The first beta version 0.1.0 of RBrainz, a Ruby library to access the MusicBrainz webservice, has just been released.

This first release has the following features:
- Support of most of the MusicBrainz data model, including the new labels and extended release events.
- Query the MusicBrainz webservice for artists, releases, tracks and labels by their MusicBrainz ID.

Support for querying collections and for relations between entities will be implemented in the next releases.

I would appreciate feedback on RBrainz, even though the software is in an very early stage of development.

RBrainz is installable as a gem, so just run "gem install rbrainz" and you should be able to use the library.

For more information about using RBrainz see the API documentation on:
http://rbrainz.rubyforge.org/

Download:
http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=3677