An open metadata database for music videos — think TMDb, MusicBrainz, and TheTVDB, but for music videos. A companion project to Playarr.
TheMusicVideoDB aims to become the definitive open database for music video metadata — artists, tracks, albums, release dates, directors, labels, and more.
Just as TheMovieDB catalogues films, MusicBrainz catalogues audio recordings, and TheTVDB catalogues television — TheMusicVideoDB will catalogue music videos, providing structured data that tools like Playarr can use to automatically enrich your library.
The project is currently in early development. The database, API, and community features are being designed and built. Stay tuned!
Playarr is the self-hosted music video manager that will be the first consumer of TheMusicVideoDB.
Paste a YouTube or Vimeo URL and Playarr downloads, analyses, and imports the video into your library automatically.
Automatically enriches your videos with data from MusicBrainz, Wikipedia, and optional AI providers.
Files are renamed, sorted into artist/album folders, and tagged with Kodi-compatible NFO sidecars.
Loudness is adjusted to a consistent LUFS target using ffmpeg EBU R128 — no more volume jumping between tracks.
A dark-themed React UI with library grid, hover previews, inline playback, and full entity pages for artists and albums.
Optionally use OpenAI, Gemini, Claude, or local Ollama models for metadata verification and scene analysis.
Playarr and TheMusicVideoDB are free, open-source projects built with love. If you find them useful, consider sponsoring development via GitHub Sponsors.