MusicBrainz Enabled Applications
A list of applications that have MusicBrainz support built in.
- ListenBrainz Enabled Applications
- Developers, to use MusicBrainz in your application, see MusicBrainz Database or MusicBrainz API.
- Many more miscellaneous MusicBrainz and ListenBrainz tools are listed in External Resources.
Media players and centers
| Title | Type | Info | Link/s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aural Player | Player | An audio player for macOS, inspired by Winamp for Windows. Can retrieve cover art from MusicBrainz for tracks that don't have it embedded. | github |
| Cloudtunes | Player | A free and open source web-based music player that unify between music stored in cloud (Youtube, DropBox, etc) and uses MusicBrainz data for music metadata. | github |
| Jellyfin | Media streamer | Open-source media server software which uses MusicBrainz to get several musical metadata especially about Artists, their ids, biographies(if it's available), songs/productions etc. | website |
| Kjams Karaoke | Various | A cross-platform karaoke jukebox / media library / tagger / Ripper, and rotation management system that rips, plays, and burns Audio CDs, and CD+G / MP3+G (Karaoke), and plays most multimedia files. Built in Music stores for streaming / purchase. Uses MusicBrainz data for looking up metadata. | website |
| Kodi | Media streamer | A cross-platform software media center for playing videos, music, pictures, games, and more. It uses MusicBrainz to improve its music experience. | website |
| Lightweight Music Server | Media streamer | LMS is self-hosted music streaming software which uses MusicBrainz identifiers to handle duplicated artist and release names. Submits listens to and synchronizes favorites with ListenBrainz. | github |
| Plex | Media streamer | Plex is a cross-platform media center, using MusicBrainz data to improve its music experience. | website |
| SonicStreamer | Media streamer | Media streaming software that allows you to access you music from anywhere else. Supports MusicBrainz for getting an showing additional data about the music in the library (since version 2.4). | gitlab |
| Tauon Music Box | Player | An Audio Player for Linux putting the emphasis on playlists and importing from remote sources. Can fetch cover art from MusicBrainz and Fanart.tv plus submit listens to ListenBrainz and/or Last.fm | website |
| Tuneify | Player | A music app that uses the YouTube API for song play and MusicBrainz data for information/metadata. | github |
| VLC media player | Player | A free and open source cross-platform multimedia player that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. Uses MusicBrainz data for looking up information/metadata as well as cover art from Cover Art Archive. | website |
| mpMPD | Media streamer | Standalone and mobile friendly web mpd client with a tiny footprint and advanced features. Supports MBID tags and submitting listens and love/hate feedback to ListenBrainz. | github |
Media libraries
The following music library managers can tag your files with MusicBrainz data.
| Title | Info | Link/s |
|---|---|---|
| Amarok | A music player for KDE. It supports many multimedia frameworks (like GStreamer, XINE, and aRts) to play music media and streams, and features a fresh and efficient approach to playlist handling. The emphasis is on the quick and easy user interface, allowing for fast access to the media library. Amarok versions 1.1 through 1.4.x supported lookups via MusicBrainz [1], and versions starting from 2.4 support it again [2]. | website |
| AudioExpert | A Music Organizer Software to tidy, manage, clean up, align, sort, join/merge, and organize music archives resp. music libraries. Supported formats are MP3, MP4, M4A, WMA, OGG, FLAC, MPC, WAV and AAC. | website |
| beets | A flexible command-line music library manager written in Python. It includes a tag corrector and album art downloader that use MusicBrainz as their backend. | website |
| Clementine | A multiplatform music player. It is inspired by Amarok 1.4, focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and playing your music. | website |
| foobar2000 | An advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Some of its features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats. Support for MusicBrainz has been added with MusicBrainzTagger and it can use MusicBrainz data to tag media files and audio CDs. | website |
| MediaMonkey | A media management library with features like identifying tracks and tagging music. It has a Musicbrainz Tagger addon which identifies tracks using data sourced from the MusicBrainz database. | website |
| Mixxx | Free open-source DJ software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It supports getting information from MusicBrainz. | website |
| MusicBee | A free digital media player and media library application for organizing and playing audio on Microsoft Windows operating systems using the BASS Audio Library [3]. | website |
| Quod Libet | A n open-source, free and cross-platform(Linux, Windows, MacOS) audio player as well as a tag editor. Among its over 60 plugins, there is one which permits automatic tagging using MusicBrainz. Supported formats include: MP3, Ogg Vorbis / Speex / Opus, FLAC, Musepack, MOD/XM/IT, Wavpack, MPEG-4 AAC, WMA, MIDI, Monkey’s Audio. | website |
| Rhythmbox | An integrated music management application, originally inspired by Apple's iTunes. It is free software, designed to work well under the GNOME Desktop, and based on the powerful GStreamer media framework. | gitlab |
| Strawberry Music Player | A music player and music collection organizer which uses MusicBrainz to get album cover arts and several musical metadata such as artist ids, song ids, album ids etc. | website |
| Was an audio management and playback application for the GNOME Desktop, allowing users to import audio from CDs, search their library, create playlists of selections of their library, sync music to/from iPods, and burn selections to a CD. | archive |
Taggers
The following taggers will tag your music files with MusicBrainz data.
Official
| Title | Info | Link/s |
|---|---|---|
| MusicBrainz Picard | A cross platform (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows) album oriented MusicBrainz tagger with support for acoustic fingerprinting of MP3, WAV, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MPC, MP4 and WMA formats. | website |
Affiliated taggers
| Title | Info | Link/s |
|---|---|---|
| AudioRanger | A music tagger designed to automatically identify and organize audio files and entire music collections. It supports all commonly used audio file formats. A feature-rich free version is available. AudioRanger is a part of the Tagger Affiliate Program and pays 10% of every purchase to MusicBrainz. | website |
| mp3tag | A powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit metadata (ID3, Vorbis Comments and APE) of common audio formats. It can rename files based on the tag information, replace characters or words from tags and filenames, import/export tag information, create playlists and more. The program supports online freedb database lookups for selected files, allowing you to automatically gather proper tag information for select files or CDs. Mp3tag is a part of the Tagger Affiliate Program and pays 10% of every purchase to MusicBrainz. | Windows/mac |
| Yate Music Tagger | A Mac OS X based tagger for mp3, m4a, FLAC and AIFF files. Supports MusicBrainz, Discogs and integration with iTunes. Actions providing scripting can be run interactively or in a batch mode. Yate Music Tagger is a part of the Tagger Affiliate Program and pays 10% of every purchase to MusicBrainz. | website |
Other taggers
| Title | Info | Link/s |
|---|---|---|
| Flactag | A Linux console based tagger for single album FLAC files with embedded CUE sheets. The tags are downloaded from the MusicBrainz service and can be written to the FLAC file as Vorbis comments. Once tagged, the file can be renamed based on a 'template' naming scheme. | website |
| ID3 renamer | A free program for the renaming of files and ID3 tags. It can rename a large number of files in a directory accordingly to their ID3 description and a given "formula" (e.g. (%Track) %Artist - %Title), remove the diacritics and clean portions of the ID3 tag. The program searches through freedb for identical albums and MusicBrainz by album name, artist and number of tracks. | website |
| Kid3 | A cross-platform free audio tagger. It imports album data from many sources, most notably from gnudb.org, TrackType.org, MusicBrainz, Discogs and Amazon. | website |
| Kitsune | A free player/tagger for Japanese and Russian music. It supports MusicBrainz lookup for artists and recordings, and will only scrobble to last.fm if a correct name was found in MusicBrainz. It will use chromaprint to identify music from a Japanese web radio station or anime related music. | archive |
| Jaikoz | A powerful tagger available for macOS, Windows and Linux making use of MusicBrainz, Discogs and AcoustId. | website |
| Metadatics | A powerful audio metadata editor for macOS which supports several file types, including but not limited to, MP3, M4A, AIFF, WAV, FLAC, APE, OGG, WMA. It uses MusicBrainz to search for tags. | website |
| Metatogger | A tag editor allowing you to rename, tag and easily sort your MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, WMA and M4A files. Metatogger permits automatic tagging using data from the Musicbrainz platform or using Acoustid acoustic fingerprint technology. Covers can be found via the Cover Art Archive. | website |
| One Tagger | A cross-platform tagger for DJs. It can fetch metadata from Beatport, Traxsource, Juno Download, Discogs, Musicbrainz and Spotify. It can also fetch audio features from Spotify, has a manual tag editor, allows for quick tagging with keyboard shortcuts and rename files with templates. | website |
| Puddletag | An audio tag editor that is primarily created for GNU/Linux. It uses a spreadsheet-like layout so that all the tags are visible and easily editable. Puddletag imports tag information from online databases like freedb, Discogs, MusicBrainz AcoustID and Amazon (also by text-search). | website |
| SongKong | An intelligent music tagger application. SongKong is simple and powerful at the same time and it can help you manage, organize and clean up your digital music collection. SongKong uses intelligent acoustic matching from Acoustid to find song matches in a case of no information. SongKong uses their JThink Music Server, which is regularly updated from the MusicBrainz and Discogs databases to serve you song matches depending on the information available. It is available for MacOS, Windows, Linux and Docker supporting devices such as Synology Intel Disk Stations. | website |
| TagEditor | A tag editor allows you to easily batch tagging MP3, AIFF, WAV, FLAC, MP4, M4A files and renaming audio files through a handy spreadsheet. The program supports the users to easily download music metadata and artworks from AcoustID, MusicBrainz and Cover Art Archive. It is available for MacOS only. | website |
| TagScanner | Edits tags of most modern audio formats, supports ID3v1/v2, Vorbis comments, APEv2, WMA and MP4(iTunes) tags. The user has the liberty to get album info and download covers through online databases such as freedb, Discogs or MusicBrainz. The software is available on Windows in over a dozen languages. | website |
| TigoTago | A spreadsheet-based tag editor for media files, using MusicBrainz to lookup CD album information. There is a tutorial available showing how to use it with MusicBrainz as the data source. | website |
| Zortam Mp3 Media Studio | An all-in-one MP3 application suite. It has several modules including a MP3 Auto Tagger, and supports MusicBrainz as a data source. | website |
CD rippers
The following programs will rip your CDs and use MusicBrainz to tag the new files.
| Title | Info | Link/s |
|---|---|---|
| abcde | A command line ripper for *nix. Can be configured to use MusicBrainz. | website |
| CUERipper | An open-source CD Ripper for Windows. It supports MusicBrainz. | website |
| cyanrip | A command-line interface audio CD ripper that focuses on accuracy over speed and offers many advanced features without any bloat. Supports AccurateRip and MusicBrainz. | github |
| dBpoweramp CD Ripper | A secure CD ripper for Windows and OS X. It supports MusicBrainz. | website |
| Exact Audio Copy | A secure CD ripper for Windows. It comes bundled with a MusicBrainz plugin for automated CD lookups as well as a CueTools DB Metadata Plugin which can fetch album metadata from MusicBrainz. | website |
| Express Rip | A CD ripping program for Windows that lets you extract digital audio tracks directly from audio CDs to mp3 or wav audio files. It uses MusicBrainz as its source for getting metadata about releases. Here is how it works. | website |
| EZ CD Audio Converter | A multi-language CD ripper, audio converter, metadata editor and disc burner. It supports MusicBrainz. | website |
| RipIt | A command line ripper that can rip to a number of formats. It can be set to use MusicBrainz for looking up release information. | website |
| Sound Juicer | A clean, mean, and lean CD ripper for GNOME 2. It sports a clean interface and simple preferences, aiming to do The Right Thing and What You Mean all of the time. It requires GNOME 2.14 and GStreamer 0.10. Sound Juicer is shipped with Ubuntu. | website |
| X Lossless decoder (XLD) | A tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding. It works on Mac OS X 10.4 and later. | website |
| whipper | A fork of morituri, a powerful command line ripper for *nix aiming at creating precise audio rips. It uses MusicBrainz as its sole source for release metadata. | github |
| A powerful command line ripper for *nix that aims at creating precise audio rips. It uses MusicBrainz as its source for getting metadata about releases (defunct: continued in the whipper fork, see above). | github |
Mobile Apps
| Title | Info | Link/s |
|---|---|---|
| FestivalGuide | An Android app to organize your festival season, find out which festival fits the best for your taste and keep track on the artists you have seen. Uses MusicBrainz artist and event data. | Google Store/codeberg |
| nusic | An app to notify you about new releases of the artists of tagged songs on your phone. It makes periodic requests to MusicBrainz to check if new releases have been added. | github |
| Was an app that downloaded missing album art from last.fm and MusicBrainz for your albums. It had a built-in media scanner, custom searches by artist or album and did auto-lookups of album art when a new album was added. | archive | |
| Allowed you to recommend movies, series, books and music with your friends. You would also know if your interests were similar and you would be able to track what you've seen and what not. Catchy integrated MusicBrainz and CoverArtArchive in its application to perform its services. | archive |
Websites
| Title | Info | Link/s |
|---|---|---|
| AlbumArtwork | Animated album artwork background, inspired by Apple’s macOS inbuilt iTunes Screensaver. Use Wallpaper Engine's 'web page' feature to set to your desktop background. | github |
| ChartBrainz | Allows you to view top rated albums based on year and genre, using MusicBrainz data. | github |
| muspy | A new album notification service (by email or RSS), using MusicBrainz data. | website/github |
| Record Club | A social music network that makes it easy to track, rate, review and compile lists of your favorite releases with a community of other music fans. | website |
| SensCritique | A French review website which imports artist, album and cover art from MusicBrainz for its music section. | website |
| setlist.fm | A database for collecting and sharing setlists of events. Among other artists are imported from MB, ties them to a MBID and enriched by album and song information. | website |
| Was a social platform for tracking, rating and reviewing music. Aggregates artist and album data from MB among other. | archive |