Products

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MusicBrainz offers the following products for download and/or use. All of these are open source and/or free for non-commercial use.

There is also a list of third-party MusicBrainz enabled applications that feature MusicBrainz support.

Client applications

MusicBrainz Picard
Picard is a cross-platform (Linux/Mac OS X/Windows) application written in Python. It supports the majority of audio file formats, uses PUID audio fingerprints, performs CD lookups and disc ID submissions, and it has excellent Unicode support.
Magic MP3 Tagger
A Windows tagger for the MP3 file format that sponsors MusicBrainz and uses a built-in excerpt of the MusicBrainz core data. Magic Tagger is a Tagger Affiliate Program member. Download here
Jaikoz MP3 Tag Editor
A Java based cross platform tagging application that uses MusicBrainz with PUID support. Jaikoz is a Tagger Affiliate Program member. Download here
Rapport
An open source Mac OS X tagger for MP3 and M4A format files with PUID support. Download here

MusicBrainz services

MusicBrainz Server
The main MusicBrainz website.
MusicBrainz Database
The MusicBrainz database, and the data live-feed (replication features).
Live Data Feed
The MusicBrainz service provides a live data feed for mirror servers, free of charge.
FreeDB Gateway
A gateway for accessing MusicBrainz data with CDDB/FreeDB clients through the FreeDB protocol.

Developer resources

python-musicbrainz2
A client library written in Python which provides easy object oriented access to the MusicBrainz database using the XML web service.
XML web service
The new, REST-based webservice API for direct access to MusicBrainz data (Please review the libraries above before writing your own implementation). This web service should be used for all new development.
libdiscid
A C library for creating MusicBrainz disc IDs from audio CDs.
libmusicbrainz
A development library geared towards developers who wish to add MusicBrainz lookup capabilities to their applications.

Deprecated products

Classic Tagger
The predecessor of MusicBrainz Picard, this application had a track oriented approach to tagging and featured TRM acoustic fingerprinting.
libtunepimp
A development library geared towards developers who wish to write their own MusicBrainz enabled tagging application. This library and the RDF web service have been depricated -- for details see web service.