MusicBrainz is an open online database of music metadata, containing information on artists, albums, recordings, labels and the relations between them. It was started by Robert Kaye after the company that ran the CD database CDDB changed its terms and began to charge for access to what volunteers had contributed. MusicBrainz was designed as a community-maintained alternative, with data placed in the public domain or under open licences and a unique identifier for each entity. The project is run by the MetaBrainz Foundation, and its data is used by media players, tagging programs, and services such as ListenBrainz, which collects listening histories. It has become an important open source of music information.
Before and after
- July 2000Discovery of livermorium
- 1 July 2000Construction of Øresund Bridge
- 7 July 2000Founding of East African Community
- 8 July 2000Publication of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- 17 July 2000Launch of MusicBrainz
- 21 July 2000Birth of Erling Haaland
- 7 August 2000Discovery of Kiviuq
- 7 August 2000Discovery of Paaliaq
- 7 August 2000Discovery of Ymir
More in Science & technology
- 1945Invention of computer
- 1971Email
- 1973Mobile phone
- 20 November 1985Creation of Microsoft Windows
- 15 January 2001Wikipedia
- 20 October 2004Creation of Ubuntu
The era
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