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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:


== Media players and centers ==
==Open Source Applications==


; [https://github.com/jakubroztocil/cloudtunes Cloudtunes]
===MusicBrainz Picard===
: A free and open source web-based music player that unify between music stored in cloud (Youtube, DropBox, etc) and uses MusicBrainz data for music metadata.


; [https://jellyfin.org/ Jellyfin]
[[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.
: An open-source media server software which uses MusicBrainz to get several musical metadata especially about Artists, their ids, biographies(if it's available), songs/productions etc.


; [https://kodi.tv/ Kodi]
===MusicBrainz Tagger (Classic)===
: Kodi is a cross-platform software media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games, and more. It uses MusicBrainz to improve its music experience.


; [https://www.plex.tv/ Plex]
[[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.
: Plex is a cross-platform media center, using MusicBrainz data to improve its music experience.


; [https://gitlab.com/Axelander/SonicStreamer SonicStreamer]
===Amarok===
: Media streaming software that allows you to access you music from anywhere else. Supports MusicBrainz for getting an showing additional data about the music in the library (since [http://theaxelander.de/wordpress/?p=410 version 2.4]).


; [https://github.com/jamesfiltness/tuneify Tuneify]
[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 ^].
: A music app that uses Youtube API for song play and MusicBrainz data for information/metadata.


; [https://www.videolan.org/vlc/ VLC media player]
===aRanger===
: A free and open source cross-platform multimedia player that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. Uses MusicBrainz data for looking up information/metadata as well as cover art from [[Cover Art Archive]].


== Media libraries ==
[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.


The following music library managers can tag your files with MusicBrainz data:
===Audacious===


; Amarok
[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.
: [https://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].


; AudioExpert
===Banshee===
: [https://udse.de/audioexpert/ AudioExpert] is a Music Organizer Software to tidy, manage, clean up, align, sort, join/merge, and organize music archives resp. music libraries. Supported formats are MP3, MP4, M4A, WMA, OGG, FLAC, MPC, WAV and AAC.


; Banshee
[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://banshee.fm/ 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
: [https://beets.io/ 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
[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.
: [https://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
===BMPx===
: [https://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 [https://github.com/kbuffington/foo_musicbrainz/releases MusicBrainzTagger] and it can use MusicBrainz data to tag media files and audio CDs.


; MediaMonkey
[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.
: [https://www.mediamonkey.com/ MediaMonkey] is a media management library with features like identifying tracks and tagging music. It has a [https://www.mediamonkey.com/addons/browse/item/musicbrainz-tagger/ Musicbrainz Tagger addon] which serves the purpose of identifying tracks using data sourced from the MusicBrainz database.


; Mixxx
===CDex===
: [http://mixxx.org/ Mixxx] is free DJ software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It currently supports getting information from MusicBrainz.


; MusicBee
[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://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].


; Quod Libet
===cdINFO Tool===
: [https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Quod Libet] is an open-source, free and cross-platform(Linux, Windows, MacOS) audio player as well as a tag editor. Among its over 60 plugins, there is one which permits automatic tagging using MusicBrainz. Supported formats include: MP3, Ogg Vorbis / Speex / Opus, FLAC, Musepack, MOD/XM/IT, Wavpack, MPEG-4 AAC, WMA, MIDI, Monkey’s Audio.


; Rhythmbox
[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].
: [https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/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.


; Strawberry Music Player
===Clementine===
: [https://www.strawberrymusicplayer.org/ Strawberry Music Player] is a music player and music collection organizer which uses MusicBrainz to get album cover arts and several musical metadata such as artist ids, song ids, album ids etc.


== Taggers ==
[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.


The following taggers will tag your music files with MusicBrainz data:
===dcd===


=== Official ===
[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.


; MusicBrainz Picard
===Domo===
: [https://picard.musicbrainz.org/ 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.


=== Affiliated taggers ===
[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.


; Magic MP3 Tagger
===Flactag===
: [[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://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.


; Yate Music Tagger
===GCstar===
: [[Yate Music Tagger]] is a Mac OS X based tagger for mp3, m4a, FLAC and AIFF files. Supports MusicBrainz, Discogs and integration with iTunes. Actions providing scripting can be run interactively or in a batch mode. ''Yate Music Tagger is a part of the [[Tagger Affiliate Program]] and pays 10% of every purchase to MusicBrainz.''


=== Other taggers ===
[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.


; Flactag
===iEatBrainz===
: [http://flactag.sourceforge.net/ 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.


; ID3 renamer
[[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.
: [https://www.id3renamer.com/ ID3 renamer] is a free, intuitive program for the renaming of files and ID3 tags. It can rename a large number of files in a directory accordingly to their ID3 description and a given "formula" (e.g. (%Track) %Artist - %Title), remove the diacritics and clean portions of the ID3 tag. The program searches through freedb for identical albums and MusicBrainz by album name, artist and number of tracks.


; Kid3
===JuK===
: [https://kid3.sourceforge.io/ Kid3] is a cross-platform free audio tagger. It imports album data from many sources, most notably from gnudb.org, TrackType.org, MusicBrainz, Discogs and Amazon.


; Kitsune
[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.
: [https://code.google.com/archive/p/utopia-no-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 [https://oxygene.sk/2010/07/introducing-chromaprint/ chromaprint] to identify music from a Japanese web radio station or anime related music.


; Jaikoz
===JMP3Renamer===
: [http://www.jthink.net/jaikoz/ Jaikoz] is a powerful tagger available for macOS, Windows and Linux making use of MusicBrainz, Discogs and AcoustId.


; Metatogger
[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.
: [https://www.luminescence-software.org/en/metatogger.html Metatogger] is a tag editor allowing you to rename, tag and easily sort your MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, WMA and M4A files. Metatogger permits automatic tagging using data from the Musicbrainz platform or using Acoustid acoustic fingerprint technology. Covers can be found via the [https://archive.org/details/coverartarchive Cover Art Archive].


; Mp3tag
===Kitsune===
: [https://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.
[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.


; Puddletag
===KTag===
: [http://docs.puddletag.net/ Puddletag] is an audio tag editor that is primarily created for GNU/Linux. It uses a spreadsheet-like layout so that all the tags are visible and easily editable. Puddletag imports tag information from online databases like freedb, Discogs, MusicBrainz AcoustID and Amazon (also by text-search).


; SongKong
[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.
: [http://www.jthink.net/songkong/ SongKong] prides itself as an intelligent music tagger application. SongKong is simple and powerful at the same time and it can help you manage, organize and clean up your digital music collection. SongKong uses intelligent acoustic matching from Acoustid to find song matches in a case of no information. SongKong uses their JThink Music Server, which is regularly updated from the MusicBrainz and Discogs databases to serve you song matches depending on the information available. It is available for MacOS, Windows, Linux and Docker supporting devices such as Synology Intel Disk Stations.


; TagEditor
===Max===
: [https://amvidia.com/tag-editor Tag Editor] is a tag editor allows you to easily batch tagging MP3, AIFF, WAV, FLAC, MP4, M4A files and renaming audio files through a handy spreadsheet. The program supports the users to easily download music metadata and artworks from AcoustID, MusicBrainz and Cover Art Archive. It is available for MacOS only.


; TagScanner
[http://sbooth.org/Max/ Max] is an open source CD ripper for Mac OS that uses [[MusicBrainz]] to look up metadata.
: [https://www.xdlab.ru/en/ TagScanner] helps one edit tags of most modern audio formats, supports ID3v1/v2, Vorbis comments, APEv2, WMA and MP4(iTunes) tags. The user has the liberty to get album info and download covers through online databases such as freedb, Discogs or MusicBrainz. The software is available on Windows in over a dozen languages.


; TigoTago
===Moosak===
: [http://tigotago.com/ TigoTago] is a spreadsheet-based tag editor for media files, using MusicBrainz to lookup CD album information. There is a [https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-mass-edit-id3-tags-in-tigotago-2438863 tutorial] available showing how to use it with MusicBrainz as the data source.


; Zortam Mp3 Media Studio
[http://ambient.2y.net/moosak/index.html Moosak] an alpha quality Gnome audio app (written in Python)
: [https://www.zortam.com/ Zortam Mp3 Media Studio] is an all-in-one MP3 application suite. It has several modules including a MP3 Auto Tagger, and supports MusicBrainz as a data source.


===MP3Cat===
== CD rippers ==


The following programs will rip your CDs and use MusicBrainz to tag the new files:
[http://tellini.info/software/mp3cat MP3Cat] is a MP3 tool to tag and organize large collections of MP3s.


; abcde
===NotMD===
: "[https://abcde.einval.com/wiki/ A better CD encoder]", a command line ripper for *nix, can be configured to use MusicBrainz.


; CUERipper
[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.
: [http://cue.tools/wiki/CUERipper CUERipper] is an open-source CD Ripper for Windows. It supports MusicBrainz.


; dBpoweramp CD Ripper
===Pinky Tagger===
: [https://www.dbpoweramp.com/cd-ripper.htm dBpoweramp CD Ripper] is a secure CD ripper for Windows and OS X. It supports MusicBrainz.


; Exact Audio Copy
[http://pinkytagger.sourceforge.net/ Pinky Tagger] is a program for editing and mass tagging music file tags for Linux.
: [http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ Exact Audio Copy (EAC)] is a secure CD ripper for Windows. It comes bundled with a MusicBrainz plugin for automated CD lookups as well as a [http://cue.tools/wiki/CTDB_EAC_Plugin CueTools DB Metadata Plugin] which can fetch album metadata from MusicBrainz.


; Express Rip
===Quod Libet===
: [https://www.nch.com.au/rip/index.html Express Rip] is a CD ripping program for Windows that lets you extract digital audio tracks directly from audio CDs to mp3 or wav audio files. It uses MusicBrainz as its source for getting metadata about releases.[https://www.nch.com.au/rip/screenshots.html Here] is how it works.


; EZ CD Audio Converter
[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.
: [https://www.poikosoft.com/ EZ CD Audio Converter] is a multi-language CD ripper, audio converter, metadata editor and disc burner. It supports MusicBrainz.


; morituri
===QMBTagger===
: [https://github.com/thomasvs/morituri morituri] is a powerful command line ripper for *nix that aims at creating precise audio rips. It uses MusicBrainz as its source for getting metadata about releases.
: {{Note|The author has gone more or less AWOL, so others have continued the project in the fork ''whipper'' (see below).}}


; RipIt
[http://qmbtagger.sourceforge.net/ QMBTagger] is QT based MP3 Tagging application.
: [http://www.suwald.com/ripit/news.php RipIt] is a command line ripper that can rip to a number of formats. It can be set to use MusicBrainz for looking up release information.
: {{Note|The author has officially retired (from) the project.}}


; Sound Juicer
===Quick Namer===
: [https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/SoundJuicer 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://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]].
: [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.


; whipper
===Rhythmbox===
: [https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper whipper] is a fork of ''morituri'' (see above), a powerful command line ripper for *nix aiming at creating precise audio rips. It uses MusicBrainz as its sole source for release metadata.


== Mobile Apps ==
[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.


; Album Art Grabber
===Sound Juicer===
: [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.citc.aag&hl=en Album Art Grabber] is an app that downloads missing album art from last.fm and MusicBrainz for your albums. It has a built-in media scanner, custom searches by artist or album and does auto-lookups of album art when a new album is added.


; Catchy
[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.
: [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.projectsexception.catchy&hl=en Catchy] allows you to recommend movies, series, books and music with your friends. You will also know if your interests are similar and you will be able to track what you've seen and what not. Catchy integrates MusicBrainz and CoverArtArchive in its application to perform its services.


; Metadatics
===TuneTagger===
: [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/metadatics/id554883654?mt=12 Metadatics] is a powerful audio metadata editor for macOS which supports several file types, including but not limited to, MP3, M4A, AIFF, WAV, FLAC, APE, OGG, WMA. It uses MusicBrainz to search for tags.


; nusic
[http://tunetagger.sourceforge.net/ TuneTagger] is a text based Python tagging application. A GUI for this application is coming shortly.
: [https://github.com/schnatterer/nusic nusic] is an app to notify you about new releases of the artists of tagged songs on your phone. It makes periodic requests to MusicBrainz to check if new releases have been added.

===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.

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

===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.

==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 02:20, 27 April 2020

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

Media players and centers

Cloudtunes
A free and open source web-based music player that unify between music stored in cloud (Youtube, DropBox, etc) and uses MusicBrainz data for music metadata.
Jellyfin
An open-source media server software which uses MusicBrainz to get several musical metadata especially about Artists, their ids, biographies(if it's available), songs/productions etc.
Kodi
Kodi is a cross-platform software media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games, and more. It uses MusicBrainz to improve its music experience.
Plex
Plex is a cross-platform media center, using MusicBrainz data to improve its music experience.
SonicStreamer
Media streaming software that allows you to access you music from anywhere else. Supports MusicBrainz for getting an showing additional data about the music in the library (since version 2.4).
Tuneify
A music app that uses Youtube API for song play and MusicBrainz data for information/metadata.
VLC media player
A free and open source cross-platform multimedia player that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. Uses MusicBrainz data for looking up information/metadata as well as cover art from Cover Art Archive.

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].
AudioExpert
AudioExpert is a Music Organizer Software to tidy, manage, clean up, align, sort, join/merge, and organize music archives resp. music libraries. Supported formats are MP3, MP4, M4A, WMA, OGG, FLAC, MPC, WAV and AAC.
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 MusicBrainzTagger and it can use MusicBrainz data to tag media files and audio CDs.
MediaMonkey
MediaMonkey is a media management library with features like identifying tracks and tagging music. It has a Musicbrainz Tagger addon which serves the purpose of identifying tracks using data sourced from the MusicBrainz database.
Mixxx
Mixxx is free DJ software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It currently supports getting information from MusicBrainz.
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].
Quod Libet
Quod Libet is an open-source, free and cross-platform(Linux, Windows, MacOS) audio player as well as a tag editor. Among its over 60 plugins, there is one which permits automatic tagging using MusicBrainz. Supported formats include: MP3, Ogg Vorbis / Speex / Opus, FLAC, Musepack, MOD/XM/IT, Wavpack, MPEG-4 AAC, WMA, MIDI, Monkey’s Audio.
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.
Strawberry Music Player
Strawberry Music Player is a music player and music collection organizer which uses MusicBrainz to get album cover arts and several musical metadata such as artist ids, song ids, album ids etc.

Taggers

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

Official

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.

Affiliated taggers

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.
Yate Music Tagger
Yate Music Tagger is a Mac OS X based tagger for mp3, m4a, FLAC and AIFF files. Supports MusicBrainz, Discogs and integration with iTunes. Actions providing scripting can be run interactively or in a batch mode. Yate Music Tagger is a part of the Tagger Affiliate Program and pays 10% of every purchase to MusicBrainz.

Other taggers

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.
ID3 renamer
ID3 renamer is a free, intuitive program for the renaming of files and ID3 tags. It can rename a large number of files in a directory accordingly to their ID3 description and a given "formula" (e.g. (%Track) %Artist - %Title), remove the diacritics and clean portions of the ID3 tag. The program searches through freedb for identical albums and MusicBrainz by album name, artist and number of tracks.
Kid3
Kid3 is a cross-platform free audio tagger. It imports album data from many sources, most notably from gnudb.org, TrackType.org, MusicBrainz, Discogs and Amazon.
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.
Jaikoz
Jaikoz is a powerful tagger available for macOS, Windows and Linux making use of MusicBrainz, Discogs and AcoustId.
Metatogger
Metatogger is a tag editor allowing you to rename, tag and easily sort your MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, WMA and M4A files. Metatogger permits automatic tagging using data from the Musicbrainz platform or using Acoustid acoustic fingerprint technology. Covers can be found via the Cover Art Archive.
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.
Puddletag
Puddletag is an audio tag editor that is primarily created for GNU/Linux. It uses a spreadsheet-like layout so that all the tags are visible and easily editable. Puddletag imports tag information from online databases like freedb, Discogs, MusicBrainz AcoustID and Amazon (also by text-search).
SongKong
SongKong prides itself as an intelligent music tagger application. SongKong is simple and powerful at the same time and it can help you manage, organize and clean up your digital music collection. SongKong uses intelligent acoustic matching from Acoustid to find song matches in a case of no information. SongKong uses their JThink Music Server, which is regularly updated from the MusicBrainz and Discogs databases to serve you song matches depending on the information available. It is available for MacOS, Windows, Linux and Docker supporting devices such as Synology Intel Disk Stations.
TagEditor
Tag Editor is a tag editor allows you to easily batch tagging MP3, AIFF, WAV, FLAC, MP4, M4A files and renaming audio files through a handy spreadsheet. The program supports the users to easily download music metadata and artworks from AcoustID, MusicBrainz and Cover Art Archive. It is available for MacOS only.
TagScanner
TagScanner helps one edit tags of most modern audio formats, supports ID3v1/v2, Vorbis comments, APEv2, WMA and MP4(iTunes) tags. The user has the liberty to get album info and download covers through online databases such as freedb, Discogs or MusicBrainz. The software is available on Windows in over a dozen languages.
TigoTago
TigoTago is a spreadsheet-based tag editor for media files, using MusicBrainz to lookup CD album information. There is a tutorial available showing how to use it with MusicBrainz as the data source.
Zortam Mp3 Media Studio
Zortam Mp3 Media Studio is an all-in-one MP3 application suite. It has several modules including a MP3 Auto Tagger, and supports MusicBrainz as a data source.

CD rippers

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

abcde
"A better CD encoder", a command line ripper for *nix, can be configured to use MusicBrainz.
CUERipper
CUERipper is an open-source CD Ripper for Windows. It supports MusicBrainz.
dBpoweramp CD Ripper
dBpoweramp CD Ripper is a secure CD ripper for Windows and OS X. It supports MusicBrainz.
Exact Audio Copy
Exact Audio Copy (EAC) is a secure CD ripper for Windows. It comes bundled with a MusicBrainz plugin for automated CD lookups as well as a CueTools DB Metadata Plugin which can fetch album metadata from MusicBrainz.
Express Rip
Express Rip is a CD ripping program for Windows that lets you extract digital audio tracks directly from audio CDs to mp3 or wav audio files. It uses MusicBrainz as its source for getting metadata about releases.Here is how it works.
EZ CD Audio Converter
EZ CD Audio Converter is a multi-language CD ripper, audio converter, metadata editor and disc burner. It supports MusicBrainz.
morituri
morituri is a powerful command line ripper for *nix that aims at creating precise audio rips. It uses MusicBrainz as its source for getting metadata about releases.
Note: The author has gone more or less AWOL, so others have continued the project in the fork whipper (see below).
RipIt
RipIt is a command line ripper that can rip to a number of formats. It can be set to use MusicBrainz for looking up release information.
Note: The author has officially retired (from) the project.
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.
whipper
whipper is a fork of morituri (see above), a powerful command line ripper for *nix aiming at creating precise audio rips. It uses MusicBrainz as its sole source for release metadata.

Mobile Apps

Album Art Grabber
Album Art Grabber is an app that downloads missing album art from last.fm and MusicBrainz for your albums. It has a built-in media scanner, custom searches by artist or album and does auto-lookups of album art when a new album is added.
Catchy
Catchy allows you to recommend movies, series, books and music with your friends. You will also know if your interests are similar and you will be able to track what you've seen and what not. Catchy integrates MusicBrainz and CoverArtArchive in its application to perform its services.
Metadatics
Metadatics is a powerful audio metadata editor for macOS which supports several file types, including but not limited to, MP3, M4A, AIFF, WAV, FLAC, APE, OGG, WMA. It uses MusicBrainz to search for tags.
nusic
nusic is an app to notify you about new releases of the artists of tagged songs on your phone. It makes periodic requests to MusicBrainz to check if new releases have been added.