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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%83_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2" title="ميوزك برينز – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="ميوزك برينز" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E2%80%8C%E0%A6%9C" title="মিউজিকব্রেইন্‌জ – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="মিউজিকব্রেইন্‌জ" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%9C" title="म्यूजिकब्रैंज – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="म्यूजिकब्रैंज" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>भोजपुरी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B2%DB%8C%DA%A9%E2%80%8C%D8%A8%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%B2" title="موزیک‌برینز – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="موزیک‌برینز" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%AE%A4%EC%A7%81%EB%B8%8C%EB%A0%88%EC%9D%B8%EC%A6%88" title="뮤직브레인즈 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="뮤직브레인즈" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BC%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%AC%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BC" title="म्यूज़िकब्रैन्ज़ – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="म्यूज़िकब्रैन्ज़" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ilo mw-list-item"><a href="https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Iloko" lang="ilo" hreflang="ilo" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Ilokano" data-language-local-name="Iloko" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ilokano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mt mw-list-item"><a href="https://mt.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Maltese" lang="mt" hreflang="mt" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Malti" data-language-local-name="Maltese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Malti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2" title="ميوزيكبرينز – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="ميوزيكبرينز" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="සිංහල" data-language-local-name="Sinhala" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>සිංහල</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz" title="MusicBrainz – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="MusicBrainz" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li 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org">MusicBrainz</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:MusicBrainz_Logo_with_text_(2016).svg" class="mw-file-description" title="MusicBrainz logo since February 2016"><img alt="MusicBrainz logo since February 2016" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/MusicBrainz_Logo_with_text_%282016%29.svg/228px-MusicBrainz_Logo_with_text_%282016%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="228" height="57" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/MusicBrainz_Logo_with_text_%282016%29.svg/342px-MusicBrainz_Logo_with_text_%282016%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/MusicBrainz_Logo_with_text_%282016%29.svg/456px-MusicBrainz_Logo_with_text_%282016%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="127" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:MusicBrainz_homepage.png" 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href="/wiki/MetaBrainz_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="MetaBrainz Foundation">MetaBrainz Foundation</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Created by</th><td class="infobox-data">Robert Kaye</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">URL</th><td class="infobox-data url"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://musicbrainz.org/">musicbrainz<wbr />.org</a></span> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14005#P856" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, 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class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Current status</th><td class="infobox-data category">Online</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Content license</div></th><td class="infobox-data">Part <a href="/wiki/Creative_Commons_Zero" class="mw-redirect" title="Creative Commons Zero">Creative Commons Zero</a> (<a href="/wiki/Open_data" title="Open data">open data</a>) and part <a href="/wiki/CC_BY-NC-SA" class="mw-redirect" title="CC BY-NC-SA">CC BY-NC-SA</a> (not open); commercial licensing available</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Written in</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Perl" title="Perl">Perl</a> with <a href="/wiki/PostgreSQL" title="PostgreSQL">PostgreSQL</a> database</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>MusicBrainz</b> is a <a href="/wiki/MetaBrainz_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="MetaBrainz Foundation">MetaBrainz</a> project that aims to create a collaborative music database that is similar to the <a href="/wiki/Freedb" title="Freedb">freedb</a> project. MusicBrainz was founded in response to the restrictions placed on the <a href="/wiki/CDDB" title="CDDB">Compact Disc Database</a> (CDDB), a database for software applications to look up audio <a href="/wiki/Compact_disc" title="Compact disc">CD</a> information on the Internet. MusicBrainz has expanded its goals to reach beyond a CD <a href="/wiki/Metadata_(computing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Metadata (computing)">metadata</a> (this is information about the performers, artists, songwriters, etc.) storehouse to become a structured online database for music.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>MusicBrainz captures information about artists, their recorded works, and the relationships between them. Recorded works entries capture at a minimum the album title, track titles, and the length of each track. These entries are maintained by volunteer editors who follow community written style guidelines. Recorded works can also store information about the release date and country, the CD ID, <a href="/wiki/Cover_art" title="Cover art">cover art</a>, <a href="/wiki/Acoustic_fingerprint" title="Acoustic fingerprint">acoustic fingerprint</a>, free-form annotation text and other metadata. As of November 2024<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MusicBrainz&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, MusicBrainz contains information on over 2.4 million artists, 4.4 million releases, and 33.6 million recordings.<sup id="cite_ref-statistics_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-statistics-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> End-users can use software that communicates with MusicBrainz to add <a href="/wiki/ID3_tag" class="mw-redirect" title="ID3 tag">metadata tags</a> to their digital media files, such as <a href="/wiki/Apple_Lossless" class="mw-redirect" title="Apple Lossless">ALAC</a>, <a href="/wiki/FLAC" title="FLAC">FLAC</a>, <a href="/wiki/MP3" title="MP3">MP3</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ogg_Vorbis" class="mw-redirect" title="Ogg Vorbis">Ogg Vorbis</a> or <a href="/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding" title="Advanced Audio Coding">AAC</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Image_archives">Image archives</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MusicBrainz&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Image archives"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cover_Art_Archive">Cover Art Archive</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MusicBrainz&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Cover Art Archive"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cover_Art_Archive_Logo_with_text_(2020).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Cover_Art_Archive_Logo_with_text_%282020%29.svg/220px-Cover_Art_Archive_Logo_with_text_%282020%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="42" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Cover_Art_Archive_Logo_with_text_%282020%29.svg/330px-Cover_Art_Archive_Logo_with_text_%282020%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Cover_Art_Archive_Logo_with_text_%282020%29.svg/440px-Cover_Art_Archive_Logo_with_text_%282020%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="97" /></a><figcaption>Logo of Cover Art Archive</figcaption></figure> <p>MusicBrainz allows contributors to upload cover art images of releases to the database; these images are hosted by Cover Art Archive (CAA), a joint project between <a href="/wiki/Internet_Archive" title="Internet Archive">Internet Archive</a> and MusicBrainz started in 2012. Internet Archive provides the bandwidth, storage and legal protection for hosting the images, while MusicBrainz stores metadata and provides public access through the Web and via an <a href="/wiki/Application_programming_interface" class="mw-redirect" title="Application programming interface">API</a> for third parties to use. As with other contributions, the MusicBrainz community is in charge of maintaining and reviewing the data.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Until May 16, 2022,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> cover art was also provided for items on sale at <a href="/wiki/Amazon.com" class="mw-redirect" title="Amazon.com">Amazon.com</a> and some other online resources, but CAA is now preferred, because it gives the community more control and flexibility for managing the images. In As of November 2024<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MusicBrainz&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, over 5.5 million images exist in the archive.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Event_Art_Archive">Event Art Archive</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MusicBrainz&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Event Art Archive"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In June 2024, MusicBrainz launched the Event Art Archive, another joint venture with the Internet Archive.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The project is labeled as "the internet's greatest repository for event art", and as of November 2024<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MusicBrainz&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, contains over 4,000 images.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Fingerprinting">Fingerprinting</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MusicBrainz&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Fingerprinting"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:MusicBrainz_Picard_2.7_screenshot.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/MusicBrainz_Picard_2.7_screenshot.png/220px-MusicBrainz_Picard_2.7_screenshot.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="153" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/MusicBrainz_Picard_2.7_screenshot.png/330px-MusicBrainz_Picard_2.7_screenshot.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/MusicBrainz_Picard_2.7_screenshot.png/440px-MusicBrainz_Picard_2.7_screenshot.png 2x" data-file-width="1299" data-file-height="901" /></a><figcaption>Screenshot of MusicBrainz Picard</figcaption></figure> <p>Besides collecting metadata about music, MusicBrainz also allows looking up recordings by their <a href="/wiki/Acoustic_fingerprint" title="Acoustic fingerprint">acoustic fingerprint</a>. A separate application, such as MusicBrainz Picard, is used to do this. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Proprietary_services">Proprietary services</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MusicBrainz&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Proprietary services"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2000, MusicBrainz started using <i>Relatable's</i> patented TRM (a <a href="/wiki/Recursive_acronym" title="Recursive acronym">recursive acronym</a> for TRM Recognizes Music) for acoustic fingerprint matching. The popularity of this feature drew in a large user base, enabling the database to expand rapidly. By 2005, TRM was experiencing difficulties in handling the sheer volume of data, as the number of tracks stored in the database had surpassed the million mark.This issue was resolved in May 2006 when MusicBrainz partnered with MusicIP (now <a href="/wiki/AmpliFIND" title="AmpliFIND">AmpliFIND</a>), replacing TRM with MusicDNS.<sup id="cite_ref-musicdns_announcement_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-musicdns_announcement-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> TRMs were phased out and replaced by MusicDNS in November 2008. </p><p>In October 2009 MusicIP was acquired by <a href="/wiki/AmpliFIND" title="AmpliFIND">AmpliFIND</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="AcoustID_and_Chromaprint">AcoustID and Chromaprint</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MusicBrainz&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: AcoustID and Chromaprint"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Since the future of the free identification service was uncertain, a replacement for it was sought. The Chromaprint acoustic fingerprinting algorithm, the basis for <a href="/wiki/AcoustID" title="AcoustID">AcoustID</a> identification service, was started in February 2010 by a long-time MusicBrainz contributor Lukáš Lalinský.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While AcoustID and Chromaprint are not officially MusicBrainz projects, they are closely tied with each other and both are open source. Chromaprint works by analyzing the first two minutes of a track, detecting the strength in each of 12 <a href="/wiki/Pitch_class" title="Pitch class">pitch classes</a>, storing these eight times per second. Additional post-processing is then applied to compress this fingerprint while retaining patterns.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The AcoustID search server then searches from the database of fingerprints by similarity and returns the AcoustID identifier along with MusicBrainz recording identifiers, if known. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Licensing">Licensing</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MusicBrainz&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Licensing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Since 2003,<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> MusicBrainz's core data (artists, recordings, releases, and so on) are in the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a>, and additional content, including moderation data (essentially every <a href="/wiki/Threshold_of_originality" title="Threshold of originality">original content</a> contributed by users and its elaborations), is placed under the Creative Commons <a href="/wiki/CC_BY-NC-SA" class="mw-redirect" title="CC BY-NC-SA">CC BY-NC-SA</a>-2.0 license.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Relational_database_management_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Relational database management system">relational database management system</a> is <a href="/wiki/PostgreSQL" title="PostgreSQL">PostgreSQL</a>. The server software is covered by the <a href="/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License" title="GNU General Public License">GNU General Public License</a>. The MusicBrainz client <a href="/wiki/Library_(computing)" title="Library (computing)">software library</a>, <i>libmusicbrainz</i>, is licensed under the <a href="/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License" title="GNU Lesser General Public License">GNU Lesser General Public License</a>, which allows use of the code by proprietary software products. </p><p>In December 2004, the MusicBrainz project was turned over to the <a href="/wiki/MetaBrainz_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="MetaBrainz Foundation">MetaBrainz Foundation</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Non-profit" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-profit">non-profit</a> group, by its creator Robert Kaye.<sup id="cite_ref-metabrainz_announcement_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-metabrainz_announcement-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 20 January 2006, the first commercial venture to use MusicBrainz data was the <a href="/wiki/Barcelona" title="Barcelona">Barcelona</a>, Spain-based <i>Linkara</i> in their "Linkara Música" service.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 28 June 2007, <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> announced that it had licensed MusicBrainz's live data feed to augment their music web pages. The <a href="/wiki/BBC_Music" title="BBC Music">BBC online music editors</a> would also join the MusicBrainz community to contribute their knowledge to the database.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 28 July 2008, the beta of the new BBC Music site was launched, which publishes a page for each MusicBrainz artist.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="MusicBrainz_Picard">MusicBrainz Picard</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MusicBrainz&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: MusicBrainz Picard"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>MusicBrainz Picard is a <a href="/wiki/Free_and_open-source" class="mw-redirect" title="Free and open-source">free and open-source</a> <a href="/wiki/Software_application" class="mw-redirect" title="Software application">software application</a> for identifying, <a href="/wiki/Tag_editor" title="Tag editor">tagging</a>, and organising <a href="/wiki/Digital_audio" title="Digital audio">digital audio</a> recordings.<sup id="cite_ref-pcworld_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pcworld-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Picard identifies <a href="/wiki/Audio_files" class="mw-redirect" title="Audio files">audio files</a> and <a href="/wiki/Compact_disc" title="Compact disc">compact discs</a> by comparing either their <a href="/wiki/Metadata" title="Metadata">metadata</a> or their <a href="/wiki/Acoustic_fingerprint" title="Acoustic fingerprint">acoustic fingerprints</a> with records in the database.<sup id="cite_ref-pcworld_21-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pcworld-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Audio file metadata (or "tags") are a means for storing information about a recording in the file. When Picard identifies an <a href="/wiki/Audio_file" class="mw-redirect" title="Audio file">audio file</a>, it can add new information to it, such as the recording artist, the album title, the <a href="/wiki/Record_label" title="Record label">record label</a>, and the date of release.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="ListenBrainz"><span class="anchor" id="ListenBrainz"></span>ListenBrainz</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MusicBrainz&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: ListenBrainz"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ListenBrainz_Logo_(2020).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/ListenBrainz_Logo_%282020%29.svg/136px-ListenBrainz_Logo_%282020%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="136" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/ListenBrainz_Logo_%282020%29.svg/204px-ListenBrainz_Logo_%282020%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/ListenBrainz_Logo_%282020%29.svg/272px-ListenBrainz_Logo_%282020%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="640" /></a><figcaption>Logo of ListenBrainz</figcaption></figure> <p><b>ListenBrainz</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Free_and_open_source" class="mw-redirect" title="Free and open source">free and open source</a> project that aims to <a href="/wiki/Crowdsourcing" title="Crowdsourcing">crowdsource</a> listening data from digital music and release it under an <a href="/wiki/Open_license" class="mw-redirect" title="Open license">open license</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is a <a href="/wiki/MetaBrainz_Foundation" class="mw-redirect" title="MetaBrainz Foundation">MetaBrainz Foundation</a> project tied to MusicBrainz. It aims to re-implement Last.fm features that were lost following that platform's acquisition by CBS.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>ListenBrainz takes submissions from media players and services such as <a href="/wiki/Music_Player_Daemon" title="Music Player Daemon">Music Player Daemon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Spotify" title="Spotify">Spotify</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Rhythmbox" title="Rhythmbox">Rhythmbox</a> in the form of listens. ListenBrainz can also import <a href="/wiki/Last.fm" title="Last.fm">Last.fm</a> and <a href="/wiki/Libre.fm" title="Libre.fm">Libre.fm</a> scrobbles in order to build listening history. As listens are released under an open license, ListenBrainz is useful for music research for industry and development purposes.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MusicBrainz&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_online_music_databases" title="List of online music databases">List of online music databases</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=MusicBrainz&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://musicbrainz.org/doc/About">"About"</a>. <i>MusicBrainz</i>. 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Jess Hemerly. Master's project at UC Berkeley. 2011.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFO'Brien2021" class="citation web cs1">O'Brien, Danny (3 June 2021). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/06/organizing-public-interest-musicbrainz">"Organizing in the Public Interest: MusicBrainz"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation" title="Electronic Frontier Foundation">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">8 December</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Electronic+Frontier+Foundation&rft.atitle=Organizing+in+the+Public+Interest%3A+MusicBrainz&rft.date=2021-06-03&rft.aulast=O%27Brien&rft.aufirst=Danny&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eff.org%2Fdeeplinks%2F2021%2F06%2Forganizing-public-interest-musicbrainz&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMusicBrainz" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMesnage2017" class="citation conference cs1">Mesnage, Cédric (July 2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.icicte.org/ICICTE_2017_Proceedings/9.3_Mesnage%202017.pdf"><i>Using the MusicBrainz database in the classroom</i></a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.icicte.org/ICICTE17Proceedings.htm">International Conference on Information, Communication Technologies in Education</a>. pp. 338–344<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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