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] Download Picard [Windows/Linux] [download] Download Magic MP3 Tagger [Windows -- More info...]
[download] Download Classic Tagger [Windows] [download] Download Jaikoz Tag Editor [Windows, Linux, Mac OS X -- More info...]
[download] Download iEatBrainz! [Mac OS X 10.3/10.4 -- 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!
Read more about MusicBrainz
To learn more about what MusicBrainz is and how it works, read on: You may also be interested in the People behind MusicBrainz, News, Support and Development sections of the web site.

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
Looking for a new style leader! — The style guideline process has been stuck in neutral for quite some time and I was hoping that Panda could take over this role from Don Redman (who had been swallowed up by real life quite some time ago), but real life is about to swallow Panda for the foreseeable future. Thus, I start the [...]
Posted: 2008-06-30 22:20 GMT
Call for search server testing — After I gave some history in the last post, I’d like to put out a call for testing for the new search server. In moving from Lucene to Xapian I’ve fixed a number of bugs, some of which have been lingering for a while. Also see the list of bugs we still have open and [...]
Posted: 2008-06-27 06:29 GMT
Search: Why is it so important? — After many days of tinkering, the new search server has passed its tests and is nearly ready for deployment next week. After my last post on the search services, there were lots of questions, so I’ll give some more history on why I’m working on this now: The old Lucene based search services worked well, but [...]
Posted: 2008-06-26 22:30 GMT
Bug tracker in read-only mode for a while — Dave was working on upgrading software on our catch-all server and ran into some problems with plugins for trac, our bug tracking system. Trac is currently up, but the plugin to log-in hasn’t been installed yet, so no one can log into track right now. Dave will continue working on this in about 8-10 hours of [...]
Posted: 2008-06-26 21:49 GMT
 
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