MusicBrainz
Open, community-maintained encyclopedia and database of music metadata.
HN commenters value MusicBrainz as a music metadata resource1234 for identifying and tagging personal music libraries.56 The most common complaint is poor user experience, including a tagger you must open and point at files manually,78 and one commenter dislikes its focus on listing every edition of an album.9
Why people recommend it
Valued resource · 3
Commenters praise the project and thank it for its work.
“MusicBrainz[1] is also doing god's work.”
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“Shoutout to MusicBrainz.”
Tagging and identification · 3
Used to tag and identify tracks in local music collections.
“a combination of beets and MusicBrainz for tagging”
“identifying and categorizing those imports using Musicbrainz”
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Caveats and dissent
User experience · 2
The UX is called horrible, and a separately launched tagger is called poor UX.
“MusicBrainz is an excellent resource marred by horrible user experience”
Edition overload · 1
One commenter dislikes its focus on listing every country and format of an album.
“MusicBrainz is an excellent resource marred by horrible user experience”
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Data: musicbrainz.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 6
“I love MusicBrainz for everything they did”
“MusicBrainz is an excellent resource marred by horrible user experience”
“identifying and categorizing those imports using Musicbrainz”
“MusicBrainz[1] is also doing god's work.”
“Shoutout to MusicBrainz.”
“a combination of beets and MusicBrainz for tagging”