It is always much better to discuss things with someone if you know who they are, so go ahead and tell us. Tell us about how you came to discover MusicBrainz, BookBrainz, or whatever *Brainz project that lured you in, tell us about what you do besides obsessing over *Brainz metadata, where in the world are you from? What languages do you speak? What languages do you wish you spoke? What kind of music do you listen to (go ahead and link to MusicBrainz to be specific)? What kind of books do you read (go ahead and link to BookBrainz to be specific)? Or, yāknow, anything else you want to tell us!
'Sup, Iām Brownd from Argentina. Iām currently studying Music Production and play drums in a band. I also sing and am learning bass.
I was introduced to MusicBrainz via Kodi (previously known as XBMC), when I was looking for a music tagger that properly registered collaborations to show up for the individual artists (and with its latest MB-integrated version it simplified the job even more)
Iām open to all kinds of music, and collect a lot of CDs and LPs, but I donāt read many books beyond the ocassional biography or comic.
Hello everyone, Iām drsaunde aka David aka The Crazy Stoned Canadian.
Iāve been mucking about musicbrainz for 10 years now. At one time I was the #1 editor around these parts until some Spanish Estonian dude took over Got started in musicbrainz after being frustrated with incorrect tags and songnames at last.fm (which was probably audioscrobbler at the time), and well I never left.
These days I guess iām the Area guru, or the guy to ask when you need an Area added to the mb database.
Hi! Iām said Spanish Estonian dude, aka reosarevok aka NicolĆ”s aka reotab. Iāve been around for a while, and Iām in charge of customer support and MusicBrainz Style, and also have somehow ended up being one of the go-to people for classical music editing in MusicBrainz.
Iām hoping to start using this forum for style discussion soon, so youāll see more from me on a regular basis!
Hi all! Iāve been on MusicBrainz since 2009, mostly editing Swedish stuff. Iām getting nearer having cleant up my entire collection, finally! Iām super hyped about Discourse as I have got a load of questions saved up, hope I will be seeing you reply.
Iām Jesse, Iāve been on MusicBrainz for (ā¦ goes to look it up ā¦) 6 years. In terms of the data I add, I focus pretty heavily on contra dance (live, trad. bands playing for dancers) and filk (the folk music of science fiction fandom) music, and suspect Iām one of the most active editors in these areas (although itās not much of a contest ). Iāve also done development on various small and medium sized features of the site, although not much lately.
Hey guys!
Iām Simon, Iām from New Zealand, Iām a graphic designer and work a few days as a tour guide at Weta Workshop as well.
Iāve been on MB forā¦ much longer than I thought, originally to tidy up my digital collection, lately to try to keep interesting New Zealand bands and releases up and updated. I also add grindcore, punk and misc stuff from time to time.
And I do a bunch of other shit as well
edit: actually, I think I first used MB to fix up one releaseā¦ which was too hard so I stopped. And then a year later I used it for a year to procrastinate like crazy, and avoid study. And then eventually I actually got genuinely OCD about MB, and here we are!
One of my other hobbies at the moment is to get grumpy about MB/Picard UI and UX
Hello everyone. My name for MB (and in many other places on the net) is davitof (actually, the āfā is for Frederic). I am French. I discovered MB in 2006. The kind of music where I feel the most at home is classical.
I have been in hibernation for 2 years because I had many things to do (radically changing my way of life) and at the same time the MB MLs went dead. Yeah, Iām rather old school, I work essentially with mails. I have now more time available and at the same time Discourse seems to give me back my beloved mails. So Iām back!
Welcome back! Hopefully it will Soonā¢ be possible to reply using e-mail too and you will never have to open a pesky web browser again! (Except for all the MusicBrainz editing of courseā¦)
I am a Frenchman living in Australia, I have been around for a few years and have been mostly contributing in the last couple of years because I want to link the artists I play on my show to MB entities: http://studio-dessai.github.io/
I am mostly interested in electronic, experimental and Free License music.
My name is Philipp aka outsidecontext aka phw I have been around since 2006 as an editor. I like digging through liner notes and getting every detail possible out of them. I am not as active as I used to be anymore, but occasionally you will find me editing, mostly in the Metal and Rock genres.
I also did some MusicBrainz related software development, mostly on Picard. In the last years not as much as I would like to do due to lack of time, but I am still trying to dedicate more time again to this since I really enjoy working on MusicBrainz.
And I try my best to answer Picard related community questions
Iām Ed aka istartedajoke. I first found MusicBrainz in 2005 (which I still tend to think of as āa few years agoā even though that hasnāt been the case for some time ). At the time, I thought it was cool to have āpublic standardsā for all the random MP3s in my collection that had āfeat.ā, āft.ā, etc. Then there was some mashup CD I had that wasnāt in the database - and another, and another, and then my neighborās boyfriend was in a band, and then my housemateā¦
Now that I work with databases daily (Salesforce system administrator since 2010), I have a real appreciation for the sheer amount of data, style standards & continued development of MB. As I have no formal background in computer science, MB is the standard-bearer in my head of āthe way things should be organizedā, and has informed my own work. Kudos & thanks to all developers, editors & users for their dedication
Also, at the risk of sounding sillyā¦ I learned last year from various edits that the ā key isnāt really an apostrophe. It blew my mind.
That being said, while Iāve been an auto-editor for some time, Iāve had almost no community presence (never used IRC, and browsed but I donāt think ever posted the old forums). Now that itās a more intuitive, integrated system, Iāll try to pop in more often! Cheers!
Iām Daniel from Australia.
I joined musicbrainz after using the sound juicer ripper on linux and having it suggest to add the release to musicbrainz. I found out this year that a member of my local linux user group added the feature to sound juicer so itā a small world. After that I have been adding everything that I buy to musicbrainz.
See my (mostly complete) list of releases http://musicbrainz.org/collection/cd866349-1cd8-4cfa-9143-5c544ec0afce
As you can see I have a lot of EDM / dance and have a lot of ministry of sound compilations.
Iām mainly focused on adding works to musicbrainz when I get around to it.
Hi MusicBrainzers! AzoreanGigolo here, a.k.a. AzoresOne, a.k.a. argoNut on AXA (my āportfolioā here). Took awhile to introduce myself here because I wasnāt aware one could only post 3 times in each thread, so I had to delete oneā¦
Anyways, Iām a Portuguese-Canadian (English is my native language) and I now live in the beautiful islands of the Azores ā the Hawaii of Europe or as I prefer to consider: Hawaii: the Azores of America ā you can read the rest of my short bio at my MBz page.
How I came across MusicBrainz? Donāt recall exactly, but Iām pretty sure it was through Picard. At the time I was pretty happy with MP3 Tag Studio by Magnus Brading and occasionally used Picard on the side. One day I decided to feed it my cousinās incomplete titled opera tracks and what came out the other end was to me simply magic. Been hooked ever since! BTW any known release date for update?
As many users stated about MusicBrainz, I also found it cumbersome back in 2010, tried it a bit and eventually sorta gave upā¦ since I do have many different interests and projects going on at the same time, I do tend to jump from one to another, so itās been an off-and-on thing with MBz but more stable lately.
Iāve also been trying to ācleanā my mp3s, i.e., correctly tag my entire collection as well for years nowā¦ probably still a year or so to go so thatās why you donāt seem me much on forums, etc and why I donāt spend much time voting, something I consider very important.
One of my other goals is to correct and case-correct ALL Portuguese language releases (I donāt agree that itās Sentence case, but thatās another issue).
Cheerio
Hi !
I am from Paris, France. I am a web developer and I have this idea since a long time to create smartphone app where I can scan the barcode of my CDs I have at home and fill in a library of my all I have so when I am in a store, I can tell if I already have this CD or not, or to have the ability to sort my library to improve and it is organizeā¦
This kind of app anyway.
So I was really happy to find your XML service and discover this large community of music lovers!
Hoping I will be able to help anyoneā¦
Regards,
Claude
Hi
I am from Sri Lanka. I am currently a computer science undergraduate and currently in my internship period.
I came across MusicBrainz through [foobar2000] (http://foobar2000.org) they have a MusicBrainz component. . I have this need to keep my music tags clean, organized and with my personal mood, genre tags for easily find what to play. Picard plugins like this are really helping me to do exactly that.
I donāt have much collections in MusicBrainz but these are the stuff i mostly listen to
English is not my native language so I wish i could speak English properly
Tell us about how you came to discover MusicBrainz, BookBrainz, or whatever *Brainz project that lured you in, tell us about what you do besides obsessing over *Brainz metadata, where in the world are you from? What languages do you speak? What languages do you wish you spoke? What kind of music do you listen to (go ahead and link to MusicBrainz to be specific)? What kind of books do you read (go ahead and link to BookBrainz to be specific)? Or, yāknow, anything else you want to tell us!
). Iāve also done development on various small and medium sized features of the site, although not much lately.
Hopefully it will Soonā¢ be possible to reply using e-mail too and you will never have to open a pesky web browser again! 
(Except for all the MusicBrainz editing of courseā¦)
I have been around since 2006 as an editor. I like digging through liner notes and getting every detail possible out of them. I am not as active as I used to be anymore, but occasionally you will find me editing, mostly in the Metal and Rock genres.
). At the time, I thought it was cool to have āpublic standardsā for all the random MP3s in my collection that had āfeat.ā, āft.ā, etc. Then there was some mashup CD I had that wasnāt in the database - and another, and another, and then my neighborās boyfriend was in a band, and then my housemateā¦ 
Been hooked ever since! BTW any known release date for update?
so thatās why you donāt seem me much on forums, etc and why I donāt spend much time voting, something I consider very important.
to keep my music tags clean, organized and with my personal mood, genre tags for easily find what to play. Picard plugins like 