MusicBrainz is an music database. It is similar to the freedb project that aims to create an open data music database. The database captures information about artists, their recorded works, and create the relationships between them.
Client software
Amarok — KDE audio player
Banshee — multi-platform audio player
Beets — automatic CLI music tagger/organiser for Unix-like systems
Clementine — multi-platform audio player
CDex — Microsoft Windows CD ripper
Demlo — a dynamic and extensible music manager using a CLI
iEatBrainz — Mac OS X, deprecated
foo_musicbrainz component for foobar2000 — music library/pudio Player
Jaikoz — Java mass tag editor
Max — Mac OS X CD ripper and audio transcoder
Mp3tag — Windows metadata editor and music organizer
MusicBrainz Picard — cross-platform album-oriented tag editor
MusicBrainz Tagger — deprecated Microsoft Windows tag editor
puddletag — a tag editor for PyQt under the GPLv3
Rhythmbox music player — an audio player for Unix-like systems
Sound Juicer — GNOME CD ripper
Zortam Mp3 Media Studio — Windows music organizer and ID3 tag editor
Freedb clients could also access MusicBrainz data through the freedb protocol by using the MusicBrainz to FreeDB gateway service, mb2freedb. The gateway was shut down on March 18, 2019.