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MusicBrainz will not be reachable for about 5 minutes starting tomorrow Sept 20th at midnight, PDT. Digital West is reconfiguring their network during this time. Sorry for the inconvenience. Technorati Tags: musicbrainz
MusicBrainz will not be reachable for about 5 minutes starting tomorrow Sept 20th at midnight, PDT. Digital West is reconfiguring their network during this time. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Matthias the author of Magic MP3 Tagger suggested that I post about the first month’s take, since it exceeded both of our expectations. With the new links to his tagger added to the MusicBrainz site, his registrations increased significantly so that he paid us 401.02 Euro (514.75 Dollars) for the month of August alone! This … Continue reading “Magic MP3 Tagger: Results from the first month”
Matthias the author of Magic MP3 Tagger suggested that I post about the first month’s take, since it exceeded both of our expectations.
With the new links to his tagger added to the MusicBrainz site, his registrations increased significantly so that he paid us 401.02 Euro (514.75 Dollars) for the month of August alone! This is far from spare change — this nearly covers the cost of our bandwidth bill!
As our costs for hosting are increasing, I’m quite pleased to see that more money is coming in to keep our costs covered. Thanks much for pestering me about this Matthias! Three cheers to many more months of cooperation!
After a much needed break and an extensive camping trip, I’ve finally returned to the land of MusicBrainz. However, instead of returning to San Luis Obispo to tackle new challenges, I’m in London this week. The BBC invited me for a few days to explore the possibilities how MusicBrainz and the BBC can work together. … Continue reading “Returning to the land of MusicBrainz”
After a much needed break and an extensive camping trip, I’ve finally returned to the land of MusicBrainz. However, instead of returning to San Luis Obispo to tackle new challenges, I’m in London this week. The BBC invited me for a few days to explore the possibilities how MusicBrainz and the BBC can work together.
While I am in London I am checking mail and catching up on the happenings of the past couple of weeks. I am also starting to think about how to solve the various growing pains that MusicBrainz is experiencing at the moment. After my break I have a much clearer view of the world and a much better head space.
Stay tuned for some thoughts on how to tackle our current set of challenges!
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Over the past few weeks I’ve taken our venerable first server zim and given him a bit of an overhaul. A new motherboard, with 2GBs of RAM and a RAID SATA controller have given Zim a new lease on life as our test server. Now that the test server is no longer at my house, … Continue reading “New staging server up!”
Over the past few weeks I’ve taken our venerable first server zim and given him a bit of an overhaul. A new motherboard, with 2GBs of RAM and a RAID SATA controller have given Zim a new lease on life as our test server. Now that the test server is no longer at my house, I can stop paying for the expensive net connection with the static IPs. Yay!
The staging server is currently called zim2.musicbrainz.org, but this should be fixed some time tomorrow.
I would like to give a big-fat thanks to Cliff Skolnick, Apache contributor and the leading force behing RightRound. Cliff is hosting our new staging server in his personal hosting setup as a favor to MusicBrainz. Thanks Cliff and the team at RightRound — we appreciate your support!
Technorati Tags: hardware, hosting, musicbrainz
Matthias, the creator of the Magic MP3 Tagger has offered to increase his sponsorship of MusicBrainz! We just agreed to have him sponsor us to the tune of 250 Euros a month or 10% of his registrations, whichever is greater. In exchange for the guaranteed 250 Euros a month, we added more prominent links to … Continue reading “Magic MP3 Tagger increases its sponsorship of MusicBrainz”
Matthias, the creator of the Magic MP3 Tagger has offered to increase his sponsorship of MusicBrainz! We just agreed to have him sponsor us to the tune of 250 Euros a month or 10% of his registrations, whichever is greater. In exchange for the guaranteed 250 Euros a month, we added more prominent links to his tagger.
This is a win-win situation for both projects and I am really glad to have one more source of income to cover our increasing costs of hosting and maintaining this service.
Thanks Matthias!
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Rod Begbie has created a new VMWare player image based on the 20060712 release of the MusicBrainz server. The VMware Player and Rod’s image allows you to download the free VMWare player and then run a musicbrainz server on your windows or Linux machine, without having to go through the pain of doing a full … Continue reading “New server image for 20060712 release available”
Rod Begbie has created a new VMWare player image based on the 20060712 release of the MusicBrainz server. The VMware Player and Rod’s image allows you to download the free VMWare player and then run a musicbrainz server on your windows or Linux machine, without having to go through the pain of doing a full install of the MusicBrainz server.
Thanks Rod!
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As the TRM server is getting close to another pruning round it flaked out for a few hours today — its back up and running now. I had hoped that we would’ve come along further in moving Classic Tagger users over to Picard, but instability problems of the wxWindows toolkit continue to plague Picard users. … Continue reading “TRM, Picard and Picard on OS X”
As the TRM server is getting close to another pruning round it flaked out for a few hours today — its back up and running now.
I had hoped that we would’ve come along further in moving Classic Tagger users over to Picard, but instability problems of the wxWindows toolkit continue to plague Picard users. For some users it works great, for others it crashes every 30 seconds, and yet its stable for Lukas who is working on Picard the most. This makes using Picard very difficult and even harder to convince our users who love the track based Classic Tagger to move to Picard.
Given this, we plan to do the following:
We hope to complete all of this before the end of the year. But, should we not make that deadline, we’ll extend it again until most everyone feels that Picard has replaced the Classic Tagger. The key metric for turning off the TRM server is to watch the traffic to the TRM server slow to a near crawl so that when we do turn it off that only stragglers will be affected.
Tobias Rundström has volunteered to work on a UI mock-up of the new Picard UI that will be based on our Picard user interface brainstorming. Once he has done that we’ll post screenshots or maybe even an application for people to look at and give us feedback on.
Finally, the switch to QT will also have positive benefits for Picard on Mac OS X. The QT toolkit is considerably more stable on the Mac than wxWindows and that will enable us to finally roll out a Mac OS X version of the tagger. I understand that there is frustration about the lack of a tagger on OS X — Geof Morris has now even offered up a bounty for someone to develop a new UI for Picard for the Mac. But, there isn’t anything we can do for a few months — please sit tight. We’re aware of the situation and are as unhappy about it as you are!
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Freedb and MusicBrainz are discussed in this Frankfurter Rundschau online article (Article is in German): Freedb war nicht der einzige Versuch, Gracenote Konkurrenz zu machen. Zeitgleich mit dem jetzt gefährdeten Projekt startete die Musik-Datenbank Musicbrainz. Deren Gründer Robert Kaye glaubt, mittlerweile ein besseres Angebot zu besitzen. “Unsere Daten sind sauberer und umfangreicher als die von … Continue reading “freedb and MusicBrainz in Frankfurter Rundschau online”
Freedb and MusicBrainz are discussed in this Frankfurter Rundschau online article (Article is in German):
Freedb war nicht der einzige Versuch, Gracenote Konkurrenz zu machen. Zeitgleich mit dem jetzt gefährdeten Projekt startete die Musik-Datenbank Musicbrainz. Deren Gründer Robert Kaye glaubt, mittlerweile ein besseres Angebot zu besitzen. “Unsere Daten sind sauberer und umfangreicher als die von Freedb”, sagt er. “Wir geben uns viel Mühe, doppelte Daten rauszuschmeißen.”
The article almost has more content on MusicBrainz than it does for Freedb — thanks much Janko!
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It has been rumoured for quite some time now, and I think that the new server release is ready for beta-testing. Please jump in, and help finding the remaining bugs. If you find any, file them to the XHTML 1.1 Milestone, and owner to yours truly. This is a significant update to the look and … Continue reading “New Server Release”
It has been rumoured for quite some time now, and I think that the new server release is ready for beta-testing. Please jump in, and help finding the remaining bugs. If you find any, file them to the XHTML 1.1 Milestone, and owner to yours truly.
This is a significant update to the look and feel of MusicBrainz — many pages and workflows have changed and there are bound to be a number of bugs. We’ll need people to jump in help testing if we want to get this release out soon.
See what has changed: Release Notes
Test Server (as usual): test.musicbrainz.org
Bug Tracker (as usual): bugs.musicbrainz.org
For right now, we’re not specifying a release date — we need to get more eyes looking at this new release before we can nail down a date. So, please jump in and help test!!
Matthias Friedrich just declared the MMD XML Schema to be stable. Hooray, and thanks for your hard work on creating this schema! The MusicBrainzXMLMetaData wiki page describes this new schema, but it does not provide complete documentation for the new schema. We’re looking for a volunteer to take this page and: Describe the entire schema … Continue reading “Wanted: Documentation writer for MusicBrainz' MMD XML Schema”
Matthias Friedrich just declared the MMD XML Schema to be stable. Hooray, and thanks for your hard work on creating this schema!
The MusicBrainzXMLMetaData wiki page describes this new schema, but it does not provide complete documentation for the new schema. We’re looking for a volunteer to take this page and:
The person who decides to take this on needs to understand XML and preferably the Relax NG XML Schema language. The latter is not a must — we can help the documentation writer understand the schema, but knowledge of XML is crucial for this task.
If you are interested in helping out, please post a comment to this entry.
Thanks!
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