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August Community Revisit
Ohoi m’hearties, it’s time for the first monthly Community Revisit, where we’ll revisit what happened in MetaBrainzLand during the last month. Ready for the ride? Leggo! The primary thing happening...
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Notifications and messaging in MetaBrainz projects
During the last MusicBrainz summit in Barcelona we decided to start working on finding possible ways to implement two features that have been requested for a long time: Messaging between users...
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Wrapping up Google Code-in 2015
The Google Code-in is pretty much over for this time, and we’ve had a blast in our first year with the competition in MetaBrainz with a total of 116 students completing tasks. In the end we had to pick...
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Temporary autoeditor election procedure
Hello people, In former days, new autoeditor elections were announced on the autoeditor mailing list that all autoeditors were automatically subscribed to. However, all our mailing lists, including the...
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We’re actually really going to take the HTTPS plunge!
Closing in on three years after stating that “We’re going to take the HTTPS plunge!”, we’re actually really going to do it now. Most of our sites have forced HTTPS for some time (metabrainz.org,...
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New MusicBrainz test VM available
There is a new test VM available for anyone who would like to try the latest, possibly not fully debugged, VM. I’m not sure why the VM is nearly 20GB larger than the previous one, while containing...
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Final sprint towards NewHost
So tomorrow is the day when the old servers at Digital West will be put to rest. Our developers and system administrator have been hard at work over the last few weeks (and especially the last few...
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New MusicBrainz Virtual Machine released
We’ve finally released a new MusicBrainz virtual machine! This new version has become a lot more automated and is much easier to create and deploy. Hopefully we will be doing monthly releases of the VM...
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We’ve hired another MusicBrainz developer!
I’m pleased to announce that Yvan Rivierre has joined the MusicBrainz development team! Yvan is not new to our community — he has been participating MusicBrainz development for some time and more...
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May 2017 Schema Change Release: May 15, 2017
We have picked our set of tickets and the date for our May 2017 schema change release: May, 15th 2017. This will be a fairly standard and minor schema change release — we’re only tackling 3 tickets...
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MusicBrainz User Survey
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...
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No autumn 2017 schema change release
Once again, we’re opting to not have a schema change release in the Autumn of 2017. Expect our next schema change release to be on or about 15 May, 2018.Filed under: musicbrainz, Schema Change Release
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New MusicBrainz virtual machine released
I have recently released a new MusicBrainz virtual machine. This virtual machine includes all the important bits of MusicBrainz so you can run your own copy! I’d been hoping for feedback if people have...
View ArticleInviting testers for MusicBrainz live search
Hello everyone! So as you might know, I recently joined the MetaBrainz team and my first project was the completion of our long-standing Solr search project to provide live search indexing for the...
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Web Service ver 1.0 (ws/1) will be removed in 6 months!
With the release of the Next Generation Schema in May of 2011 we officially deprecated the use of version 1 of our XML API. Now, 6 years later, we feel that we can finally pull the plug on this version...
View ArticleNo Spring 2018 schema change
We recently decided not to have a spring 2018 schema change release. As usual, we still have some bits left over to finish up from the last spring schema change. More importantly, we’re making a...
View ArticlePicard 2.0 beta announcement
Hello people, We saw a flurry of updates to Picard these last few months and I am happy to announce that Picard 2.0 is finally in beta. You can find it here – Picard 2.0.0beta1 If you have been...
View ArticlePicard 2.0 beta2 announcement
Hello people, Thank you so much for reporting bugs in our Picard 2.0.0beta1 release. We fixed most of the critical bugs that you guys and gals reported. You can find the beta2 release with the fixes...
View ArticleMusicBrainz Search Overhaul
Hello people o/, samj1912 here. I am extremely glad to announce that we are finally launching our Solr search on the MusicBrainz beta server! Just a little history before I announce the new features...
View ArticlePicard 2.0 released
Hey people, samj1912 here again o/ This time we are announcing the release of a new Picard! Official MusicBrainz cross-platform music tagger Picard 2.0 is now out, containing many fixes and new...
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