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MusicBrainz

MusicBrainz is an open, community-maintained music encyclopedia and database for artists, releases, recordings, works, labels, and related music metadata.

Core idea
MusicBrainz collects structured music metadata about artists, releases, recordings, works, labels, events, places, and relationships.
Community model
The database is edited by volunteers through an open contribution and moderation process.
Data use
MusicBrainz data supports tagging tools, music apps, research projects, cataloging systems, and commercial data feeds.
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What MusicBrainz is

MusicBrainz is an open, community-maintained music encyclopedia and metadata database. On MusicBrainz, people can look up artists, releases, recordings, works, labels, events, places, and the relationships that connect them.

What the database stores

The project focuses on structured information about music rather than streaming audio. A release can link to artists, tracks, recordings, labels, release dates, countries, cover art, identifiers, credits, and relationships such as who performed, composed, produced, remixed, or released the work.

How people use it

Listeners often meet MusicBrainz through tagging tools such as MusicBrainz Picard, which can identify music files and apply more consistent metadata. Developers use the database, web service, and live data feed to build music libraries, recommendation tools, catalog systems, and research datasets.

Community editing

MusicBrainz is maintained by editors who add data, vote on changes, discuss style guidelines, and correct old entries. This gives the site broad coverage, but it also means disputed credits, regional releases, obscure formats, and edge cases may require careful source checking.

Open data and licensing

MusicBrainz describes much of its core database as available under Creative Commons Zero, with some remaining data under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. That open-data model is a major reason the database appears inside tagging software and other music metadata tools.

Why it matters

Music metadata is easy to underestimate until a library has duplicate artists, missing credits, wrong release years, or inconsistent track names. MusicBrainz gives music data a shared public reference point, helping people connect recordings, releases, works, and credits across formats and countries.

Limits and cautions

MusicBrainz is not a music streaming service and does not store the recordings themselves. Its data can also be incomplete or debated, especially for new releases, bootlegs, local scenes, pseudonyms, and credits that differ across physical editions, digital platforms, and official documents.

WHOIS domain data

Data pulled: May 19, 2026View current WHOIS record

Domain
musicbrainz.org
IP address
142.132.241.153
Registrar
Gandi SAS
WHOIS server
whois.gandi.net
Referral URL
http://www.gandi.net
Created
July 17, 2000
Updated
May 31, 2025
Expires
July 17, 2029
Nameservers
ns-59-a.gandi.net (173.246.100.60); ns-198-c.gandi.net (217.70.187.199); ns-150-b.gandi.net (213.167.230.151)
Domain status
clientTransferProhibited
Contact privacy
Registrant name is redacted for privacy; registrant organization is listed as MetaBrainz Foundation Inc. in California, US. Admin and technical contacts are redacted.