MusicBrainz Server

We had to postpone the migration of AcousticBrainz last week since we ran out of time (our database is getting to be sizable!). We’ve migrated the bulk of our data and are now ready to move the last bits and call the move complete. Downtime will start very soon — follow us on twitter for […]

Today we’re going to migrate the AcousticBrainz service from its standalone server that we’ve rented in the past few years to our shared infrastructure at Hetzner. We’ve been prepping for this move for a few weeks now and the actual process to follow has been used before, so we don’t expect the downtime to be […]

After 2-ish months of summer vacation I decided to do an “After Summer Special” (name as a reference to After School Specials) By the end of summer I had been working hard… on Debussy instead of instruments! Oops! Once September arrived I realised that I needed to get things back in order, so I set […]

After many years as a community driven project and often under-staffed, the BookBrainz project has always been the red-headed step child of our projects. A few weeks ago I asked if the community felt that we should make BookBrainz an official project of the foundation and got a very positive response. After that, we started […]

Hello! The only constant in the world is change, right? First off, the somewhat sad news: Sambhav, AKA samj1912, has left MetaBrainz the team as a contractor and has moved to London. The upside of this news is that he will continue to work on Picard for us and will remain a part of our […]

This is a minor release that fixes a lot of issues, most notably few annoying crashes and a bunch of audio file formats-specific bugs. I’d like to thank Philip Wolfer (outsidecontext/phw) for the fantastic job he did on this release. As usual, you can find the latest downloads on Picard’s Website. Here is the complete […]

It’s time for Instruments again! Now that I was allowed to create fix versions I set about creating such fix versions! (And also, retroactively (re)creating previous batches where these seemed logical.) This also meant creating JIRA Tickets for ... [More] instruments I had already added without tickets, like the Taonga pūoro instruments. By now, I was also […] [Less]

A new virtual machine for running your own mirror of MusicBrainz is now available. Thanks to InvisibleMan78 for the continuous feedback and to Jeff Sturgis for his work with Docker Compose! This is the last virtual machine to include the soon defunct ... [More] search server. Links: Downloads and documentation Community Bugs Main changes: Added helper script […] [Less]

Hi, I’m Leo and I spent my summer building and training SpamBrainz, our new solution to fighting spam in MusicBrainz. If you haven’t heard of SpamBrainz before it’s probably because it did not exist before this year’s Summer of Code. For quite a while now the amount of spam in MusicBrainz has started to become […]

Hi everyone! I’m Shivam Tripathi, an undergraduate student from the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Una. I interned for the MetaBrainz foundation under the Google Summer of Code programme for the year 2018 and worked on the BookBrainz ... [More] project. I was mentored by Ben Ockmore during this period. This post summarizes my contributions to the […] [Less]