What is MusicBrainz?
{{Infobox website | name = MusicBrainz | logo = MusicBrainz Logo (2016).svg | screenshot = | caption = | url = {{url|https://musicbrainz.org}} | commercial = No | type = Online music encyclopedia<ref>{{cite web|title=About|url=https://musicbrainz.org/doc/About|website=MusicBrainz|publisher=MetaBrainz|access-date=4 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150508173335/http://musicbrainz.org/doc/About|archive-date=2015-05-08|url-status=live}}</ref> | registration = Optional (required for editing data) | language = English | num_users = ~250,000 active ever | content_license = Part [[Creative Commons Zero]] ([[open data]]) and part [[CC-BY-NC-SA]] (not open); commercial licensing available | programming_language = [[Perl]] with [[PostgreSQL]] database | owner = [[MetaBrainz Foundation]] | author = Robert Kaye | launch_date = {{start date and age|2000|7|17}}<ref>{{cite web|title=WHOIS Lookup|url=http://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=musicbrainz.org|publisher=[[ICANN]]|access-date=23 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402135738/http://whois.icann.org/en/lookup?name=musicbrainz.org|archive-date=2015-04-02|url-status=live}}</ref> | current_status = Online |logo_caption=Logo 2016.}} '''MusicBrainz''' is an music database. It is similar to the [[Breed|freedb]] project that aims to start an open data music database. The database captures information about artists, their recorded works, and start the relationships between them. == Client software == * [[Amarok (software)|Amarok]] — [[KDE]] audio player * [[Banshee (music player)|Banshee]] — multi-platform audio player * Beets — automatic [[Command-line interface|CLI]] music tagger/organiser for Unix-like systems * [[Clementine (software)|Clementine]] — multi-platform audio player * [[CDex]] — [[Microsoft Windows]] [[CD ripper]] * Demlo — a dynamic and extensible music manager using a [[command-line interface|CLI]] * iEatBrainz — [[macOS|Mac OS X]], deprecated * foo_musicbrainz component for [[Foobar 2000|foobar2000]] — music library/pudio P