MusicBrainz
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| MusicBrainz homepage. MusicBrainz homepage | |
Type of site | Online music encyclopedia[1] |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | MetaBrainz Foundation |
| Created by | Robert Kaye |
| URL | musicbrainz |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Optional (required for editing data) |
| Users | ~250,000 active ever |
| Launched | July 17, 2000[2] |
| Current status | Online |
Content license | Part Creative Commons Zero (open data) and part CC-BY-NC-SA (not open); commercial licensing available |
| Written in | Perl with PostgreSQL database |
MusicBrainz is an music database. It is similar to the freedb project that aims to create an open data music database. The database captures information about artists, their recorded works, and create the relationships between them.
Client software
- Amarok — KDE audio player
- Banshee — multi-platform audio player
- Beets — automatic CLI music tagger/organiser for Unix-like systems
- Clementine — multi-platform audio player
- CDex — Microsoft Windows CD ripper
- Demlo — a dynamic and extensible music manager using a CLI
- iEatBrainz — Mac OS X, deprecated
- foo_musicbrainz component for foobar2000 — music library/pudio Player
- Jaikoz — Java mass tag editor
- Max — Mac OS X CD ripper and audio transcoder
- Mp3tag — Windows metadata editor and music organizer
- MusicBrainz Picard — cross-platform album-oriented tag editor
- MusicBrainz Tagger — deprecated Microsoft Windows tag editor
- puddletag — a tag editor for PyQt under the GPLv3
- Rhythmbox music player — an audio player for Unix-like systems
- Sound Juicer — GNOME CD ripper
- Zortam Mp3 Media Studio — Windows music organizer and ID3 tag editor
Freedb clients could also access MusicBrainz data through the freedb protocol by using the MusicBrainz to FreeDB gateway service, mb2freedb. The gateway was shut down on March 18, 2019.[3]
References
- ↑ "About". MusicBrainz. MetaBrainz. Archived from the original on 2015-05-08. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
- ↑ "WHOIS Lookup". ICANN. Archived from the original on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
- ↑ "Freedb gateway: End of life notice, March 18, 2019". MetaBrainz Blog. 2018-09-18. Retrieved 2020-02-12.
Other websites
Wikimedia Commons has media related to MusicBrainz.
- MusicBrainz – official site
- MusicBrainz info at the BBC Music site