metabrainz
A California 501.c.3 non-profit organization running MusicBrainz and other open data/open source projects.
Funding Links: https://metabrainz.org/donate, https://github.com/sponsors/metabrainz
- Name: MetaBrainz Foundation
- Location: Online
- Kind: organization
- Followers: 429
- Following: 0
- Total stars: 7374
- Repositories count: 177
- Created at: 2022-11-02T21:07:30.475Z
- Updated at: 2025-03-25T01:03:53.380Z
- Last synced at: 2025-03-25T01:03:53.379Z
GitHub Sponsors Profile
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.
- Current Sponsors: 15
- Past Sponsors: 27
- Total Sponsors: 42
- Minimum Sponsorship: $5.00
Featured Works
metabrainz/picard
Picard is a cross-platform music tagger powered by the MusicBrainz database
Language: Python - Stars: 3994metabrainz/musicbrainz-server
Server for the MusicBrainz project (website, API, database tools)
Language: Perl - Stars: 886metabrainz/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.
Language: Python - Stars: 747metabrainz/musicbrainz-docker
Docker Compose project for the MusicBrainz Server with replication, search, and development setup
Language: Shell - Stars: 339metabrainz/acousticbrainz-server
The server components for the AcousticBrainz project
Language: Python - Stars: 143metabrainz/artwork-redirect
URL redirect service for the coverartarchive.org
Language: Python - Stars: 43Active Sponsors
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- User: 35
- Organization: 1
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- User: 6
- Organization: 3