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The MusicBrainz Client Library (libmusicbrainz), also known as mb_client, is a development library geared towards developers who wish to add MusicBrainz lookup capabilities to their applications. The library supports Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, with packages released for the RedHat and Debian distributions.
Version 4.x and greater supports the latest version of the MusicBrainz web service and are not backwards compatible with earlier versions. As of 2011, version 3.x and below have been deprecated.
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Documentation
For details on how to use this library, please take a look at the API documentation.
Download
libmusicbrainz-4.0.1.tar.gz (124 KB) (MD5: 3fe4e869f69dc83a4427b5d5c52580ef) |
Source code
The source code is available on GitHub and can be downloaded with:
git clone git://github.com/musicbrainz/libmusicbrainz.git
License
The MusicBrainz Client Library is licensed under the LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License).
Language Bindings
- PythonMusicBrainz2 Python bindings for the XML based web service.
- Perl bindings for the XML based web service: WebService::MusicBrainz
- Ruby bindings for the XML based web service.
- C#/.NET library for the MusicBrainz client library (3.0.1). (calculation of MusicBrainz DiscID is missing (FreeDB ID is supported) - help is appreciated).
- musicbrainz-sharp: Fully managed C#/.NET library for accessing the XML based web service. (included support for calculation of MusicBrainz DiscIDs)
Other releases are available on the MusicBrainz FTP Server.