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There have been reports of users receiving phishing messages via the MetaBrainz messaging service.
Remember: MetaBrainz staff will never ask for your password. MetaBrainz staff will never ask you to log in to a third-party site (or ‘verify’ your username and password in any other way).
Continue reading “Phishing attempts using MetaBrainz messages”We have added a range of great new MetaBrainz designs to our merch store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/metabrainz/shop
These designs by Monkey, previously only available to MetaBrainz summit attendees, have been lightly modified (summit-specific text removed) for everyday wear. Are many people going to know what you’re repping? No. Are the ones that do going to go “DAAAAAAAAAAAAMN IT’S THE BRAINZ YO”? Most definitely!
Continue reading “MerchBrainz”
#YearinMusic 2025 is out now!
A bit like Spotify’s Wrapped (but way super better, in my extremely biased opinion) your ListenBrainz Year in Music report summarizes your listening habits from throughout the year 2025… and now, back through time!
Read more after the jump, or just check it for real real by clicking here to see your report or here if you don’t have an account.
MetaBrainz Summit 25 is upon us! September 15-19 in Barcelona, Spain.
We would love for you to join us remotely. If you are reading this, you are qualified to attend. Congratulations! Read on for more information.
Continue reading “You are invited to MetaBrainz Summit 25”If you are a fan of words going into your ears, please fasten your seatbelt. We have a number of exciting updates for podcasts, broadcasts, audiobooks and audio dramas, including new relationships and updated guidelines!
Continue reading “Updates to Audiobooks, Audio Dramas, Broadcasts and Podcasts”
ListenBrainz is back with your #yearinmusic (YIM) reports for 2024!
Log in to ListenBrainz (LB) and click here to see your report, or here if you don’t have an account and want to see what the fuss is all about.
Missed out and want a YIM? Sign up for a ListenBrainz account, connect your services or your player, and get listening. We’ll have you sorted for 2025. If you are a last.fm user with existing listens you’re in luck – connect your last.fm account to ListenBrainz now, which will also import your listening history, and we will (re)generate you a 2024 YIM in a couple of weeks time.
Continue reading “Explore Your Year in Music 2024”We’re shaking with excitement! Flipping with energy! Anaglyphing with… something. These are just some of the username effects (flair) you can now show off if you are a ListenBrainz donor:
Static effects, animations and mouseover animations, all are unlocked for a month when you donate $5. Paying more will stack further months of flair.
Check out the different effects in your settings page, and then head to the donation page to unlock them and help us pay for our server costs and keep all that lovely data flowing. If you can’t afford this cost, don’t worry! Your presence is always enough. Thank you for being part of this project and this community.
Continue reading “ListenBrainz donor flairs”Some days everything comes together, and this is one of those days. We now have a range of Syndication Feeds (aka RSS or Atom feeds) available in ListenBrainz.
Look for the feed symbol in the following places in ListenBrainz:
We have now completely moved off X (the platform formerly known as Twitter). It has been a long time coming, with rampant enshittification, uncertainty around platform changes, and content that has been increasingly unpleasant to interact with. Politics aside, we’re sick of going to check notifications and getting blasted with a feed largely consisting of violence, porn, advertising, the owner, and AI grifters*.
Instead, come join MetaBrainz, MusicBrainz, ListenBrainz and BookBrainz on Bluesky and/or Mastodon!
Continue reading “X-odus: Find our projects on Bluesky and Mastodon”MusicBrainz is a treasure trove. Open the lid and you will find glittering piles of release metadata. Mountains of precious artist information. Gold nuggets of high resolution artwork. Everything you can imagine – provided you mainly imagine music data. And also, at the bottom, tucked into the corners, some really weird shit. And some MusicBrainz editors just having the time of their life, adding to the pile. One of those editors has agreed to have a chat with me.
Thank you for answering my questions, sound.and.vision! I am really regretting the poop analogy, my deepest apologies. But we are dung-beetle editing buddies, and I know that your additions to the database are a treasure to many. Shall we ‘roll’ with it?
Continue reading “The Strangest Releases in MusicBrainz: Weird and Wonderful”
