Become a sponsor to MetaBrainz Foundation
Hello!
We're the MetaBrainz Foundation, a California non-profit that believes in free, open access to data. The foundation has been set up to build community maintained databases using open source software and make them available in the public domain or under Creative Commons licenses.
Our data is mostly gathered by volunteers and verified by peer review to ensure it is consistent and correct. All non-commercial use of this data is free, but commercial users are asked to support us in order to help fund the project. We encourage all our users to contribute to the data gathering process so that it can be as comprehensive as possible.
We've created the MusicBrainz, Picard Music Tagger and Cover Art Archive projects that are widely used throughout the world. We're currently also working hard on AcousticBrainz and ListenBrainz, two new projects designed to provide new services and allow us to gather more data that we can use to create open source music recommendation engines. Our most recent project is the BookBrainz project that hopes to apply everything we've learned from music to books.
Any support that you decide to give us will be used to fund our developers and our hosting operations. We have a small team of developers and a modest collection of servers that serve millions of API/web page requests every day. If you are curious about how we spend our money, please take a look at our public financial statements.
Meet the team
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Laurent Monin zasSystem administration
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Michael Wiencek mwiencekMusicBrainz lead
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Monkey Do MonkeyDoBookBrainz lead
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Robert Kaye mayhemMetaBrainz lead geek
Featured work
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metabrainz/picard
MusicBrainz Picard audio file tagger
Python 3,671 -
metabrainz/musicbrainz-server
Server for the MusicBrainz project (website, API, database tools)
Perl 831 -
metabrainz/listenbrainz-server
Server for the ListenBrainz project, including the front-end (javascript/react) code that it serves and all of the data processing components that LB uses.
Python 669 -
metabrainz/musicbrainz-docker
Docker Compose project for the MusicBrainz Server with replication, search, and development setup
Shell 291 -
metabrainz/acousticbrainz-server
The server components for the AcousticBrainz project
Python 137 -
metabrainz/artwork-redirect
URL redirect service for the coverartarchive.org
Python 40
$5 a month
SelectIf you are a Picard user, supporting us with $5 allows us to continue putting effort into developing our capable music collection tagging tool.
$10 a month
SelectSupporting us with $10/month makes you a distinguished MusicBrainz/MetaBrainz fan.
$25 a month
SelectDevoted supporters of our cause are encouraged to donate $25 a month!
$50 a month
SelectSuper fans of MusicBrainz or any of our projects here at the MetaBrainz Foundation can donate $50/month in support of our development efforts.