MusicBrainz

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#MusicBrainz is an open music encyclopedia that collects music metadata and makes it available to the public. A open source, ethical and open data project by @metabrainz.
Websitehttps://musicbrainz.org
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Back when we did things like “buy a cd and use iTunes to turn the music into mp3s” I used MusicBrainz Picard a lot to get all the metadata I needed. And then I kind of forgot about MusicBrainz.
Turns out: it is still going strong. It does lack quite a lot of the music I listen to, though. Which might not be so surprising because while I (mostly) listen to pop, there is also a whole bunch of dangdut and Luk thung. So I guess I’ll be doing a whole lot of editing MusicBrainz.

And don’t ask me why. It is mostly so that my ListenBrainz profile doesn’t look bad.

#ListenBrainz #MusicBrainz
MusicBrainz Picard

Official website for MusicBrainz Picard, a cross-platform music tagger written in Python.

So today is my 12 year anniversary as a #MusicBrainz editor! 🥳 I can't remember what caused me to sign up in the first place, but these days I take a lot of joy adding release data. In the last few years, I've started adding concert data too. I believe that #opendata is so important when sites like Songkick, which used to encourage people to build with their API, now place a lot of restrictions and costs on accessing it.

I also found this German techno masterpiece from 2014 in my archive, which I had never ripped back in the day. Many artists on these two CDs didn’t have an artist entry in MusicBrainz, including the main artist. Also, there’s an interesting inconsistency: one artist is credited as “Derfus” in the printed booklet, but as “Diffus” in CD-Text.

This was a pain to add to #MusicBrainz, but at some point I was too invested to quit and finished it. 🎉

https://musicbrainz.org/release/3a083d38-3310-4841-8892-57b31deb870f

Did you know I have a little @musicbrainz collection of #CreativeCommons music that I think is very good? Of course you didn't, I never told anyone.

https://musicbrainz.org/collection/1ab7ef90-dc76-4a72-acb0-5c8f011e6f1e

Ruffle through to see if you find stuff that's to your liking!

Of course, "high-quality" is very subjective, but you get the idea. Feel free to let me know if you'd like to curate the collection with moi.

#CCmusic #MusicBrainz

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Found a second hand album in Japan not in @musicbrainz! I've submitted my first edit to the database that helped me sort my whole music collection 😀

#MusicBrainzSchemaChange complete!

Thank you for your patience. All sites should now be back to normal.

Full blog post: https://blog.metabrainz.org/2026/03/11

Expect a second blog post with release info and upgrade instructions later today / tomorrow.

March 11, 2026 – MetaBrainz Blog

Services depending on MusicBrainz are back up, but MusicBrainz itself is still not fully back.
We currently anticipate an additional one-hour delay for this downtime.
We currently anticipate an additional one-hour delay for this downtime.