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
Unplanned Downtime — It looks like the main web site has dropped off the ‘net - most likely the server has crashed. I’ve asked the good people at Digital West to reboot the server. Please bear with us… hopefully we’ll be back up soon! Update: the server is back (so it was down for just over an [...]
Posted: 2008-08-21 14:53 GMT
Bandits at high noon! — The traffic to MusicBrainz is growing steadily! (steady growth is much better than exponential growth!) We’ve recently added two more search servers, which are now humming along nicely. But now we’re seeing that our main web server is starting to get saturated, so we need to add more capacity. In order to use our existing [...]
Posted: 2008-08-18 23:00 GMT
Planned downtime for server reboot — Today we’ll be rebooting the main web server, which unfortunately means that the site will be down for a few minutes.  Should only be down for about 5 minutes or so.  Thanks in advance for your patience! Update: the server has now been rebooted.  Happy Brainzing!
Posted: 2008-08-11 21:38 GMT
New search servers — I’m happy to say that we’ve now got extra search servers - a failover pair, in fact, so we’re no longer reliant on a single search server. In fact shortly we hope to bring a third server into the pool too. Not bad considering that, so far, we’ve only ever had one (or [...]
Posted: 2008-08-08 23:29 GMT
 
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