MusicBrainz
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Type of site | Online music encyclopedia[1] |
|---|---|
| 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 | PartCreative Commons Zero(open data) and partCC-BY-NC-SA(not open); commercial licensing available |
| Written in | PerlwithPostgreSQLdatabase |
MusicBrainzis an music database. It is similar to thefreedbproject that aims to start an open data music database. The database captures information about artists, their recorded works, and start the relationships between them.
Client software
[change|change source]- Amarok—KDEaudio player
- Banshee— multi-platform audio player
- Beets — automaticCLImusic tagger/organiser for Unix-like systems
- Clementine— multi-platform audio player
- CDex—Microsoft WindowsCD ripper
- Demlo — a dynamic and extensible music manager using aCLI
- iEatBrainz —Mac OS X,deprecated
- foo_musicbrainz component forfoobar2000— music library/pudio Player
- Jaikoz—Javamass tag editor
- Max — Mac OS X CD ripper and audiotranscoder
- Mp3tag— Windows metadata editor and music organizer
- MusicBrainz Picard— cross-platform album-oriented tag editor
- MusicBrainz Tagger — deprecated Microsoft Windows tag editor
- puddletag— atag editorforPyQtunder theGPLv3
- Rhythmboxmusic player — an audio player for Unix-like systems
- Sound Juicer— GNOME CD ripper
- Zortam Mp3 Media Studio —Windowsmusic organizer and ID3 tag editor
Freedbclients 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
[change|change source]- ↑"About".MusicBrainz.MetaBrainz.Archivedfrom the original on 2015-05-08.Retrieved4 May2015.
- ↑"WHOIS Lookup".ICANN.Archivedfrom the original on 2015-04-02.Retrieved23 March2015.
- ↑"Freedb gateway: End of life notice, March 18, 2019".MetaBrainz Blog.2018-09-18.Retrieved2020-02-12.
Other websites
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Wikimedia Commons has media related toMusicBrainz.
- MusicBrainz– official site
- MusicBrainzinfo at theBBC Musicsite