MusicBrainz Server

Dear VLC: In the last month you grew to more than 25% of our traffic and this is hard for us to handle. We’ve limited the number of requests from VLC to 100 requests per 10 seconds. We need to find a way to help cover our costs for all of this traffic. In other words, we [...]

Jess Hemerly, who is has been studying MusicBrainz as part of a class at UC Berkeley, has devised a survey for MusicBrainz users to get a better understanding of who contributes to MusicBrainz and why. She says: I’m a researcher at UC Berkeley’s School of Information and a MusicBrainz editor (agreatnotion). I’m interested in how and [...]

Sadly, the last round of NGS testing caused some problems. I’ve fixed those problems and restarted the replication feed again. Follow these instructions to get your replication started again: Download and install the mb_server source code from git. ... [More] Follow these instructions. (Make sure you update this code from the code you may have pulled yesterday) Set your [...] [Less]

Now that we’re (hopefully) done making schema changes to NGS, its time to give the replication testing another try. If you’re interested in testing replication for NGS, follow these instructions: Download and install the mb_server source code from ... [More] git. Follow these instructions. Set your server type in DBDefs.pm to RT_SLAVE Download and import this dataset. Insert this required row [...] [Less]

I’m pleased to announce that we’ve finished hacking on NGS Beta 2! The test server is updated with the beta 2 source code and a fresh data dump (20100616 complete with 119,000 old edits migrated). To play with NGS Beta 2, head over to the test server and log in with your normal MusicBrainz username/password. If [...]

I’m pleased to announce that Oliver Charles (acid2) has agreed to hack on MusicBrainz full time. Aside from some vacation time in July, Oliver will be working full time starting now. Along with the grant engineer from the Queen Mary Linked Data grant we will have four full time people working on MusicBrainz. We’ve never had [...]

The School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University in London just received a grant to implement a new RDF based web service and a SPARQL endpoint for this web service. The grant will be administered by Queen Mary University and will mean that one developer will be paid for one year to [...]

The kind folks at GigJunkie (thanks Marc and Oliver!) have sorted us a place to meet up on wednesday night: Southwark Rooms at 60 Southwark Street, SE1. The nearest tube stop is London Bridge. We’re going meet there starting at 6pm on Wednesday 16 June. Hope to see you there!

Our hosting provider says: Date: Saturday, 6/05/2010, 11:59 PM Pacific Time to Sunday, 6/06/2010, 01:30 AM Pacific Time Digital West will be performing necessary maintenance to our switch farm. This may result in brief losses (10 seconds to 4 ... [More] minutes) of Internet connectivity between the times listed above, depending on the nature of the service you [...] [Less]

I will be in London again soon and its been a while since we’ve gathered to have a pint. If you’re in or near London and feel like meeting up with other Brainerz, please keep the evening of June 16th open. If anyone has any suggestions for a pub that is reasonably central, but not overly [...]