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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, available for Windows, UNIX and Mac OS X. It has been designed for managing large music collections, uses a spreadsheet view to allow you to edit information quickly and integrates with MusicBrainz, Acoustid and Discogs. 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 use MusicBrainz to tag the new files:

abcde
"A better CD encoder", a command line ripper for *nix, can be configured to use MusicBrainz.
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.