Date: Feb. 19, 2001
Link: http://musicbrainz.org/MM/
Source Author or Organization: MusicBrainz Metadata Initiative, MusicBrainz.org

The MusicBrainz Metadata Initiative was formed to organize a means of exchanging metadata describing media files on the Internet. The vocabulary was employed in the development of MusicBrainz Metadata (formerly CD Index Project), a Dublin Core-based metadata application and free web service that uses XML and the Resource Description Framework (RDF) to make artist names, track numbers, song titles and other metadata describing musical content downloadable to the user's CD player, MP3 player, Vorbis player, or other client.

This document describes an RDF namespace and the MusicBrainz qualifiers for Dublin Core Elements to be used within metadata queries. The first player to fully support MusicBrainz is FreeAmp.