Month: May 2024

Picard 3.0 Q&A

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MusicBrainz Picard is a core piece of MetaBrainz. According to the 2017 user survey, ‘Using a tagger which relies on MB’ was the second most common way that editors found out about the existence of MusicBrainz, with 27.1%. Only narrowly beaten by the ever-popular ‘Don’t know/don’t remember’ option, at 28.8%. If MusicBrainz provides the metadata lifeblood, then MusicBrainz Picard is the conduit that splashes that bloody metadata across the globe, onto billions of music files. Gross! But also awesome!

Now MusicBrainz Picard is entering the next stage, with development moving onto version 3.0. What does this mean? outsidecontext, long-time voluntary MusicBrainz Picard contributor, maintainer and user support-er, has agreed to answer some of our questions.

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Faces of Summer of Code 2024

Look at these glorious faces. Look at them.

A screenshot of a video chat, with 16 lovely participants visible.
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Last week there was a short meeting with all GSoC contributors1 and mentors2 present. We used the opportunity to put faces to names, explain how MetaBrainz works, and answer any questions. Motivation is high, and everyone is looking forward to getting started with coding this week!

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Ensembling: Dudys and Dudyettes MiniVersion

Hello again peeps and pipers!
As promised here is the next miniversion of instrument additions!

This time we did Bagpipes, including figuring out a huge duda mess!

MiniVersion Dudys and Dudyettes

¹ Additionally I while looking at the xeremies, I also did work on an ensemble cobla which involved getting sidetracked working on shawms, therein editing and also adding a few:

Additionally these were closed as unfit for now:

² Finally, and the reason for this Miniversion name,
while researching the dudy (and bock) I found out that there were Very Many Different things called variants of “duda”
These haven’t been made into tickets, but they are:

That’s it for now! Soon it’s my country’s National Holiday, and as summer is coming up I’ll be taking a little break, but watch the list of quick fixes for any low hanging tickets that’ll get fixed asap.
またあおうぜ!

MusicBrainz schema change release, 2024-05-13 (with upgrade instructions)

We’re happy to announce the release of our May 2024 schema change now! Thanks to all who were patient during yesterday’s downtime as we released everything to our production servers. Final testing for the mirrors also took some more time. Note that the initially announced upgrades for MusicBrainz search engine are just about to reach our beta website, and thus are postponed for mirrors too but can be expected for the few next releases.

This is a fairly small schema change release which mostly removes unused code and improves things behind the scenes. Of the schema change tickets, there are only two that will directly affect users as they browse and edit in MusicBrainz. The first (MBS-13421) adds genre collections, so that editors can for example make a list of their favorite genres. The second (MBS-13514) allows entering 6-digit label codes.

Additionally, derat gratified us with making aliases more visible in the website, and some other improvements, while yellowhatpro polished cover art priority.

Thanks to chaban, cyberskull, thomasegger, Toad King, and wileyfoxyx for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to 0x1026, Anonymous, “ApeKattQuest, MonkeyPython”, AshPigeon, Autom, brtc, chaban, claybiockiller, danBLOO, darlingz, eigenric, Evergarden, GABG, hashflu, hesheng, julian45, kellnerd, LiarOnce, Philipp Wolfer, salo.rock, suming, Vac31., wileyfoxyx, x1ao4, xiaole_0714223, yangmouren, yyb987, and zemeles for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

A new release of MusicBrainz Docker is also available that matches this update of MusicBrainz Server. See the release notes for update instructions.

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Downtime today for PostgreSQL / MusicBrainz schema change upgrade: 17:00 UTC (10am PT, 1pm ET, 7pm CEST)

Today (Monday, May 13) at 17:00 UTC (10am PT, 1pm ET, 7:00pm CEST), we’ll be:

  • Upgrading our production database server to PostgreSQL v16.
  • Performing the MusicBrainz schema change upgrade.

See the previous announcement on this topic for more information.

Expect MusicBrainz and services that depend on its database (MetaBrainz, ListenBrainz, the Cover Art Archive, CritiqueBrainz, BookBrainz) to be down for the hour, but we’ll be working to restore services as quickly as possible.

Afterward, we’ll post instructions here on how to upgrade your MusicBrainz mirror server (whether using musicbrainz-docker or otherwise).

P.S. The initially announced upgrades for MusicBrainz search engine are just about to reach our beta website, and thus are postponed for mirrors too.

Welcome Summer of Code 2024 contributors!

We are thrilled to announce the selection of 8 contributors to work with us for this year’s Google Summer of Code program! 

MetaBrainz received many great applications this year. Selecting the final contributors was tough and involved deliberating various factors – what these contributors did right is getting in early, engaging with our community, presenting specific and detailed proposals, and proving excellent communication skills and the ability to integrate our feedback back into their proposals.

Thank you to all contributors who submitted a proposal with us!

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