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Posted over 6 years ago by ruaok
Since we released the beta of ListenBrainz six weeks ago, people have moved over and imported their listen histories onto the beta site, which is great. While we think that everyone who needs to migrate listens off the old server has already done so, we’re going to give people another 30 days in case anyone […]
Posted over 6 years ago by mwiencek
We plan to have some brief downtime on Thursday, September 14 at around 15:00 UTC for essential upgrades and maintenance across our servers. Thanks for your understanding! Edit: Maintenance complete! Let us know if you experience any issues.Filed under: Hosting
Posted over 6 years ago by Freso
Here’s the second round of board meeting minutes. We have had board meetings both in November and in May, but the November board meeting only consisted of Robert, Sophie, Rassami, and Matthew meeting up in London approving the minutes of the prior meeting and agreeing to only hold 3 meetings in 2016. So we decided […]
Posted over 6 years ago by ruaok
As the world comes back to life after the summer break, we’re making some changes and expanding our team. First, Roman Tsukanov has decided to not renew his contract with us. During his tenure with MetaBrainz, Roman adopted and released CritiqueBrainz and also wrote our new MetaBrainz web page, which is helping us bring in […]
Posted over 6 years ago by phwolfer
Updated Picard packages for Ubuntu are available over the official MusicBrainz Ubuntu PPAs. For most users it is recommended to use the stable PPA to install the latest stable release of Picard (1.4.2 at the time of writing this): sudo ... [More] add-apt-repository ppa:musicbrainz-developers/stable sudo apt update sudo apt install picard Up-to-date stable packages are available for […] [Less]
Posted over 6 years ago by mwiencek
We’ve been focusing on finishing up some overdue schema change features (alternative tracklists, for one) and doing various refactorings/making some under-the-hood changes, which is why there hasn’t been a release in a while. But here’s a few small ... [More] fixes that have accumulated. The git tag is v-2017-09-04. Bug [MBS-9409] – Error merging mediums with and […] [Less]
Posted over 6 years ago by Sambhav Kothari
This story of summer started in a dull grey winter at home. Bored, I started lingering around IRC channels and much like the Alice of Wonderland, stumbled into the wonderful world of FOSS. Little did I know, it was gonna be one of the best things that happened to me. Below is a story of […]
Posted over 6 years ago by psolanki
Hello! I am Pinank Solanki, an undergrad at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi, India. I worked with the MetaBrainz Foundation on one of its projects, as part of the Google Summer of Code 2017 over the last summer. It was one of the best and exciting summers I ever had. Let me begin from […]
Posted over 6 years ago by leoverto
It’s hard to stress how much MusicBrainz depends on the community behind it. In 2016 alone 20.989 editors made a total of 5.935.653 edits at a continuously increasing rate. But while MusicBrainz does collect data on a lot of different entities, its users are not one of them, and the privacy policy is pretty lean. […]
Posted almost 7 years ago by yvanzo
This release mainly fixes some bugs around reorganized lyrics languages for work, and includes a few small improvements. Thanks to Zastai for fixing events browsing for area. The git tag is v-2017-06-19. Bug [MBS-8757] – Error browsing events by area [MBS-9338] – Can’t add languages to existing works that have none set [MBS-9341] – “0 […]