Category: Development

Mac OS X Developer for Picard releases wanted

Its clear that I won’t find the time to package up Picard for OS X anytime soon. I’ve put out one Intel based DMG, but haven’t found the time to create a Universal Binary package of Picard. 🙁

If you have the following:

  • Knowledge of building Mac OS X Application Bundles
  • Python knowledge
  • Love for Picard
  • Access to Intel and PPC Macs

We would very much like to talk to you. The last item isn’t crucial — I suppose we can get people in the community to test your builds for platforms you have no access to. Please leave a comment if you’re interested in helping out.

Come play with a new search engine

Do you have a search bug that really annoys you? If so, please come help me test a new search engine!

I’ve ported our search services to a new text search engine called Xapian. While the indexes are bigger on disk, it is easier to install, much faster to index and probably also faster to search. And, over Lucene it has vastly fewer problems. And you can perform stop word searches!

Come play with it on my dev server! (Never mind the connection being slow and indexes being a few weeks old) Report issues to the usual place please!

Amazon ASIN cleanup

Back in prehistoric times, MusicBrainz used to use an automated script for matching releases to Amazon’s ASINs. But quickly people interjected and demanded to be able to use ARs to associate ASINs to releases. So, we added support for using ARs, but we never got rid of the old system and that has caused a … Continue reading “Amazon ASIN cleanup”

Back in prehistoric times, MusicBrainz used to use an automated script for matching releases to Amazon’s ASINs. But quickly people interjected and demanded to be able to use ARs to associate ASINs to releases. So, we added support for using ARs, but we never got rid of the old system and that has caused a few bugs over time.

I’ve written a script that takes the first step in removing the old amazon ASINs and converts them to AR links. I’ve run this script on my test server musicbrainz.homeip.net — please go to that server and pick your favorite ASIN screw up and let me know if its working.

If this script turns out to work well, I can run it on the main server later this week in order to remove these pesky ASIN issues.

Thanks!

UPDATE: This script has been run on the main server and all Amazon ASINs should now be user editable. No new links have been generated — we’ve only converted old style ASIN matches to ARs so that our editors can make changes.

Testing a new libofa release

libofa, the Open Fingerprint Architecture library had many issues in the last release and quite a few of them were cleaned up, including the notorious incorrect output bug on Intel Macs. I’ve put together a test release of 0.9.4 to see if people can build this tarball without major problems. If you’ve had issues with … Continue reading “Testing a new libofa release”

libofa, the Open Fingerprint Architecture library had many issues in the last release and quite a few of them were cleaned up, including the notorious incorrect output bug on Intel Macs. I’ve put together a test release of 0.9.4 to see if people can build this tarball without major problems.

If you’ve had issues with previous builds of libofa, please build and install this tarball. Report any bugs/problems to the usual place, please.

Unplanned downtime

The primary web server has just gone offline unexpectedly – we’re looking into it. Meanwhile you can still the other parts of MusicBrainz (read on for details). Sorry for the inconvenience – please bear with us, and check back here for updates. Thanks!

The primary web server has just gone offline unexpectedly – we’re looking into it. Meanwhile you can still the other parts of MusicBrainz (read on for details).

Sorry for the inconvenience – please bear with us, and check back here for updates. Thanks!

Continue reading “Unplanned downtime”

Search server fixed.

UPDATE: The main search functions are back! FreeDB search will be offline until sometime tomorrow. Our search server finally gave up the ghost and its dead. We’re bringing up a back-up server to take over for it, but it will take another 8 hours for the indexes to be complete. Sorry for the inconvenience! In … Continue reading “Search server fixed.”

UPDATE: The main search functions are back! FreeDB search will be offline until sometime tomorrow.

Our search server finally gave up the ghost and its dead. We’re bringing up a back-up server to take over for it, but it will take another 8 hours for the indexes to be complete.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

In the meantime, you can donate some money!

UPDATE: by Dave at 1730 UTC

Until about 1715 UTC the search server was only available to the master site – this is now fixed. Sorry for the additional inconvenience, and thanks for bearing with us.

Previously Dave said:

The server server seems to be a little sick again today – the load average was over 100 just now. As a result I’m trying to reboot the server now, and I’ve put request rate-limiting in place on the main server, so you may find that various things aren’t working at the moment. 🙁

Watch this space for updates.

Upgrade instructions for mb_server release 20071014

If you have an existing installation of the MusicBrainz server, follow the instructions below to upgrade your installation to the latest and greatest. You can skip steps #0 and #7 if you’re not running a slave server.

If you have an existing installation of the MusicBrainz server, follow the instructions below to upgrade your installation to the latest and greatest. You can skip steps #0 and #7 if you’re not running a slave server.

Continue reading “Upgrade instructions for mb_server release 20071014”

Main server updated!

We just finished the update to the main server! The final set of changes that are now live are documented in our server release notes. Now its time to go an apply tags to your favorite MusicBrainz data! Thanks to Dave, Lukáš, Murdos, Acid2 and Jugdish for contributing towards this server release! Its been a … Continue reading “Main server updated!”

We just finished the update to the main server!

The final set of changes that are now live are documented in our server release notes. Now its time to go an apply tags to your favorite MusicBrainz data!

Thanks to Dave, Lukáš, Murdos, Acid2 and Jugdish for contributing towards this server release! Its been a long time in the coming, but we managed to squeeze in a number of significant improvements in this release.

UPDATE: One of the changes to the database will cause a few Edit Relationship edits to fail. (e.g. #76493) — sorry for the inconvenience!

Server release post-poned to Oct 14th

After finding a couple of serious issues upon doing a final code review, I’ve decided to post-pone the server release until Oct 14th. I’ve had to make invasive changes that require more testing, so I do not feel comfortable doing the update today. Sorry if you’ve been looking forward to this release, but I want … Continue reading “Server release post-poned to Oct 14th”

After finding a couple of serious issues upon doing a final code review, I’ve decided to post-pone the server release until Oct 14th. I’ve had to make invasive changes that require more testing, so I do not feel comfortable doing the update today.

Sorry if you’ve been looking forward to this release, but I want to ensure that things go smooth when we do make the switch. And it also seems that we have record traffic right now, so there are too many things telling me to wait with the upgrade.

Please send chocolate. 🙂