This is the old MusicBrainz site! Its been condensed into one server, so may respond less snappy. MusicBrainz classic will live for as long as this server lives. Unless you are looking for historical MusicBrainz data, you should be using the new site.

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

Search server release: 2012-05-15 — In case you haven’t gotten enough of release announcements, we have another one for you. Yesterday during the main releases we also released a new search server to match the main server release. Thanks much to Paul Taylor for working on this release to be timed perfectly! Bug [SEARCH-198] [...]

Posted: 2012-05-16 21:10 GMT

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Announcing libmusicbrainz releases 4.0.3 and 5.0.1 — Regrettably, a couple of errors were found close to the release of v4.0.2 and v5.0.0. I have just released v4.0.3 and v5.0.1 with the following changes: – Fix LMB-32 – Correctly ignore unrecognised nodes – Don’t compile using -Werror when building from tarball The releases are available: libmusicbrainz-4.0.3.tar.gz (MD5 checksum: 19b43a543d338751e9dc524f6236892b) libmusicbrainz-5.0.1.tar.gz (MD5 checksum: a0406b94c341c2b52ec0fe98f57cadf3) Documentation for [...]

Posted: 2012-05-16 20:30 GMT

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Schema change server update, 2012-05-15 — Nearly one year after we released NGS, we have another schema change update with lots of new features! This release contains 9 new features and improvements that take advantage of the new schema. These are: More social user profiles which can now have Gravatars, languages (and the users proficiency) age and country. More expressive aliases for artists, labels [...]

Posted: 2012-05-15 22:38 GMT

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Announcing libmusicbrainz4 releases 4.0.1 and 5.0.0 — Andy Hawkins says: Hi, I am pleased to announce two new versions of libmusicbrainz: libmusicbrainz-4.0.2 has been updated to take account of changes made to the server on 15th May 2012. Some interfaces are now marked as deprecated, as they have been extended during the work. Full documentation is available here: http://metabrainz.github.com/libmusicbrainz/4.0.2/ The release can be downloaded here: https://github.com/downloads/metabrainz/libmusicbrainz/libmusicbrainz-4.0.2.tar.gz (MD5 checksum 5ff62abeca00fdad1bb3a8f99065ae61) libmusicbrainz-5.0.0 [...]

Posted: 2012-05-15 21:36 GMT

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