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MetaBrainz sponsored Music Hack Day London 2014 and we had agreed to provide a prize for one of the winners. We thought that Thomas Bronte from Musecore had the best hack and offered him a choice of a few prizes that were appropriate for hack day winners. Thomas declined and instead asked if he could […]

Hello, and welcome to the April recap of what’s happened in MetaBrainz land! Compared the first quarter, April was somewhat on the slow side (reflected on the blog with only three posts that month). I’m guessing this is a mix of both recovering from all the activity in the first few months and a lot […]

Continuing our story from last time… By now I was starting to get a bit more comfortable in my role as Instrument Inserter. I went about doing a bit more in-depth research, especially for the tamburica, and I made a post on the forum where I asked for input researching these instruments. Eventually I mean to […]

If your replicated slave threw an error trying to apply packet #104949 (showing the message ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "artist_alias_idx_primary"), then you can un-break things by doing the following: Get the latest code ... [More] from the master branch: git checkout master && git pull origin master (OR, if you don’t want to update your code, […] [Less]

Hi everyone! I’m CatQuest, the Endeavouring MusicBrainz Instrument Inserter. I’ve been meaning to write a post or two about this for a while, but now finally everything is in order! As some of you may know, I have “officially” taken over instrument additions from reosarevok. I suggested this way back in June 2016 because a) […]

We’re happy to announce the release of our May 2017 schema change today! Thanks to all who were patient during today’s downtime as we released everything to our production servers. This is a fairly minor release as far as schema changes go, but please do report any issues that you come across. Currently, the only […]

We’re going to start our schema change release process today at 17h UTC. We anticipate having a short downtime of a few minutes as we”ll need to restart our database server. As usual, we’re not certain when we will start the downtime, but we’ll keep people posted about our progress in IRC and on Twitter. […]

Sambhav’s GSoC project is all about Picard 2.0, and among progress made the devel version is now installable via PyPi: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/picard_dev To install the dev builds you need to have a Python 3.5 or greater. At the moment it is mainly a port of 1.4.x to Python 3 and Qt5, with support for HiDPI and […]

Official MusicBrainz cross-platform music tagger Picard 1.4.2 is now out. This is mainly a bugfix release, the only notable improvement is related to TOPE/TOAL tags. Users can get Windows and MacOSx packages from Picard website downloads section. Bug ... [More] [PICARD-1053] – Picard does not stop analyzer while moving [PICARD-1055] – picard hangs with: RuntimeError: maximum recursion […] [Less]

Oh boy, oh boy. It’s been a while. Again. Huh? Well, now we’re back! Really! And so, so much has happened in the last while that we’re in for quite a ride here. So strap in! Resuming the recaps First off, let me just say that I am not resuming where we left off, I […]