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'''MusicBrainz is a community-maintained open source encyclopedia of music information. |
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This means that anyone — including you — can [[How To Contribute|help contribute]] to the project by adding information about your favorite artists and their works. |
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[[MusicBrainz]] is a project of the US non-profit [http://metabrainz.org MetaBrainz Foundation]. |
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In 2000, Gracenote took over the free CDDB project and commercialized it, essentially charging users for accessing the very data they themselves contributed. In response, Robert Kaye founded MusicBrainz. The project has since grown rapidly from a one-man operation to an international community of enthusiasts that appreciates both music and music metadata. Along the way, the scope of the project has expanded from its origins as a mere CDDB replacement to the true music encyclopedia MusicBrainz is today. |
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As an encyclopedia and as a community, MusicBrainz exists only to collect as much information about music as we can. We do not discriminate or prefer one "type" of music over another, and we try to collect information about as many different types of music as possible. Whether it is published or unpublished, popular or fringe, western or non-western, human or non-human — we want it all in MusicBrainz. |
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[[MusicBrainz]] is a user-maintained community music metadatabase. Music metadata is information such as the artist name, the album title, and the list of tracks that appear on an album. [[MusicBrainz]] collects this information about music and makes it available to the public so that music players can retrieve information about the music that is playing. For instance, most audio CDs do not contain the name of the artist, album, or a listing of the tracks. A music player can use the digital characteristics of an audio CD to look up the correct metadata and show it to the user during playback. |
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[[MusicBrainz]] also takes this concept one step further in applying it to digital audio files like MP3 files and Ogg Vorbis files. The metadata contained in these files is often incorrect or missing altogether. If this data is not present or correct, it makes it difficult for users to find the music they wish to play. Many MP3 lovers have a huge collection of MP3 files but often have a hard time finding the music to which they want to listen. The [[MusicBrainz]] solutions for this are the [[Windows Tagger|WindowsTagger]], iEatBrainz, and the [[Picard Tagger|PicardTagger]]--Windows, MacOS X, and Python applications that use [[Acoustic Fingerprint|AcousticFingerprint]]s ([[TRM]]s) to semi-automatically identify tracks in your music collection and then write consistent and accurate metadata to your music files. |
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The [[MusicBrainz Database]] stores all of the various pieces of information we collect about music, from artists and their releases to works and their composers, and much more. '''Note:''' We do not actually store or have access to any of the music recordings! |
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The [[MusicBrainz]] web site provides a catalog of music metadata; [[MusicBrainz]] only provides the data ''about'' the music and '''not the music itself'''. [[MusicBrainz]] does not condone copyright infringement and thus cannot help you find the best place to illegally download copyrighted works. |
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Most of the data in the [[MusicBrainz Database]] is licensed under [http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0], which effectively places the data into the Public Domain. That means that anyone can [[MusicBrainz Database/Download|download the data]] and use it in any way they want. The remaining data is released under the Creative Commons [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0] license. |
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[[MusicBrainz]] users can browse and search this catalog to examine what music different artists have published and how those artists relate to each other to discover new music. The music metadata and its ability to uniquely identify music will also enable non-ambiguous communication about music, and will allow the Internet community to discover new music without any of the bias introduced by marketing departments of the recording industry. |
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All our data is available for commercial licensing. If you are interested in licensing this data for commercial use, please [[Contact Us|contact us]]. |
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Another important aspect of the web site is the creation and maintenance of the data. All of the data in [[MusicBrainz]] is user contributed and user maintained. This means that if you spot a mistake in the database, you should take the initiative to [http://www.musicbrainz.org/login.html create yourself a MusicBrainz account] (for free, of course!) and edit the data. [[MusicBrainz]] will never share your personal information with anyone and we will not spam you with anything. We believe strongly in the privacy of our users and since they are our lifeblood we would be stupid to disrespect our contributors. |
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== What can I do with MusicBrainz? == |
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Please contribute your knowledge about music and [[MusicBrainz]] will share your knowledge with others, and in time [[MusicBrainz]] can become the most powerful and comprehensive music service in existence. In return for your hard work, [[MusicBrainz]] makes the data that users have contributed [http://www.musicbrainz.org/products/server/download.html available for download] by the public. Some portions of the data are placed into the [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain Public Domain] and some portions are covered by a [[Creative Commons|CreativeCommons]] [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/1.0 license]. Please take a look at our [http://www.musicbrainz.org/products/server/download.html server/data product page]. |
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If you have a digital music collection, [[MusicBrainz Picard]] will help you tag your files. |
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This introduction serves as the most basic crash course on what [[MusicBrainz]] does. The [[MusicBrainz]] project has many goals for the future with the hopes of changing how people enjoy their music collections. The detailed current status, the plans for the future, our views on working with commercial companies and our plans for creating a non-profit corporation are covered in great detail in our [http://www.musicbrainz.org/papers/mb_nonprofit.html MusicBrainz Non-Profit White Paper]. |
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If you are a developer, our [[Developer Resources|developer resources]] will help you in making use of our data. |
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With this short introduction, we leave you to explore [[MusicBrainz]]. Welcome, and enjoy your visit! |
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If you are a commercial user, our [[Live Data Feed|live data feed]] will provide your local database with replication packets to keep it in sync. |
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== MetaBrainz Foundation == |
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MusicBrainz is operated by the [http://metabrainz.org MetaBrainz Foundation], a California based 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit corporation dedicated to keeping MusicBrainz free and open source. |
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If you feel that MusicBrainz is a worthwhile effort, please consider [http://metabrainz.org/donate donating] to help support further growth and development. |
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MusicBrainz is a community-maintained open source encyclopedia of music information. This means that anyone — including you — can help contribute to the project by adding information about your favorite artists and their works. In 2000, Gracenote took over the free CDDB project and commercialized it, essentially charging users for accessing the very data they themselves contributed. In response, Robert Kaye founded MusicBrainz. The project has since grown rapidly from a one-man operation to an international community of enthusiasts that appreciates both music and music metadata. Along the way, the scope of the project has expanded from its origins as a mere CDDB replacement to the true music encyclopedia MusicBrainz is today. As an encyclopedia and as a community, MusicBrainz exists only to collect as much information about music as we can. We do not discriminate or prefer one "type" of music over another, and we try to collect information about as many different types of music as possible. Whether it is published or unpublished, popular or fringe, western or non-western, human or non-human — we want it all in MusicBrainz. |
MusicBrainz Database
The MusicBrainz Database stores all of the various pieces of information we collect about music, from artists and their releases to works and their composers, and much more. Note: We do not actually store or have access to any of the music recordings!
Most of the data in the MusicBrainz Database is licensed under CC0, which effectively places the data into the Public Domain. That means that anyone can download the data and use it in any way they want. The remaining data is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license.
All our data is available for commercial licensing. If you are interested in licensing this data for commercial use, please contact us.
What can I do with MusicBrainz?
If you have a digital music collection, MusicBrainz Picard will help you tag your files.
If you are a developer, our developer resources will help you in making use of our data.
If you are a commercial user, our live data feed will provide your local database with replication packets to keep it in sync.
MetaBrainz Foundation
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MusicBrainz is operated by the MetaBrainz Foundation, a California based 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit corporation dedicated to keeping MusicBrainz free and open source. If you feel that MusicBrainz is a worthwhile effort, please consider donating to help support further growth and development. |
