Hard disks – progress!

The faulty disk has gone back (no refund so far though). I ordered a new disk from a different supplier, got it within 24 hrs, and it’s now in my machine and humming along nicely. So now I’ve finally got the RAID 5 working.

The faulty disk has gone back (no refund so far though). I ordered a new disk from a different supplier, got it within 24 hrs, and it’s now in my machine and humming along nicely. So now I’ve finally got the RAID 5 working.

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Annotations – please try it out!

The annotations work I’ve been talking about over the last few days is now live on the test server. Please have a play and let me know what you think. Is it too limited? Does the page layout need tweaking? Maybe the way the moderations work isn’t quite right? All feedback gratefully received.

The annotations work I’ve been talking about over the last few days is now live on the test server. Please have a play and let me know what you think. Is it too limited? Does the page layout need tweaking? Maybe the way the moderations work isn’t quite right? All feedback gratefully received.

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Annotations, part II

Following on the Annotations work, I’ve now got it automatically handling artist / album merges and deletes, which was one of my main concerns before. I think this makes it just about ready to test. It’s a very simple feature, which is possibly one reason why I think it will work – I’m not sure … Continue reading “Annotations, part II”

Following on the Annotations work, I’ve now got it automatically handling artist / album merges and deletes, which was one of my main concerns before. I think this makes it just about ready to test. It’s a very simple feature, which is possibly one reason why I think it will work – I’m not sure it needs to be any more complex – not for the first release anyway.

Update: see the Wiki for documentation.

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Annotations

This evening I’m taking another look at the “Annotations” work done by Matthias a while back. It’s pretty near complete – he did a good job. Now I’ve just got to polish off a couple of rough edges and merge it back into the CVS trunk. I think we should be able to throw this … Continue reading “Annotations”

This evening I’m taking another look at the “Annotations” work done by Matthias a while back. It’s pretty near complete – he did a good job. Now I’ve just got to polish off a couple of rough edges and merge it back into the CVS trunk. I think we should be able to throw this one open for testing pretty soon.

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MusicBrainz Tagger 0.9.0 Released

A new MusicBrainz Tagger has been released. This version fixes many existing bugs and adds a couple of new features that round out the tagger a bit.

A new MusicBrainz Tagger has been released. This version fixes many existing
bugs and adds a couple of new features that round out the tagger a bit.

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New Database Server

On Saturday, 29th March 2003 the new database server (hostname ‘bender’) was put into production. This server was purchased with your donations – thanks! It’s great. We’re very happy about this ๐Ÿ™‚ At about 1155hrs UTC, the system was put into “read-only” mode (which means that logins were disabled, and logged-in users were logged out). … Continue reading “New Database Server”

On Saturday, 29th March 2003 the new database server (hostname ‘bender’)
was put into production. This server was purchased with your donations
– thanks! It’s great. We’re very happy about this ๐Ÿ™‚

At about 1155hrs UTC, the system was put into “read-only” mode (which
means that logins were disabled, and logged-in users were logged out).
Then the database was exported to text files, transferred to bender,
then imported into a fresh database. At about 1220hrs UTC, the web
server was configured to start using the newly-created database, and
the old database was shut down.

We’ve tried to make sure that no data could have been written to the
system during the upgrade process – such data would be lost when the
final switchover occurred. Please let us know if you think we missed
anything.

Once again, thanks for your donations, which made this possible! We hope
to be able to bring you a faster, more reliable, easier-to-use service
as a result.