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We're the MetaBrainz Foundation, a California non-profit that believes in free, open access to data. The foundation has been set up to build community maintained databases using open source software and make them available in the public domain or under Creative Commons licenses.

Our data is mostly gathered by volunteers and verified by peer review to ensure it is consistent and correct. All non-commercial use of this data is free, but commercial users are asked to support us in order to help fund the project. We encourage all our users to contribute to the data gathering process so that it can be as comprehensive as possible.

We've created the MusicBrainz, Picard Music Tagger and Cover Art Archive projects that are widely used throughout the world. We're currently also working hard on AcousticBrainz and ListenBrainz, two new projects designed to provide new services and allow us to gather more data that we can use to create open source music recommendation engines. Our most recent project is the BookBrainz project that hopes to apply everything we've learned from music to books.

Any support that you decide to give us will be used to fund our developers and our hosting operations. We have a small team of developers and a modest collection of servers that serve millions of API/web page requests every day. If you are curious about how we spend our money, please take a look at our public financial statements.

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@Maxr1998
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@romatthe
@simonxciv
@jannae
@ChrisHines
@himekifee
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Meet the team

Featured work

  1. metabrainz/picard

    MusicBrainz Picard audio file tagger

    Python 3,572
  2. metabrainz/musicbrainz-server

    Server for the MusicBrainz project (website, API, database tools)

    Perl 818
  3. metabrainz/listenbrainz-server

    Server for the ListenBrainz project, including the front-end (javascript/react) code that it serves and all of the data processing components that LB uses.

    Python 644
  4. metabrainz/musicbrainz-docker

    Docker Compose project for the MusicBrainz Server with replication, search, and development setup

    Shell 276
  5. metabrainz/acousticbrainz-server

    The server components for the AcousticBrainz project

    Python 136
  6. metabrainz/artwork-redirect

    URL redirect service for the coverartarchive.org

    Python 38

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