
#MUSICBRAINZ PICARD MUSIC METADATA SOFTWARE#
End-users can use software that communicates with MusicBrainz to add metadata tags to their digital media files, such as ALAC, FLAC, MP3, Ogg Vorbis or AAC. As of August 2022, MusicBrainz contained information on roughly 2 million artists, 3.3 million releases, and 27.5 million recordings. Recorded works can also store information about the release date and country, the CD ID, cover art, acoustic fingerprint, free-form annotation text and other metadata. These entries are maintained by volunteer editors who follow community written style guidelines. Recorded works entries capture at a minimum the album title, track titles, and the length of each track. MusicBrainz captures information about artists, their recorded works, and the relationships between them. MusicBrainz has expanded its goals to reach beyond a CD metadata (this is information about the performers, artists, songwriters, etc.) storehouse to become a structured online database for music. MusicBrainz was founded in response to the restrictions placed on the Compact Disc Database (CDDB), a database for software applications to look up audio CD information on the Internet.

MusicBrainz is a MetaBrainz project that aims to create a collaborative music database that is similar to the freedb project.


Part Creative Commons Zero ( open data) and part CC-BY-NC-SA (not open) commercial licensing available
