MusicBrainz

What is MusicBrainz?

MusicBrainz is a user-maintained open community that collects and makes available to the public a comprehensive music information database in the form of a relational database. Initially created by Robert Kaye as a response to the commercialization of the free CDDB project, MusicBrainz has since expanded its scope to become a "Wikipedia for music", providing a community-driven platform for cataloging and sharing metadata on musical artists, releases, and related data

Highlights

• Community-maintained open source database of comprehensive music information
• Provides music metadata and related information accessible through the website or via client programs
• Allows users to identify and clean up metadata tags in digital music collections using the MusicBrainz Tagger
• Serves as a user-contributed "Wikipedia for music", expanding beyond its initial purpose as a CDDB replacement