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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...

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  • Open Source

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  • Online
  • Android
  • F-Droid
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about MusicBrainz, and it has gotten 199 likes

MusicBrainz was added to AlternativeTo by landroni on and this page was last updated .

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Lunatica
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open/free database; well thought. nice community. can add artwork through to art archive by internet archvie. UX/UI sucks though.

Shaz Shah
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Co-host at Radio Bros

A very detailed open database of music info to help quickly tag your music collection. I use it's Picard counterpart on my machine and it is brilliant. Really helped organise the music on my NAS drive and prepared it for streaming on Plex.

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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.

MusicBrainz is a user-maintained open community that collects, and makes available to the public, music metadata in the form of a relational database. MusicBrainz was initially created by Robert Kaye in response to Gracenote taking over the free CDDB project and charging people for access to the (what up till that point had been free) data. The MusicBrainz community has grown considerably since then, and the project has expanded its scope from being a CDDB replacement to a true "Wikipedia for music".

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