Author: ruaok

Brainzers around the world

Nikki and I are randomly hacking on MusicBrainz when I became curious about the distribution about brainzers around the world. One SQL query later we have: country | count ———+——- fr | 1664 de | 1498 uk | 1031 dk | 746 ru | 670 nl | 454 pl | 409 ca | 348 au … Continue reading “Brainzers around the world”

Nikki and I are randomly hacking on MusicBrainz when I became curious about the distribution about brainzers around the world. One SQL query later we have:

country | count

———+——-

fr | 1664

de | 1498

uk | 1031

dk | 746

ru | 670

nl | 454

pl | 409

ca | 348

au | 271

it | 270

This is compiled from email addresses of registered users that use their country top level domains. This obviously cuts out all the .net, .com, .org addresses, which is a lot of people. But this gives a decent idea of the reach that MusicBrainz has into the nooks and crannies of the planet. It turns out that we have members from 105 countries, which if we’re counting 238 country tlds, that comes to 44%. Wow!

Read on for the complete list…

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Trackback spam — no more.

I really removed trackback support from this blog (the trackback cgi is not executable anymore — take that!). I also removed all the trackback links from the templates… Thus, no more trackbacks which is sad, but no more spam, which is good.

I really removed trackback support from this blog (the trackback cgi is not executable anymore — take that!). I also removed all the trackback links from the templates…

Thus, no more trackbacks which is sad, but no more spam, which is good.

New servers purchased

Great news folks! We just purchased two new servers: Dual 2.4Ghz Xeon Supermicro 1U servers 4GB RAM SCSI III support 1 server has 1 72GB hot swap drives and the other has 2 Each one was a whopping $950 — a really awesome deal! Now I need to purchase a RAID controller and we can … Continue reading “New servers purchased”

Great news folks! We just purchased two new servers:

  • Dual 2.4Ghz Xeon Supermicro 1U servers
  • 4GB RAM
  • SCSI III support
  • 1 server has 1 72GB hot swap drives and the other has 2

Each one was a whopping $950 — a really awesome deal! Now I need to purchase a RAID controller and we can give the TRM server its own machine, which should alleviate some of the bottlenecks we’ve been seeing.

mb.org

Jamie Munro suggested looking into purchasing the mb.org domain, so I put in a (joking) offer of $50. The owner replied telling me that he paid over 20 times that and that he would not go for it. No surprise there. So, next time we have $1000 to splurge on a nice shortcut domain, we … Continue reading “mb.org”

Jamie Munro suggested looking into purchasing the mb.org domain, so I put in a (joking) offer of $50. The owner replied telling me that he paid over 20 times that and that he would not go for it. No surprise there. So, next time we have $1000 to splurge on a nice shortcut domain, we could consider doing this.

Thus, chances of this happening are next to nil. At least we tried. 🙂

Unwrapping the thanksgiving present

whicken sent MusicBrainz a Thanksgiving Day present that consisted of nearly 3000 AR relationships, and I finally had the chance to import the data and play with it. A few of URLs to check out: 2Pac Bono The Rolling Stones I didn’t know that 2Pac == Makavelli — I’m getting excited about AR. Can you … Continue reading “Unwrapping the thanksgiving present”

whicken sent MusicBrainz a Thanksgiving Day present that consisted of nearly 3000 AR relationships, and I finally had the chance to import the data and play with it. A few of URLs to check out:

I didn’t know that 2Pac == Makavelli — I’m getting excited about AR. Can you tell? If you want to see the data whicken sent our way, look here.

Thanks tons Wendell!! (whicken)

Back to Advanced Relationships I trudge…

The last two weeks were pretty much dedicated to trying to make ends meet. Fortunately I managed to get some contract work that paid fairly well and was somewhat related to my spare time projects like MusicBrainz and XSPF. In the last two weeks I managed to earn 1/4 of what I earned all of … Continue reading “Back to Advanced Relationships I trudge…”

The last two weeks were pretty much dedicated to trying to make ends meet. Fortunately I managed to get some contract work that paid fairly well and was somewhat related to my spare time projects like MusicBrainz and XSPF. In the last two weeks I managed to earn 1/4 of what I earned all of last year. That speaks highly of the last two weeks and poorly on the last year.

The upshot is that I have time to get back to MusicBrainz hacking. That means I’m back on the project that won’t die: Advanced Relationships. Every time I think I am done, someone points out 2-3 new problems that set me back another week. Its been like this since the end of December, and its getting a bit frustrating. The positive thing about this is that I’m doing AR right — no ‘lets put this out there and we’ll make if work really well later‘. Besides, every-time I’ve half-assed a feature on the server, everyone has always let me know what they think, and its never pretty. 🙂

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AR todo list

If you’ve been lusting for the new Advanced Relationships feature in MusicBrainz, take a look at our AR Todo list. We need to complete this list of tasks before we release AR on the world. We’re now officially done with the features, but we still need to do some performance tweaking and behind the scenes … Continue reading “AR todo list”

If you’ve been lusting for the new Advanced Relationships feature in MusicBrainz, take a look at our AR Todo list.

We need to complete this list of tasks before we release AR on the world. We’re now officially done with the features, but we still need to do some performance tweaking and behind the scenes futzing.

If you’d like to play, please go to the test server!

But keep in mind that the relationships on the test server will change! (They should be more complete and suck less for the first release.)

More Wikipedia stuff

This is an excellent piece on cooperation and politeness at Wikipedia — I haven’t finished reading it yet, but for anyone who is thinking about improving MusicBrainz’s voting system, this should be considered required reading. I for one, am finally seeing the light on Jamie Munro’s Survival of the Fittest proposal and how it should … Continue reading “More Wikipedia stuff”

This is an excellent piece on cooperation and politeness at Wikipedia — I haven’t finished reading it yet, but for anyone who is thinking about improving MusicBrainz’s voting system, this should be considered required reading.

I for one, am finally seeing the light on Jamie Munro’s Survival of the Fittest proposal and how it should let us avoid some of the problems/issues/discussions that Wikipedia is currently encountering. I think it may be time to tackle that after I get the new tagger on solid ground.

Internet Archive donates to MetaBrainz

Gordon Mohr, who is currently working at the Internet Archive was given the opportunity to donate $300 to a non-profit with a compatible mission to the Internet Archive. Gordon chose the MetaBrainz Foundation and thus we just received a check for $300. Thank you very much to both Gordon and Brewster Kahle, the driving force … Continue reading “Internet Archive donates to MetaBrainz”

Gordon Mohr, who is currently working at the Internet Archive was given the opportunity to donate $300 to a non-profit with a compatible mission to the Internet Archive. Gordon chose the MetaBrainz Foundation and thus we just received a check for $300.

Thank you very much to both Gordon and Brewster Kahle, the driving force behind the Internet Archive!