MusicBrainz

Open, volunteer-edited database of music metadata, launched in 2000 in reaction to CDDB's enclosure. Its core data has been in the public domain since 2003, and its identifiers anchor the Music Ontology, BBC Music and Wikidata's music items. [?]

Explore it ↗ musicbrainz.org

Part of the thread Who owns what the crowd built? responds

maintained by

• MetaBrainz Foundation organization 2004 (2004) [src]

alternative to

• CDDB project c. 1993 [src]

responds to

• CDDB project c. 1993 [src]

founded by

• Robert Kaye person 1970–2026 [src]

built upon by

• BBC Music and Programmes linked data project 2007 [src1][src2]
• Freebase project 2007–2016 [src]

[?] Unconfirmed

• description: The link to Wikidata's music items is a summary; Wikidata has MusicBrainz identifier properties, but how widely they are used is not sourced here.

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicBrainz
• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14005