MetaBrainz Foundation Community Blog
OK, now we’re complete on the move — if you still notice something weird please drop us a line. Technorati Tags: colo, metabrainz
OK, now we’re complete on the move — if you still notice something weird please drop us a line.
Technorati Tags: colo, metabrainz
We’ve moved into the new digs! While the main services are working, we still need to clean up many loose ends. Please bear with us as we configure various bits and pieces. Thanks! Technorati Tags: colo, service
Update: The move was postponed by approx. 24 hours, and has now been started. Its been a rough week for MusicBrainz, that’s for sure. First off, about a week ago a post about MuiscBrainz bubbled to the top of digg.com and that sent masive waves of traffic to us. That died down later in the … Continue reading “Service status update and upcoming release”
Update: The move was postponed by approx. 24 hours, and has now been started.
Its been a rough week for MusicBrainz, that’s for sure. First off, about a week ago a post about MuiscBrainz bubbled to the top of digg.com and that sent masive waves of traffic to us. That died down later in the week until all those people came back on the weekend and overwhelmed the servers. Our puny, but trusted, web server zim is just stretched too thin to handle all the load thrown at it. I apologize for the down-time and random errors you’ve been seeing in the last week.
And all that is about to get worse, but then it should get much better. Today is the day that we’ll attempt to move into the new data center (colocation facility) here in SLO (San Luis Obispo, CA). Starting very shortly after this post we’ll take a stab at moving the site onto new servers that should at least double, if not triple our current capacity to handle traffic.
We expect this move to take nearly three hours, during which you should use our mirror servers (or the staging server) if you need your MusicBrainz fix:
Last, but not least, we have finally updated the test server with the next release scheduled to be released next sunday on 2006-03-05. This release includes:
We’ll get a much more detailed ChangeLog out as the week progresses. So, happy playing with the new features while we move the site!
We released the 0.6.0 version of Picard today — this release fixes many bugs and adds the much anticipated mp4, mpc and wma plugins! Also included in this release are support for generating cuesheets, M3U, PLS and XSPF playlists. The downloads links are: picard-0.6.0.tar.gz (*nix tarball) picard-setup-0.6.0.exe (windows installer — XP, 2000, NT, Me, 98, … Continue reading “Releases: Picard and libtunepimp”
We released the 0.6.0 version of Picard today — this release fixes many bugs and adds the much anticipated mp4, mpc and wma plugins! Also included in this release are support for generating cuesheets, M3U, PLS and XSPF playlists.
The downloads links are:
To make all the changes happen inside of Picard, we also needed to release a new version of libtunepimp:
Thanks again to Lukáš Lalinský for brining you this release!
Technorati Tags: libtunepimp, musicbrainz, picard, release
Halsey Minor with Minor Ventures and David Ulevitch of Freedom Networks just donated two Dell Poweredge 1750 servers to the MetaBrainz Foundation! Each of these two 1U servers clocks in with: Dual 2.8 Ghz Xeon processors 2 Gb RAM 2 Ultra 320 36Gb SCSI drives with RAID controller These two machines help us quite a … Continue reading “Two Dell Poweredge servers donated!”
Halsey Minor with Minor Ventures and David Ulevitch of Freedom Networks just donated two Dell Poweredge 1750 servers to the MetaBrainz Foundation! Each of these two 1U servers clocks in with:
These two machines help us quite a way toward our current hardware fundraising goal — now we only need to find a beefy database server and we’re ready to migrate into the colocation facility here in SLO.
Thank you so much Halsey and David — the entire MusicBrainz community will love you for your generous donation!
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MusicBrainz has been growing by leaps and bounds — pretty much every month is our busiest yet and our overall service is getting noticeably slower. Many moderation searches are timing out because too many tagger users are putting a heavy load on our database server. After the recent fundraiser, I started thinking about how to … Continue reading “Hardware wishlist & colo migration”
MusicBrainz has been growing by leaps and bounds — pretty much every month is our busiest yet and our overall service is getting noticeably slower. Many moderation searches are timing out because too many tagger users are putting a heavy load on our database server. After the recent fundraiser, I started thinking about how to expand the capacity that MusicBrainz has, and there is no quick fix.
This is complicated by the fact that CCCP is full and cannot accept new servers. We’re outgrowing this service and its time for us to move to a new hosting company. I am considering different options for this, but I am very much favoring a data center here in SLO. This will give Jeff Simmons (our sysadmin helper) and myself immediate access to all of our machines. Right now our machines are 200 miles away from here, which does not lend itself to quick fixes.
So, I would like to expand our capacity and move our servers closer to home at the same time. For that we need to purchase or preferably beg for more hardware. Our hardware wishlist looks like this:
I know, those are stiff requirements that clock in near $10k new. And I also know that I may as well be smoking crack — but hey this is a wishlist, right?
So, if someone has this killer hardware laying around or they are looking for a serious tax write-off please start by leaving a comment.
UPDATE: So much for smoking crack — this wishlist is now checked off and complete!!
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We just completed the transition to Trac as our official bug tracking system! While the bug database is stored on the staging server right now, we will be moving it before too long. You can always find the current location by using these shortcut URLs: http://musicbrainz.org/bugs — go to the list of bugs http://musicbrainz.org/bug — … Continue reading “MusicBrainz now uses Trac as its official bug tracker”
We just completed the transition to Trac as our official bug tracking system! While the bug database is stored on the staging server right now, we will be moving it before too long. You can always find the current location by using these shortcut URLs:
http://musicbrainz.org/bugs — go to the list of bugs
http://musicbrainz.org/bug — enter a new bug
Please do no use the SourceForge Bug Tracker anymore!! (we will disable these trackers soon)
If you spot a bug that has an encoding problem (non-ascii characters getting garbled), please post a comment with the fixed up characters. Some of the data that SourceForge spit out for our old bugs had inconsistent encodings, which caused some bug reports to have some garbled characters. Alas.
Thanks to Lukáš Lalinský for writing the scripts that allowed us to import the data!
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Just to get some peace from incessant nagging about Amazon Coverart AR support, I implemented it and made it live on the main server. Now please stop pestering me. Technorati Tags: musicbrainz
Just to get some peace from incessant nagging about Amazon Coverart AR support, I implemented it and made it live on the main server. Now please stop pestering me.
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To go along with the recently updated server, we released version 0.5.1 of Picard today. The downloads links are: picard-0.5.1.tar.gz (*nix tarball) picard-setup-0.5.1.exe (windows installer — XP, 2000, NT, Me, 98, 95) To make all the changes happen inside of Picard, we also needed to release a new version of libtunepimp: libtunepimp-0.4.1.tar.gz (*nix tarball) Important … Continue reading “Releases: Picard and libtunepimp”
To go along with the recently updated server, we released version 0.5.1 of Picard today. The downloads links are:
To make all the changes happen inside of Picard, we also needed to release a new version of libtunepimp:
Important note for Picard users: Picard 0.5.1 introduces a new naming variable %albumartist (and %albumartistsortname) to support the new features on the server. Individual tracks on single artist albums may now be attributed to different artists which will cause these tracks to be saved in different locations on your hard drive if you use %artist in your naming string right now. You should replace all instances of %artist and %sortname with %albumartist and %albumartistsortname, respectively, if you want to keep organizing your files in the same manner as you did prior to the 0.5.1 release.
Thanks very much to Lukáš Lalinský, for taking on this release singlehandedly!
Technorati Tags: libtunepimp, musicbrainz, picard, release
A few minutes ago we completed the update to the latest version of the MusicBrainz server. New features: Implemented the changes to alleviate some of the problems related to Style Guideline #5 Added new show artists link in the album edit links. This shows all of the tracks and change track artist links for a … Continue reading “Server updated”
A few minutes ago we completed the update to the latest version of the MusicBrainz server.
New features:
Closed bugs:
Please file a bug report if you find something amiss.
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