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This is a list of applications that have [[MusicBrainz]] support built in:
This is a list of applications that have MusicBrainz support built in:


==Open Source Applications==
== Taggers ==


The following taggers will tag your music files with MusicBrainz data.
===MusicBrainz Picard===


;MusicBrainz Picard
[[MusicBrainz Picard]] is a cross platform (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows) album oriented MusicBrainz tagger with support for acoustic fingerprinting of MP3, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4 and WMA formats.
:[[MusicBrainz Picard]] is a cross platform (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows) album oriented MusicBrainz tagger with support for acoustic fingerprinting of MP3, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4 and WMA formats.


; Jaikoz
===MusicBrainz Tagger (Classic)===
: [[Jaikoz]] is a cross platform tagger written in Java enabling you to use it on Windows, UNIX and Mac OS X. It has been designed for managing large music collections. It uses a spreadsheet view to allow you to edit information quickly and provides many auto-matching and auto-formatting tasks that do much of the work for you. Jaikoz currently supports tagging of MP3 files with all versions of ID3; other formats will be added in the future.


:Jaikoz integrates with MusicBrainz by allowing the metadata in your files to be automatically updated, whilst giving you full control over the changes you make. More information and a free 1 month trial is available from [http://www.jaikoz.net/ http://www.jaikoz.net/]. ''Jaikoz is a part of the [[Tagger Affiliate Program]] and pays 10% of each purchase to MusicBrainz.''
[[Classic Tagger]] was our first tagger that supported TRM-based acoustic fingerprinting, WAV, MP3, FLAC and Ogg Vorbis formats. This tagger is track oriented, has limited UNICODE support and runs on Windows only. This version is no longer supported, and no active development or bug fixes are being made on it. As of May 2011, it stopped working completely. Users should migrate to Picard or one of the other options on this list.


; Magic MP3 Tagger
===Amarok===
: [[Magic MP3 Tagger]] was designed to enable easy and effective renaming of audio files. This is done by
:* checking the available tag,
:* automatically interpreting the file and folder names,
:* selecting the most reliable data from the tags, file and folder names,
:* validating and completing the tags by cross-checking the songs with an internal music database.


:Magic Mp3 Tagger uses MusicBrainz to find its data, has many different options, recursive processing of folders, and a clear and easy to use interface. Further information is available at [http://www.magic-tagger.com/ http://www.magic-tagger.com/]. ''Magic MP3 Tagger is a part of the [[Tagger Affiliate Program]] and pays 10% of every purchase to MusicBrainz.''
[http://amarok.kde.org AmaroK] is a music player for KDE. It supports many multimedia frameworks (like GStreamer, XINE, and aRts) to play music media and streams, and features a fresh and efficient approach to playlist handling. The emphasis is on the quick and easy user interface, allowing for fast access to the media library. Amarok versions 1.1 through 1.4 supported lookups via [[MusicBrainz]][http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/809-Missing-features-in-Amarok-2.html ^].


; Flactag
===aRanger===
: [http://www.gently.org.uk/flactag/ Flactag] is a linux console based tagger for single album FLAC files with embedded CUE sheets. The tags are downloaded from the MusicBrainz service and can be written to the FLAC file as Vorbis comments. Once tagged, the file can be renamed based on a 'template' naming scheme.


; Kitsune
[http://aranger.sourceforge.net/ aRanger] aims at organizing mp3 files automatically for you. The idea is that you should be able to run the script on a large amount of files to get them organized in a consistent manner according to your desires.
: [http://platen-software.de/kitsune/ kitsune] is a free player/tagger for Japanese and Russian music. It supports MusicBrainz lookup for artists and recordings, and will only scrobble to last.fm if a correct name was found in MusicBrainz. It will use [http://oxygene.sk/lukas/2010/07/introducing-chromaprint/ chromaprint] to identify music from a Japanese web radio station or anime related music.


; Mp3tag
===Audacious===
: [http://www.mp3tag.de/en Mp3tag] is a powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit metadata (ID3, Vorbis Comments and APE) of common audio formats. It can rename files based on the tag information, replace characters or words from tags and filenames, import/export tag information, create playlists and more. The program supports online freedb database lookups for selected files, allowing you to automatically gather proper tag information for select files or CDs.


== Media libraries ==
[http://audacious-media-player.org/ Audacious Media Player] is a fork of beep-media-player. Last.fm plugin comes with most installation flavours, but you might have to compile the player yourself. Supports playlists, audio CD and a variety of digital formats including FLAC, OGG and so on.


The following music library managers can tag your files with MusicBrainz data.
===Banshee===


; Amarok
[http://banshee-project.org/ Banshee] is an audio management and playback application for the GNOME Desktop, allowing users to import audio from CDs, search their library, create playlists of selections of their library, sync music to/from iPods, and burn selections to a CD.
: [http://amarok.kde.org Amarok] is a music player for KDE. It supports many multimedia frameworks (like GStreamer, XINE, and aRts) to play music media and streams, and features a fresh and efficient approach to playlist handling. The emphasis is on the quick and easy user interface, allowing for fast access to the media library. Amarok versions 1.1 through 1.4.x supported lookups via MusicBrainz [http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/809-Missing-features-in-Amarok-2.html], and versions starting from 2.4 support it again [http://amarok.kde.org/en/releases/2.4.0].


; Banshee
===beets===
: [http://banshee-project.org/ Banshee] is an audio management and playback application for the GNOME Desktop, allowing users to import audio from CDs, search their library, create playlists of selections of their library, sync music to/from iPods, and burn selections to a CD.


; beets
[http://beets.radbox.org/ beets] is a flexible command-line music library manager written in Python. It includes a tag corrector and album art downloader that use MusicBrainz as their backend.
: [http://beets.radbox.org/ beets] is a flexible command-line music library manager written in Python. It includes a tag corrector and album art downloader that use MusicBrainz as their backend.


; Clementine
===BMPx===
: [http://www.clementine-player.org/ Clementine] is a multiplatform music player. It is inspired by Amarok 1.4, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and playing your music.


; foobar2000
[http://bmpx.beep-media-player.org/ BMPx] is a media player that features support for specifications like XDS DnD, XSPF and DBus. BMPx is highly interoperable and integrates well with other applications and a variety of desktop environments.
: [http://www.foobar2000.org/ foobar2000] is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Some of its features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats. Support for MusicBrainz has been added with [http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_musicbrainz foo_musicbrainz] and it can use MusicBrainz data to tag media files and audio CDs.


; MusicBee
===CDex===
: [http://getmusicbee.com/ MusicBee] is a MusicBee is a free digital media player and media library application for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems using the BASS Audio Library [http://www.un4seen.com/bass.html].


; Rhythmbox
[http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/index.html CDex] is a Windows CD ripper with support for tagging files using MusicBrainz metadata (added in version 1.70 beta 2).
: [http://www.gnome.org/projects/rhythmbox/ Rhythmbox] is an integrated music management application, originally inspired by Apple's iTunes. It is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop, and based on the powerful GStreamer media framework.


===cdINFO Tool===
== CD rippers ==


The following programs will rip your CDs and automatically use MusicBrainz to tag the new files.
[http://gadgets.intelligroup.eu/cdinfo.htm cdINFO Tool] is a (free) "Windows Sidebar" Gadget allows you to quickly search album information from your Windows desktop. Mainly for use as a quick reference. Created by [http://gadgets.intelligroup.eu Intelligroup Ltd].


; Sound Juicer
===Clementine===
: [http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/sound-juicer Sound Juicer] is a clean, mean, and lean CD ripper for GNOME 2. It sports a clean interface and simple preferences, aiming to do The Right Thing and What You Mean all of the time. It requires GNOME 2.14 and GStreamer 0.10. Sound Juicer is shipped with Ubuntu.


; X Lossless Decoder
[http://www.clementine-player.org/ Clementine] is a multiplatform music player. It is inspired by Amarok 1.4, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and playing your music.
: [http://tmkk.pv.land.to/xld/index_e.html X Lossless Decoder] (XLD) is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding. It works on Mac OS X 10.4 and later.

===dcd===

[http://dcdplayer.sourceforge.net/ dcd] is a command line CD player for linux. It supports playlists and the usual features a CD player typically has.

===Domo===

[http://domo.sourceforge.net/ Domo] is a music organizer which indexes digital audio sources (cda,mp3,ogg,wma dirs/CD's, csv,pls,b4s (xml),m3u,txt playlists), extracts all possible information and inserts everything into a MySQL database.

===Flactag===

[http://www.gently.org.uk/flactag/ Flactag] is a linux console based tagger for single album FLAC files with embedded CUE sheets. The tags are downloaded from the [[MusicBrainz]] service and can be written to the FLAC file as Vorbis comments. Once tagged, the file can be renamed based on a 'template' naming scheme.

===GCstar===

[http://www.gcstar.org/ GCstar] is a free (GNU GPL) application for managing personal collections. For music collections, it could use [[MusicBrainz]] to get information about an album based on album title or artist name. This application is multi-platform. GNU/Linux, *BSD and Microsoft systems are supported. Some users also installed it on MacOS X.

===iEatBrainz===

[[iEatBrainz|IEatBrainz]] is a Mac OS X tagger to fix your MP3 and AAC tags in iTunes after they've been ripped using acoustic matchings. Requires Mac OS X 10.3 and iTunes 4.0.

===JuK===

[http://developer.kde.org/~wheeler/juk.html JuK] is a KDE based media player that has support for looking files up at MusicBrainz, but lacks support for submitting information back to MusicBrainz.

===JMP3Renamer===

[http://jmp3renamer.sourceforge.net/jmp3renamer JMP3Renamer] is a plugin-based renamer/tagger written in Java. It supports automatical assignment of the data to the files and magic cookies to specify the filename format. Currently available plugins: FreeDB, Filename, Filetag, Manual Input, Mp3, Ogg, MusicBrainz.

===Kitsune===
[http://platen-software.de/kitsune/ kitsune] is a free player/tagger for Japanese and Russian music. It supports MusicBrainz lookup for artists and recordings, and will only scrobble to last.fm if a correct name was found in MusicBrainz. It will use [http://oxygene.sk/lukas/2010/07/introducing-chromaprint/ chromaprint] to identify music from a Japanese web radio station or anime related music.

===KTag===

[http://b1project.com/ktag.php3 KTag] is a KDE tool for easy audio tags edition of MP3 and OGG files. KTag supports pictures embeded in ID3V2 tags and comes with a KDE service plugin which can use this picture in Konqueror file preview.

===Max===

[http://sbooth.org/Max/ Max] is an open source CD ripper for Mac OS that uses [[MusicBrainz]] to look up metadata.

===Moosak===

[http://ambient.2y.net/moosak/index.html Moosak] an alpha quality Gnome audio app (written in Python)

===MP3Cat===

[http://tellini.info/software/mp3cat MP3Cat] is a MP3 tool to tag and organize large collections of MP3s.

===NotMD===

[http://notmd.sourceforge.net/ NotMD] facilitates the transfer of music onto various devices: Initially aimed at MiniDiscs exclusively, NotMD's latest code provides an abstract framework to support more or less any music device with the help of easily written drivers.

===Pinky Tagger===

[http://pinkytagger.sourceforge.net/ Pinky Tagger] is a program for editing and mass tagging music file tags for Linux.

===Quod Libet===

[http://www.sacredchao.net/quodlibet Quod Libet] is a GTK+-based audio player written in Python. It's designed around the idea that you know better than we do how to organize your music. It lets you make playlists based on regular expressions (don't worry, regular searches work too). It lets you display and edit any tags you want in the file. And it lets you do this for all the file formats it supports.

===QMBTagger===

[http://qmbtagger.sourceforge.net/ QMBTagger] is QT based MP3 Tagging application.

===Quick Namer===

[http://phonascus.sourceforge.net/ QuickNamer] is made for the music interested witch want to do something about his/her unorganized mp3 collection with ease! It's very simple, just drag the music-files to QuickNamer and it will connect to internet and receive information about the music automatically, just like [[Mood Logic|MoodLogic]].

===Rhythmbox===

[http://www.gnome.org/projects/rhythmbox/ Rhythmbox] is an integrated music management application, originally inspired by Apple's iTunes. It is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop, and based on the powerful GStreamer media framework.

===Sound Juicer===

[http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/sound-juicer Sound Juicer] is a clean, mean, and lean CD ripper for GNOME 2. It sports a clean interface and simple preferences, aiming to do The Right Thing and What You Mean all of the time. It requires GNOME 2.14 and GStreamer 0.10. Sound Juicer is shipped with Ubuntu.

===TuneTagger===

[http://tunetagger.sourceforge.net/ TuneTagger] is a text based Python tagging application. A GUI for this application is coming shortly.

===Zinf===

[http://zinf.sf.net/ Zinf] (formerly FreeAmp) is text and graphical mp3 player for windows and linux. It uses MusicBrainz to look up Audio CDs.

===Zombie===

[http://beos.bong.com.au/?project=11 Zombie] is a tagger for BeOS / Zeta.

==Freeware/Closed Source Applications==

===foobar2000===

[http://www.foobar2000.org/ foobar2000] is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats. Functionality can be extended using many available plugins; one of them, [http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_musicbrainz foo_musicbrainz], uses data from [[MusicBrainz]] to tag media files and Audio CDs by Disc ID lookup (before eventually ripping it).

===Mp3tag===

[http://www.mp3tag.de/en Mp3tag] is a powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit metadata (ID3, Vorbis Comments and APE) of common audio formats. It can rename files based on the tag information, replace characters or words from tags and filenames, import/export tag information, create playlists and more. The program supports online freedb database lookups for selected files, allowing you to automatically gather proper tag information for select files or CDs.

===MusicBee===
[http://getmusicbee.com/ MusicBee] is a MusicBee is a free digital media player and media library application for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems using the BASS Audio Library [http://www.un4seen.com/bass.html].

===Rapid Evolution 3===
[http://www.mixshare.com/software.html Rapid Evolution] is an advanced harmonic music library tool for DJs, designed to be used while you mix. It helps profile your songs by saving important properties, such as the BPM, key, time signature, styles, comments, and more.

===Rapid Tagger===
[http://www.williamharvey.com/rapidtagger/ Rapid Tagger] is a free tagger for the Windows platform.

==Shareware/Commercial Applications==

The following applications are part of the [[Tagger Affiliate Program|TaggerAffiliateProgram]]:

===Jaikoz MP3 Tag Editor===

[[Jaikoz MP3 Tag Editor]] is a cross platform tagger written in Java enabling you to use it on Windows, UNIX and Mac OS X. It has been designed for managing large music collections. It uses a spreadsheet view to allow you to edit information quickly and provides many auto-matching and auto-formatting tasks that do much of the work for you. Jaikoz currently supports tagging of MP3 files with all versions of ID3; other formats will be added in the future.

Jaikoz integrates with the [[MusicBrainz]] online database allowing your files meta-information to be automatically updated, whilst giving you full control over the changes you save. More information and a free 1 month trial is available from [http://www.jaikoz.net/ http://www.jaikoz.net/] and '''for every purchase of Jaikoz MP3 Tag Editor 10% is paid to [[MusicBrainz]]'''.

===Magic MP3 Tagger===

[[Magic Tagger|Magic MP3 Tagger]] was designed to enable an easy and effective renaming of audio files. This is done by
* checking the available tag,
* automatically interpreting the file and folder names,
* selecting the most reliable data from the tags, file and folder names,
* validating and completing the tags by cross-checking the songs with an internal music database.

Further, this program also supports the [[MusicBrainz]] online database, many different options, a clear and easy user interface, recursive processing of folders... Further information is available at [http://www.magic-tagger.com/ http://www.magic-tagger.com/]. '''For every purchase of Magic MP3 Tagger 10% is paid to [[MusicBrainz]].'''

===My Music Collection===
[[My Music Collection]]
My Music Collection is comprehensive music catalog software for Windows designed for CD collectors, DJs and home users with large media collections. This music organizer software allows users to catalog CDs, MP3s, vinyl records and other media into an organized database with various searching, filtering and reporting options.

Since My Music Collection is connected to several online databases (including MusicBrainz), to add a CD, simply insert the CD, scan barcode with a barcode reader, or type the artist and title, and this music catalog software will get all missing information, including artist, release date, title, track names and album cover. Then you can organize, search and filter your CD collection to get a comprehensive report that can either be printed or exported to HTML, XML, PDF, Excel or text file.

Further information is available at http://my-music-collection.com/. For every purchase of [[My Music Collection]] 10% is paid to [[MusicBrainz]].

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Revision as of 19:48, 20 January 2012

This is a list of applications that have MusicBrainz support built in:

Taggers

The following taggers will tag your music files with MusicBrainz data.

MusicBrainz Picard
MusicBrainz Picard is a cross platform (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows) album oriented MusicBrainz tagger with support for acoustic fingerprinting of MP3, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4 and WMA formats.
Jaikoz
Jaikoz is a cross platform tagger written in Java enabling you to use it on Windows, UNIX and Mac OS X. It has been designed for managing large music collections. It uses a spreadsheet view to allow you to edit information quickly and provides many auto-matching and auto-formatting tasks that do much of the work for you. Jaikoz currently supports tagging of MP3 files with all versions of ID3; other formats will be added in the future.
Jaikoz integrates with MusicBrainz by allowing the metadata in your files to be automatically updated, whilst giving you full control over the changes you make. More information and a free 1 month trial is available from http://www.jaikoz.net/. Jaikoz is a part of the Tagger Affiliate Program and pays 10% of each purchase to MusicBrainz.
Magic MP3 Tagger
Magic MP3 Tagger was designed to enable easy and effective renaming of audio files. This is done by
  • checking the available tag,
  • automatically interpreting the file and folder names,
  • selecting the most reliable data from the tags, file and folder names,
  • validating and completing the tags by cross-checking the songs with an internal music database.
Magic Mp3 Tagger uses MusicBrainz to find its data, has many different options, recursive processing of folders, and a clear and easy to use interface. Further information is available at http://www.magic-tagger.com/. Magic MP3 Tagger is a part of the Tagger Affiliate Program and pays 10% of every purchase to MusicBrainz.
Flactag
Flactag is a linux console based tagger for single album FLAC files with embedded CUE sheets. The tags are downloaded from the MusicBrainz service and can be written to the FLAC file as Vorbis comments. Once tagged, the file can be renamed based on a 'template' naming scheme.
Kitsune
kitsune is a free player/tagger for Japanese and Russian music. It supports MusicBrainz lookup for artists and recordings, and will only scrobble to last.fm if a correct name was found in MusicBrainz. It will use chromaprint to identify music from a Japanese web radio station or anime related music.
Mp3tag
Mp3tag is a powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit metadata (ID3, Vorbis Comments and APE) of common audio formats. It can rename files based on the tag information, replace characters or words from tags and filenames, import/export tag information, create playlists and more. The program supports online freedb database lookups for selected files, allowing you to automatically gather proper tag information for select files or CDs.

Media libraries

The following music library managers can tag your files with MusicBrainz data.

Amarok
Amarok is a music player for KDE. It supports many multimedia frameworks (like GStreamer, XINE, and aRts) to play music media and streams, and features a fresh and efficient approach to playlist handling. The emphasis is on the quick and easy user interface, allowing for fast access to the media library. Amarok versions 1.1 through 1.4.x supported lookups via MusicBrainz [1], and versions starting from 2.4 support it again [2].
Banshee
Banshee is an audio management and playback application for the GNOME Desktop, allowing users to import audio from CDs, search their library, create playlists of selections of their library, sync music to/from iPods, and burn selections to a CD.
beets
beets is a flexible command-line music library manager written in Python. It includes a tag corrector and album art downloader that use MusicBrainz as their backend.
Clementine
Clementine is a multiplatform music player. It is inspired by Amarok 1.4, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and playing your music.
foobar2000
foobar2000 is an advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Some of its features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats. Support for MusicBrainz has been added with foo_musicbrainz and it can use MusicBrainz data to tag media files and audio CDs.
MusicBee
MusicBee is a MusicBee is a free digital media player and media library application for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems using the BASS Audio Library [3].
Rhythmbox
Rhythmbox is an integrated music management application, originally inspired by Apple's iTunes. It is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop, and based on the powerful GStreamer media framework.

CD rippers

The following programs will rip your CDs and automatically use MusicBrainz to tag the new files.

Sound Juicer
Sound Juicer is a clean, mean, and lean CD ripper for GNOME 2. It sports a clean interface and simple preferences, aiming to do The Right Thing and What You Mean all of the time. It requires GNOME 2.14 and GStreamer 0.10. Sound Juicer is shipped with Ubuntu.
X Lossless Decoder
X Lossless Decoder (XLD) is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding. It works on Mac OS X 10.4 and later.