We just updated the server with a set of minor bug fixes. Mostly formatting and appearance bugs have been fixed and new preferences to control how the top menu works have been added. That’s it — happy brainzing!
We just updated the server with a set of minor bug fixes. Mostly formatting and appearance bugs have been fixed and new preferences to control how the top menu works have been added. That’s it — happy brainzing!
The server has been updated – this release includes a redesigned navigation system, changes to the Autofix (a.k.a. Guess Case) tool and Album Editor. Track durations can now be edited and a number of smaller bugs have been fixed. A big thanks goes out to g0llum, lukz, matt and djce for making this release a … Continue reading “Server updated finally!”
The server has been updated – this release includes a redesigned navigation system, changes to the Autofix (a.k.a. Guess Case) tool and Album Editor. Track durations can now be edited and a number of smaller bugs have been fixed.
A big thanks goes out to g0llum, lukz, matt and djce for making this release a reality. Now that we have this pesky re-org release out of the way, we hope to bring you several more releases before the end of the year.
My last post on current state of the TRM fingerprinting solution got quite a bit of response — I was quite amazed by it really. Personally, I think people still put too much emphasis on TRM and what role it plays within MusicBrainz, but without me providing a new tagging solution there aren’t any concrete … Continue reading “Acoustic fingerprinting at MusicBrainz: The Future”
My last post on current state of the TRM fingerprinting solution got quite a bit of response — I was quite amazed by it really. Personally, I think people still put too much emphasis on TRM and what role it plays within MusicBrainz, but without me providing a new tagging solution there aren’t any concrete points to discuss.
Given the feedback I’ve gotten, I’d like to state a reformulated vision with regards to acoustic fingerprinting and tagging here at MusicBrainz. The two points that have received the most feedback concern acoustic fingerprinting and downloading large index files in order to use the tagger.
Acoustic fingerprinting: Since so many people professed their love for TRM and acoustic fingerprinting in general, we will do the following things:
The obvious problem is if #2 does not come to fruition — if you care about TRM and acoustic fingerprinting here at MusicBrainz, you should go check out the discussion on the devel mailing list and lend your hand. If it doesn’t come about and the TRM server stops being useful, then we’ll eventually turn the TRM server off.
Picard & large indexes: The Picard tagger with Lucene support will progress as planned — the only change so far will be that I will provide one machine for use as a centralized lookup server that will not require you to download the massive text index. However, I expect that Picard with Lucene will be a popular tagging tool, and that the server will get overloaded and slow in the space of a few months. Given that, we’ll have complete indexes available for people to download.
I predict loads of people will opt to download the text index since a 250Mb download will be a lot faster than trying to tag their 10,000 file collection on an overloaded server that performs 10 lookups per minute for them.
Thanks for all the feedback!
UPDATE: PLEASE stop telling me how much the large index would cramp your style and how much the fingerprinting has saved you. I know!
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