Lorenzo’s Music Podcast Fedi Specials: #12 MusicBrainz - Robert Kaye - Community, Open Source, an...

Tom [@lorenzosmusic@mastodon.social](https://mastodon.social/@lorenzosmusic) meets Robert Kaye, the founder of MusicBrainz [@MusicBrainz@mastodon.social](https://mastodon.social/@MusicBrainz), a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing open source music metadata. With over 25 years of experience in the field, Robert talks about starting the project from the frustration of the privatization of the CDDB database to the creation of MusicBrainz, a platform that has become a resource for musicians and music collectors alike. MusicBrainz was fueled by a desire to democratize music information. Robert explained that when the CDDB database was taken private, it inspired the need for a community-driven solution, so he launched MusicBrainz, which allows users to contribute to and access a database of music information. They also talk about the MusicBrainz tagging software, Picard, which helps users manage their music collections' ID3 information. Robert says, "If somebody takes a thousand