MusicBrainz Server

My Music Collection from Nuclear Coffee just joined our Tagger Affiliate program (never mind that its not a tagger. ): My Music Collection provides you with an innovative way to organize and manage your CDs, vinyl records and other media. This music collection software is designed to meet the needs any kind of collectors [...]

For anyone who wishes to take a look at our new release editor, its now live on test.musicbrainz.org . Use your normal MusicBrainz account credentials to log in. Click on this link to view an example release. There are still many things that are missing from this release editor and we need to wait for Warp [...]

I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news? NGS Beta 2 will be delayed by 4 weeks until June 21st. The good news? Read on! The main reason why we’re having to slip the release is that we’ve finally found a UX design volunteer (Alisa Lemberg aka Aleeeza) who has been working [...]

For many years I’ve espoused MusicBrainz should collect enough information that would allow us to track connections between disparate artists through a game of six degrees of separation. And now Paul Lamere from the EchoNest has done exactly this for Music Hack Day San Francisco. Six degrees of Black Sabbath allows you to enter two [...]

Digital West (our hosting company) will be performing switch maintenance tomorrow: Date: Saturday, 5/22/2010, 11:59 PM Pacific Time to 12:30 AM Pacific Time Digital West will be performing necessary maintenance to our switch farm. This may result ... [More] in brief losses (10 seconds to 4 minutes) of Internet connectivity between the times listed above, depending on the [...] [Less]

The 2010-05-11 data dump is now available for import into the NGS codebase. Its been successfully imported by a few people. If you want fresher data for your NGS install, import this data into the most recent codebase.

RJ (Richard Jones), creator of Playdar and one of the founders of Last.fm, has just pledged to donate $50,000 to the MetaBrainz Foundation! This awesome donation will allow us to renew Kuno Woudt’s contract in a few months and will allow us to continue at a good development pace. Thank you for your generous support, RJ!

Congratulations to the following students for being accepted to Summer of Code for MusicBrainz: Jamie McDonald (jdamcd): MusicBrainz Android Mobile Application Sean Burke (leftmost): Improve collections feature Jens Lukas (jensl): Development of an ... [More] iPhone application for MusicBrainz We’re currently in the community bonding period and work on these projects will start soon. Currently Jens and Jamie are reconciling [...] [Less]

I’m very pleased to announce that the BBC has extracted a small chunk of its sizable Orpheus classical works database! The Orpheus database contains 114,160 works in total, with 206,179 sub-parts. The first 1000 works are serialized into XML here: ... [More] Works Parties Forms Some notes about this data: The parties data hasn’t been matched to MusicBrainz artists yet. Nearly all [...] [Less]

After much scheduling and getting our ducks in a row, we’re pleased to announce the final beta release of NGS on May 24th! This is one year after our last release, so this date is a little bitter/sweet for us. I had hoped to get this release out before then, but the team is making [...]