Supporters

The following organizations make use of the data-sets published by MetaBrainz and are supporting us financially or through some other reciprocal agreement. There are also organizations that make use of our data that have explicitly declined to support us. There may also be other organizations making use of our data that we don't know about yet. If you know of a company using our data, please contact us. If you want to sign your company up as a supporter, go to our sign up page.

Unicorn tier

For larger companies and mythical situations that require special agreements.

Hubbard Interactive uses the MusicBrainz data to augment the playout data from their radio stations.

Pandora uses MusicBrainz data for comprehensive metadata around musicians and their music.

Last.fm uses MusicBrainz data to correlate and correct user-submitted metadata, and to link listen data to external resources.

Harman International uses MusicBrainz data to augment metadata in user-supplied media files and streaming content as part of their Roon service.

AcoustID links audio fingerprints to MusicBrainz IDs and uses the data in its API to allow people to identify their music.

Universal Music uses the MusicBrainz data to enhance the effectiveness of their own metadata

Plex.tv will use the MusicBrainz data to match users' personal music collections.

Music Choice uses MusicBrainz data to complement their existing music industry metadata.

Spotify uses the MusicBrainz data to gain insights into entities present on the Spotify platform.

SiriusXM uses MusicBrainz data for verifying metadata on media assets.

Orfium uses MusicBrainz to enrich both internal and clients' data, improving the quality of its metadata matching services.

The BBC uses MusicBrainz data in their music pages.

Google uses MusicBrainz data to populate the music data in their Knowledge Graph.

Amazon uses MusicBrainz data in their various music related offerings.

Gold tier

For established companies with more than 20 people and a public product.

Naim uses the MusicBrainz data to look up audio CD metadata in its players.

Silver tier

For mid-size start-ups and established companies with a public product.

Auralic uses MusicBrainz metadata in their Lightning DS App and for ripping audio CDs.

Bronze tier

For popular mobile apps and for small to mid-size start-ups with public products.

BMAT uses MusicBrainz data as part of their broadcast monitoring services.

Mp3tag uses the MusicBrainz API, downloading correct metadata and cover art for tagging music libraries.

Airplay Control uses the MusicBrainz data to improve music cue sheet reporting in their service.

Molindo maps their customer's data to MusicBrainz IDs and then uses the MusicBrainz data to enhance/enrich their customer's data.

ACRCloud uses MusicBrainz IDs in its music fingerprinting database, enabling their customers to connect to the MusicBrainz API to get relevant metadata.

Bryston uses MusicBrainz to enhance the user experience within their high end audio products.

Entertainment Intelligence uses MusicBrainz to fill in the blanks on artists profiles when they get added to their catalogue system.

Olzemusic uses MusicBrainz data to offer the possibility of voting for Artists and Songs and to offer users the possibility of discovering new talents through Online Contests.

Cambridge Audio uses the MusicBrainz API to lookup CD metadata for their audio streaming products and connected CD players.

Emby uses MusicBrainz data to match their user's personal music collections.

SWR uses MusicBrainz IDs in their Visual Radio service.

Wide Angle Software uses MusicBrainz data for Looking up track data for its music apps.

AudD uses the MusicBrainz data to augment their music recognition service results.

The state51 conspiracy uses the MusicBrainz API to monitor artist identifiers in their platform.

Wolfram|Alpha uses MusicBrainz data to answer natural-language queries about music acts, albums, and songs.

Chordify uses the MusicBrainz metadata to improve the data displayed to their users.

KEXP uses MusicBrainz data in its DJ tools, playlist display, and artist discovery tools.

NCH Software uses the MusicBrainz API to improve their user's experience when digitizing audio CDs.

Brennan uses MusicBrainz to look up the metadata for ripping audio CDs.

One Music API uses MusicBrainz data with data from other sources, matching musical entities and allowing multiple forms of query.

Concerty uses the MusicBrainz artist data to deduplicate and improve their own data on upcoming concerts in many cities in the world.

Scream4Me uses the MusicBrainz data to provide more context to their mobile application.

The Open Broadcast Platform uses MusicBrainz metadata to keep its music library organized and to help radio editors completing music profiles.

Everappz uses the MusicBrainz API to provide correct metadata and cover art in their music apps.

Concert Archives uses the MusicBrainz artist data to extend their own artist data and clean up user submitted data.

Spotica Menu shows information about currently playing music from Spotify or Apple Music in the OS X menu bar.

Open Audio Lab uses cover-art images from the Cover Art Archive in its player app yaMPC.

Fanart.tv uses MusicBrainz IDs as its primary reference source for artists and albums.

Volumio uses the MusicBrainz data to provide interesting insights and related links as users explore their own music library.

InstantAudio uses MusicBrainz metadata to display the playout data from radio stations on their website.

Non-profit Organizations tier

For universities and non-profits conducting research, or authors of open-source software using our data.

KAFM uses MusicBrainz data as one of the sources for their music catalog.

WMHB uses MusicBrainz to ensure all music is properly tagged for automated playback on the air.

WUVT uses MusicBrainz data for their open-source track logging system for radio stations.

Finna uses the MusicBrainz data to add MBIDs to their existing music metadata.

CandoFM uses the MusicBrainz data to display information about what music is currently playing.

International Classical Music Database uses MusicBrainz metadata to solve problems posed by classical music related scenarios

Wikidata uses the MusicBrainz data to interconnect and enrich both datasets

nusic uses MusicBrainz to find out about new releases of artists stored on a user's android device and cover art archive to display them

Kodi uses MusicBrainz to lookup artists and releases for use in their scrapers.

CTDB uses the MusicBrainz data for its CUETools, CUERipper and EAC CTDB plugins.

Tomahawk uses MusicBrainz to display discography data in their open source music players.

Exact Audio Copy uses the MusicBrainz to look up the associated metadata for audio CDs.

Brookdale Public Radio uses MusicBrainz data to help organize their music library and display metadata on their website.

KUPS 90.1FM "The Sound” uses MusicBrainz metadata to validate and verify MP3 metadata and is a student run radio station

Vienna University uses the MusicBrainz data for a collection of research projects.

Quod Libet uses MusicBrainz to tag audio files and organize music collections.

QMU uses MusicBrainz data for powering its various research projects.

VLC media player uses MusicBrainz to look up CD data as well as finding cover art for releases.

Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona uses MusicBrainz for projects in their Music Technology Group.