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MetaBrainz Summit 24 is upon us! September 23-27 in New Delhi, India.
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.
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In 2012 we proudly announced the Cover Art Archive (CAA), a cooperation between MusicBrainz and the Internet Archive to store and deliver high resolution release imagery in multiple formats. Today we have over 2.5 million releases with cover art, making up 60.7% of all releases in MusicBrainz! Every day another ~1,300 releases have cover art added (CAA statistics/timeline).
Now we take the next step, and are proud to announce the Event Art Archive (EAA). Again we have worked with our friends at the Internet Archive to transform MusicBrainz into, potentially, the internet’s greatest repository for event art. Once again supporting multiple formats (jpg, gif, png, htm, html, jpe, jfif, pdf) in any resolution/size, now all that is needed is for music lovers and archivists to add event art. Since the feature has been in beta we have already had 700+ beautiful (and attractively ugly) pieces of event art added. Browse all the event art edits (EAA statistics/timeline).
Continue reading “Announcing the Event Art Archive”Have you ever joined the MetaBrainz chat? Team and community members have been getting up to mischief (and, occasionally, work) using IRC since 2003 and earlier – with the logs to prove it. Today, over twenty years later, we say ‘oh hi’ to ChatBrainz.
With the launch of ChatBrainz we have officially moved to Matrix! Matrix has ease of access and some modern conveniences that make access to chat possible for more contributors and users. Not a fan of the change? Not a problem – ChatBrainz also has IRC and Discord bridges, that allow cross-platform chat with the three main Matrix rooms/channels.
Continue reading “ChatBrainz: IRC, Matrix & Discord”MusicBrainz Picard is a core piece of MetaBrainz. According to the 2017 user survey, ‘Using a tagger which relies on MB’ was the second most common way that editors found out about the existence of MusicBrainz, with 27.1%. Only narrowly beaten by the ever-popular ‘Don’t know/don’t remember’ option, at 28.8%. If MusicBrainz provides the metadata lifeblood, then MusicBrainz Picard is the conduit that splashes that bloody metadata across the globe, onto billions of music files. Gross! But also awesome!
Now MusicBrainz Picard is entering the next stage, with development moving onto version 3.0. What does this mean? outsidecontext, long-time voluntary MusicBrainz Picard contributor, maintainer and user support-er, has agreed to answer some of our questions.
Continue reading “Picard 3.0 Q&A”Look at these glorious faces. Look at them.
Last week there was a short meeting with all GSoC contributors1 and mentors2 present. We used the opportunity to put faces to names, explain how MetaBrainz works, and answer any questions. Motivation is high, and everyone is looking forward to getting started with coding this week!
Continue reading “Faces of Summer of Code 2024”Ah, the lead up to Google Summer of Code (GSoC). Weeks of excitement, and the promise of a bright future. And lots of time to absolutely torpedo your chances of working with MetaBrainz or your open-source organisation of choice. Here’s how.
Strap in, because we’re going to recap all the ListenBrainz changes in the whirlwind year that was 2023! For the full ListenBrainz changelog you can visit: https://github.com/metabrainz/listenbrainz-server/releases
For those who peeped at the changelog, yes, the ListenBrainz team managed over 60 releases in 2023… let’s check out some of the highlights.
Continue reading “ListenBrainz: 2023 Recap”The ListenBrainz Music Neighbourhood feature is now live!
Use this arcane technology to find your favourite artist and explore their related artists. Watch the pretty colours. Listen to the music. Race your friends from Napalm Death to Britney Spears. Increase the web size and gasp as the artists jiggle into each other. Or simplify your life by exploring a web size of 0.
Don’t wait! No ListenBrainz account required, try it now: https://listenbrainz.org/explore/music-neighborhood/
ListenBrainz is back with your #yearinmusic (YIM) reports for 2023! Log in to ListenBrainz (LB) and click here to see your report, or here if you don’t have an account but want to see what we are banging on about.
See your year summed up in a flash new summary collage. Revisit and share your top artists, albums, and tracks from last year. Topped off with new statistics, the new browsable cover collage, links to friends, and playlists created just for you by our hopefully-still–benign machine algorithm.
This year we will also re-run the YIM pages in a few weeks – this means that if you have listens from 2023 stored in last.fm or libre.fm, it’s not too late! Use that LB importer to get your YIM soon.
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!
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