Category: Server

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.

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”

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.

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!

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. 🙂

Due to a number of loose ends that we still need to tighten up (and lack of sleep on part of the people doing the work) we’re going to rest, then fix issues and aim to complete the server update tomorrow.

Sorry for the delay!

After completing a slew of new features and a many more bug fixes, we’re finally ready to schedule the next server release for October 7th. For more information on this upcoming release, please see our updated preliminary server release notes. We still have a handful of small bugs to attend to before the release, but the major bugs have been addressed at this point in time.

We’re asking people to come and help us test this release on the staging server — if you find problems, please enter a bug report to let us know about the problem.

Thanks to Lukáš, Murdos, Acid2 and Jugdish for contributing towards this server release! (Its good to see five people hacking on one release!)

The MusicBrainz server devs (Lukáš, Murdos, Acid2 and myself) have been busy hacking on new features and fixing bugs for the next server release. While we’re not quite ready for the next release, we are starting to narrow down what will be in the next release and could use your help in testing these new features.

In particular we have the new folksonomy tagging feature (tag your favorite artists, releases, label and tracks like last.fm) ready to go and would like to get your feedback on how to integrate the new feature better into our web pages.

Also, please help us test various bug fixes that we’ve made.

But, like I said, we’re not ready for the next release. I personally still have a lot of open bugs I intend to tackle, and Lukáš is working on merging another feature or two from other SVN branches. But we are far enough along that we could use your feedback. Also, since some features are still in flux, we’ve also not set a firm date for when we’re going to push this release onto the main servers — at this point we’re shooting for some time in September.

For more details on what we’ve done and where to test, please see our preliminary release notes.