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over 5 years
ago
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leoverto
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 […]
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over 5 years
ago
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Rashi Sah
Here comes an end to a fantastic summer for this year and time to wrap up my GSoC project which I have been working in for the last 3 months (the official GSoC coding period). Hello people!! I am Rashi Sah, an undergraduate student at the National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur. I have been working […]
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over 5 years
ago
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kartikeyash
Hi, I’m Kartikeya Sharma, a postgrad student at National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur. I’ve worked on the project MessyBrainz as a student developer for GSoC 2018. Robert Kaye mentored me during this GSoC programme. The goal of my project is associating MBIDs to MSIDs and clustering together the MSIDs which represents the same MBID. The […]
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over 5 years
ago
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Sambhav Kothari
This is a minor release that fixes a lot of crashes and unicode errors on certain platforms. It also reverts a scripting improvement (PICARD-259) which had caused a couple of scripting bugs (PICARD-1207). Scripting now works exactly like Picard 1.4. As usual, you can find the latest downloads on Picard’s Website. The change-log is as follows […]
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over 5 years
ago
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Sambhav Kothari
This is a minor release that fixes some crashes due to logging events and compatibility issues on Macs running on dual-core processors. I would like to extend a word of thanks to Francois Ferrand and Ryan McKern, following whose advice, bitmap was able to successfully fix our macOS packaging and code-signing issues, details of which can […]
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over 5 years
ago
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Sambhav Kothari
Hello everyone, As you might know, we recently released Picard 2.0 stable. One of the major problems with the macOS version of the same is that is very unreliable. It works perfectly on some systems and doesn’t on others with the same macOS version. See PICARD-1212 for example. Another major problem we are facing is code-signing […]
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over 5 years
ago
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Sambhav Kothari
Note – There are no changes for Linux users, so they can safely skip this release if they want. Given the massive feedback about the shortcomings of the Windows and macOS versions of Picard, we decided to do a minor release addressing some of the issues with our executables. As usual, you can find the […]
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Posted
over 5 years
ago
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Sambhav Kothari
Hey people, samj1912 here again o/ This time we are announcing the release of a new Picard! Official MusicBrainz cross-platform music tagger Picard 2.0 is now out, containing many fixes and new features and much needed upgrades! The last time we put out a major release was more than 6 years ago (Picard 1.0 in […]
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Posted
almost 6 years
ago
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yvanzo
The new search is live on MusicBrainz with this server update, as announced in previous blog post. This release also continues the rewrite to React, improves and fixes the handling of external URLs. The git tag is v-2018-06-30. Sub-task [MBS-9736] – Convert the artist search results page to React Bug [MBS-9730] – Cannot link to […]
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Posted
almost 6 years
ago
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Sambhav Kothari
Hey folks, samj1912 here again o/ As you might know, we recently did a massive upgrade of our search infrastructure. To read more about it check out our other blog detailing our Search server journey. We have had a beta run with Solr this last week and fixed most of the show-stopping bugs. As such, […]
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