we felt that we really needed to have one more beta release before we [...]

Posted: 2010-07-29 21:52 GMT

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Looking for a contract programmer for C++/Python work — A soon-to-be partner of MusicBrainz is looking for an engineer for contract work. This company is looking for a person who has the following skills: Strong Python and C++ skills with experience in building applications on Windows, Linux and Mac. Open source programming experience Server programming skills a plus Solr and audio programming experience a plus Ability to be a [...]

Posted: 2010-07-28 22:46 GMT

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Downtime: Adding more RAM to our DB server — As a band-aid measure we’re going to add another 4GB of ram to our database server. This should hold us over until we migrate to NGS, when this problem should go away. In order to add more RAM to the DB server, I’m expecting a down time of about 10 minutes starting at 14:00 PDT, [...]

Posted: 2010-07-28 19:50 GMT

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