December 2023 – MetaBrainz Blog

New MetaBrainz translation platform

MetaBrainz project translation has officially moved from Transifex to Weblate! This is a big step forward, with improvements like single sign-on using your MusicBrainz account, proper attribution to translators, unified handling of glossaries, custom checks for MusicBrainz variable syntax, better integration with our development workflow, and supporting a libre software organization. We also tidied up the documentation and the forums about translation and more generally about internationalization of all aspects of MetaBrainz.

Your central information page for all MetaBrainz internationalization is now: https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Internationalization

Your new translation platform is (MusicBrainz login required):
https://translations.metabrainz.org/

This is also a great opportunity to give translating a go if you’ve never done it before. In the second half of this blog post we will walk you through getting started. Don’t worry, you don’t need to be an expert translator!

MusicBrainz Server update, 2023-12-20

Winter release is coming, with a lot of refactoring behind the scenes. In particular, we fixed a lot of text in the website user interface, to more closely follow the design guidelines concocted by Aerozol for a long time. See the below list of tickets for more functional changes.

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 and jesus2099 for having contributed patches. Thanks to ApeKattQuest, chaban, chancey, lotheric, and mr_maxis for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to goliv, kellnerd, mfmeulenbelt, outsidecontext, salo.rock, Vac31, and yangmouren for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2023-12-20.

Fresher Fresh Releases

Have you ever wanted to see all the [genre] albums coming out next week?* Go do it in the new and overhauled ListenBrainz Fresh Releases! Live the dream!

A screenshot of the ListenBrainz Fresh Releases feature, with a sticker on it that says ‘always fresh’, and dew drops over everything — So fresh it hurts

As well as greatly improved UI and UX, it has a number of new filters as well as sorting and display options. Check it out.
And, if you’re logged in, visit your very own ‘For you’ section to see what’s recent from your favorite artists.

React Q&A

If you are, like me, an avid follower of MusicBrainz server release notes, you will have been reading about a certain type of update for a number of years – React conversion tasks.

But, unlike me, you may know what React is! For the rest of you – happily drifting on the currents of ignorance with me – I have good news. The MusicBrainz team has sent a Software Engineer tugboat to pull us into the waters of knowledge. A tugboat by the name of yvanzo, who has agreed to answer some questions about React.