Category: MusicBrainz

Posts related to the MusicBrainz encyclopedia in general: community, data, client, server, etc.

Picard 3.0 Q&A

MusicBrainz Picard is a core piece of MetaBrainz. According to the 2017 user survey, ‘Using a tagger which relies on MB’ was the second most common way that editors found out about the existence of MusicBrainz, with 27.1%. Only narrowly beaten by the ever-popular ‘Don’t know/don’t remember’ option, at 28.8%. If MusicBrainz provides the metadata lifeblood, then MusicBrainz Picard is the conduit that splashes that bloody metadata across the globe, onto billions of music files. Gross! But also awesome!

Now MusicBrainz Picard is entering the next stage, with development moving onto version 3.0. What does this mean? outsidecontext, long-time voluntary MusicBrainz Picard contributor, maintainer and user support-er, has agreed to answer some of our questions.

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Ensembling: Dudys and Dudyettes MiniVersion

Hello again peeps and pipers!
As promised here is the next miniversion of instrument additions!

This time we did Bagpipes, including figuring out a huge duda mess!

MiniVersion Dudys and Dudyettes

¹ Additionally I while looking at the xeremies, I also did work on an ensemble cobla which involved getting sidetracked working on shawms, therein editing and also adding a few:

Additionally these were closed as unfit for now:

² Finally, and the reason for this Miniversion name,
while researching the dudy (and bock) I found out that there were Very Many Different things called variants of “duda”
These haven’t been made into tickets, but they are:

That’s it for now! Soon it’s my country’s National Holiday, and as summer is coming up I’ll be taking a little break, but watch the list of quick fixes for any low hanging tickets that’ll get fixed asap.
またあおうぜ!

Welcome Summer of Code 2024 contributors!

We are thrilled to announce the selection of 8 contributors to work with us for this year’s Google Summer of Code program! 

MetaBrainz received many great applications this year. Selecting the final contributors was tough and involved deliberating various factors – what these contributors did right is getting in early, engaging with our community, presenting specific and detailed proposals, and proving excellent communication skills and the ability to integrate our feedback back into their proposals.

Thank you to all contributors who submitted a proposal with us!

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Picard 2.11 released

The Picard team is happy to announce that the final version 2.11 of MusicBrainz Picard is now available for download. MusicBrainz Picard is the official tag editor for the MusicBrainz database and helps you get your music collection sorted and cleaned up with the latest data from MusicBrainz.

This release brings multiple improvements for the AcoustID fingerprint scan and general improvements to matching files to search results for some specific cases. This final release reverts a change from the recent release candidate which broke loading recording relationships only without release relationships.

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Picard 2.11 Release Candidate

The Picard team starts into the year 2024 with a release candidate of MusicBrainz Picard 2.11. MusicBrainz Picard is the official tag editor for the MusicBrainz database and helps you get your music collection sorted and cleaned up with the latest data from MusicBrainz.

This release brings multiple improvements for the AcoustID fingerprint scan and general improvements to matching files to search results for some specific cases. There are also some minor UI tweaks and general bug fixes.

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New MetaBrainz translation platform

MetaBrainz project translation has officially moved from Transifex to Weblate! This is a big step forward, with improvements like single sign-on using your MusicBrainz account, proper attribution to translators, unified handling of glossaries, custom checks for MusicBrainz variable syntax, better integration with our development workflow, and supporting a libre software organization. We also tidied up the documentation and the forums about translation and more generally about internationalization of all aspects of MetaBrainz.

Your central information page for all MetaBrainz internationalization is now: https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Internationalization

Your new translation platform is (MusicBrainz login required):
https://translations.metabrainz.org/

This is also a great opportunity to give translating a go if you’ve never done it before. In the second half of this blog post we will walk you through getting started. Don’t worry, you don’t need to be an expert translator!

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GSOC ‘23: Automating Area Management in MusicBrainz

Hi, this is Prathamesh (IRC Nick: “Pratha-Fish”), an aspiring Data Engineer based in India with a sheer obsession for data, music, computers, and open-source software.

This year, I had the pleasure of being mentored by bitmap and reosarevok for this project and being guided at every hurdle by the incredible team at the MetaBrainz Foundation throughout this project. This blog summarizes my journey with MetaBrainz over the past 22 weeks.

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Picard 2.10 released

The Picard team is happy to announce that the final version 2.10 of MusicBrainz Picard is now available for download. MusicBrainz Picard is the official tag editor for the MusicBrainz database and helps you get your music collection sorted and cleaned up with the latest data from MusicBrainz.

This release mitigates a critical security issue when loading WebP images, see below for details. In addition there are a several improvements, but mainly this release provides bugfixes and changes behind the scenes such as Python 3.12 compatibility and improved translations.

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Picard 2.10 Release Candidate 1

The Picard team is happy to announce that a release candidate for version 2.10 of MusicBrainz Picard is now available for download. MusicBrainz Picard is the official tag editor for the MusicBrainz database and helps you get your music collection sorted and cleaned up with the latest data from MusicBrainz.

This release brings compatibility with Python 3.12 and improvements to both the translation process and the translations themselves. While the functional changes are relatively small, a lot of code restructuring took place. Hence we want to give this release wider testing before releasing the final version. More details below.

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Picard 2.9.2 released

Picard 2.9.2 is a maintenance release for the recently released Picard 2.9 with fixes for reported issues. In particular this solves an issue where Picard could crash on exit leaving a thread running in the background, which prevented Picard to be started again.

The latest release is available for download on the Picard download page.

The detailed changes for this maintenance release are below. For an overview of the new features since Picard 2.8 please see our detailed release announcement for Picard 2.9 and Picard 2.9.1.

On a special note the Picard website is now also available in Italian. Thanks to salo.rock who did the translation.

Thanks a lot to everyone who gave feedback and reported issues.

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