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libcoverart

Our C/C++ development library geared towards developers who wish to add cover art capabilities to their applications.

See alsoofficial alternatives andthird-party alternatives.

libmusicbrainz

Our C/C++ development library geared towards developers who wish to add MusicBrainz lookup capabilities to their applications.

See alsothird-party alternatives.

libdiscid

Our C library for creating MusicBrainz disc IDs from audio CDs.

See alsolanguage bindings andthird party alternatives.

• https://github.com/lalinsky/musicbrainz-bot
  • https://github.com/murdos/musicbrainz-bot (a fork of lalinsky's one)
• https://github.com/Borewit/musicbrainz-augmentation
• https://github.com/FelixRilling/musicbrainz-enricher

A full list of users with the bot flag can be found onhttp://musicbrainz.org/privileged

MusicBrainz web API

The REST-based webservice API for direct access to MusicBrainz data with output in XML and JSON (Please review the libraries above before writing your own implementation).

See also:MusicBrainz API/Examples

Search requests andIndexed Search Syntax

XML RelaxNG schema

Release Editor Seeding: Providing programmatic information to the release editor (from another site or an application), the closest we have to an edit API as yet

(internal) JS autocomplete API

Server setup

TheMusicBrainz Server is not available as an executable application. Setting up the server will require you to checkout the source code and follow the INSTALL file's instructions.

TheMusicBrainz Database contains all the metadata information available on musicbrainz.org and it's free for anyone todownload and make use of it (and we encourage this!). Setting it up will require access to a PostgreSQL database. See instructions fromserver setup or use third-party[1].

Server environment variables that may prove useful

Search Server Setup andSearch Indexer Setup if you're brave enough to want to try.

Embedded metadata

Picard Tag Mapping: The documentation for howPicard maps concepts to tags; useful if you want to use these tags elsewhere, or if you'd like to follow the same standard.

See also:ID3v2.4.0

Disc IDs and Tagging

MusicBrainz Identifier

Picard Development

Plugin API Documentation

Picard Tag Mapping

Building on Windows

Building on macOS

Communicating with other developers

IRC: Here's where you ask questions of real live people, if anyone's awake. You love it, you know it.

Forum: And here's where you ask if we aren't awake, or for anything style-related or needing more consideration than can be easily given in IRC.

MusicBrainz Summits: These happen occasionally, and people get together and talk about MusicBrainz. You should consider coming! Even if not, the discussions had here are sometimes important, and might be worth perusing.

The Musicbrainz bug tracker