Month: February 2025

Google Summer of Code 2025: MetaBrainz has been accepted!

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We’re are excited to announce that the MetaBrainz Foundation has been accepted into Google’s Summer of Code program for 2025! Summer of Code has been instrumental (pun intended) in the development of our projects and growth of our team over the years, so we’re pleased to be part of it for another round.

Ready to rock this summer coding with us? Start with carefully reading the terms for contributors. If you are eligible, go ahead and take a look at our Summer of Code landing page where you can find project ideas that we have listed for this year. Our landing page will also tell you what we require of our participants and how to pick up a project.

A very important note: We will not be considering any proposals from contributors who have not reached out to us before March 31.

Good luck to all who are interested in participating!

PS: If you’re feeling particularly adventurous, check out this entirely optional link for some extra motivation.

MusicBrainz Server update, 2025-02-24

This release includes several mid-sized improvements requested by multiple editors, in addition to the usual URL cleanup changes, bug fixes, and smaller improvements.

We have extended the filtering tools already available on artist pages so that they will also work on label pages, allowing users to filter the releases from that label according to several different conditions.

We have separated artist-work relationships not related with authorship so that they will no longer appear under the “writers” section of works lists (now renamed to “authors”). This allows to distinguish a lot more easily whether a an artist is related to a work as an author or in another, generally more minor way.

Finally, a newly added set of last-year editor stats aim to give editors who are motivated by leaderboards but have not already been active for an eternity (and as such would be hard-pressed to ever get into the “top editors/voters of all time” leaderboards) an achievable goal which rewards consistency more than the current weekly stats do.

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

Thanks to derat, ernst-roux-dice and Maxr1998 for having contributed to the code. Thanks to Gary Young, KenParker_CN, Maxr1998, mr_maxis, salo.rock, UltimateRiff, yindesu and yomo12 for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to delamons, EmO686, KenParker_CN, percylee, PS123 and salo.rock for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2025-02-24.0.

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Picard 2.13.3 released

Picard 2.13.3 is a maintenance release for the recently released Picard 2.13. This primarily fixes a regression with the Windows package, where a system wide installed libssl would cause SSL failures in Picard’s network requests. This release also includes a workaround for libopus not loading embedded cover art files.

The latest release is available for download on the Picard download page.

The detailed changes for this maintenance release are below. For an overview of the new features since Picard 2.12 please see our detailed release announcement for Picard 2.13.1.

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MusicBrainz Server update, 2025-02-10

This is a small release that mostly includes URL display improvements. Additionally, it further improves RTL display and adds a new report for lonely pseudo-releases (poor them, please go help them).

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

Thanks to dvirtz and Maxr1998 for having contributed to the code. Thanks to dvirtz, HibiscusKazeneko, Maxr1998, raelthelamb, UltimateRiff and yindesu for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to KenParker_CN, Peter69, Ral Hole and wileyfoxyx for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2025-02-10.0.

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Picard 2.13.2 released

Picard 2.13.2 is a maintenance release for the recently released Picard 2.13 which fixes a crash when opening the context menu for multiple selected changed tags.

The latest release is available for download on the Picard download page.

The detailed changes for this maintenance release are below. For an overview of the new features since Picard 2.12 please see our detailed release announcement for Picard 2.13.1.

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Picard 2.13.1 released

The Picard team is happy to announce that the final version 2.13.1 of MusicBrainz Picard is now available for download. MusicBrainz Picard is the official tag editor for the MusicBrainz database and helps you get your music collection sorted and cleaned up with the latest data from MusicBrainz.

This release brings multiple bugfixes and some new features. More details below.

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