MusicBrainz Server

If anyone would like to test out the NGS replication, which I’ve setup from the test server, follow these instructions: Download and install the mb_server source code from SVN trunk. Follow these instructions. Set your server type in DBDefs.pm to ... [More] RT_SLAVE Download and import this dataset. Insert this required row into the database, using our psql program: cd /admin ./psql READWRITE insert [...] [Less]

The database on the test server has been updated with the latest data and search indexes to match the latest work that ijabz’ has done. This update was in preparation for testing the replication system, which I’ll invite the general public to try in a few hours. IMPORTANT NOTE: The passwords on the test server are [...]

After many years of discussion, planning and hard work, we’ve finally reached the much anticipated Next Generation Schema Beta 1 release! For all the information on this release, please take a look at our release notes. Then head over to the test server and play with it! Most important of all, please note that we are using [...]

I’m pleased to announce that we’re almost ready to release beta 1 of the much anticipated Next Generation Schema. All of the important core functions are complete and we’ve even done a first round of sanity checking to make sure what what we release will be useful. We won’t have all of the features for [...]

I’m pleased to announce that the MetaBrainz Foundation has hired its first full time developer! On Februrary 1, 2010, Kuno Woudt will join Oliver Charles on the MusicBrainz development team and both of them will focus to finish NGS as soon as possible. With Kuno we are effectively tripling the engineering capacity we have dedicated [...]

Navap undertook a re-write of our privacy policy page to make the page more consistent and better organized. However, the actual policy did not change — just the wording/formatting of the page has changed. Please take a look at the diff of the changes and the new page. (This post is mostly only for full disclosure — [...]

We’ve just finished our 10th MusicBrainz Summit, this time held in Nürnberg, Germany. It was a great success, with a number of participants and a lot of discussion! This time, we’ve managed to note all the discussions. So, if you missed the summit and want to catch up on what we talked about, head over [...]

Picard 0.12.1 is an important hotfix release. Due to a bug Picard 0.12 deletes all ID3 comment tags (COMM frames) when saving files. In addition this release restores the native file dialog when adding folders on Windows. Picard 0.12.1 is available for download for Windows and Linux. Sorry for the trouble.

The VMWare image has been updated for the 2009-05-24 server release. The previous image was getting old and updating steps have been reported not easy. The new image has been upgraded to Debian 5.0, includes a more recent Linux kernel and uses PosgreSQL 8.3 (the required version to work on NGS). To download and play with the [...]

The fabulous Music Hack Day is happening in Boston on November 21-22. Sadly, I will be in London/Hamburg that weekend and can’t make it to Boston. The organizers have requested that we have someone represent MusicBrainz at the hack day. Are there any MusicBrainzers who live in/near Boston who would like to go to the [...]