The FreeDBGateway will be down for 15 – 30 minutes tomorrow Tuesday Nov 27 at 7pm PST (Nov 28 03:00:00 UTC) as it gets moved to a new VM cluster.
Sorry for the inconvenience!
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The FreeDBGateway will be down for 15 – 30 minutes tomorrow Tuesday Nov 27 at 7pm PST (Nov 28 03:00:00 UTC) as it gets moved to a new VM cluster. Sorry for the inconvenience!
The FreeDBGateway will be down for 15 – 30 minutes tomorrow Tuesday Nov 27 at 7pm PST (Nov 28 03:00:00 UTC) as it gets moved to a new VM cluster.
Sorry for the inconvenience!
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.
Sergey and Wendell at MusicIP have been working on two new reports: Tracks attached to the wrong artist: This list contains tracks with similar names, which have been connected to artists which may be ambiguous – often this indicates an error in either the track assocation, or the artists themselves. To resolve the conflict, tracks … Continue reading “Two new editing suggestion reports available”
Sergey and Wendell at MusicIP have been working on two new reports:
Thanks to Sergey and Wendell for creating these reports!
Just a quick update on the contract with Last.fm: Last.fm has signed the contract with MusicBrainz and will now be able to integrate MusicBrainz data into their service once again. Three cheers! Thank you much to Spencer at Last.fm for pushing this through!
Just a quick update on the contract with Last.fm: Last.fm has signed the contract with MusicBrainz and will now be able to integrate MusicBrainz data into their service once again.
Three cheers!
Thank you much to Spencer at Last.fm for pushing this through!
Powernet in Milton Keynes is currently graciously hosting our UK mirror, but unfortunately that free ride will soon come to an end. Thus, we’re looking to find a new home for a 1U server in some colo in the UK. The mirror does not take too much bandwidth at the moment — if the bandwidth … Continue reading “Looking for free hosting for a UK MusicBrainz Mirror”
Powernet in Milton Keynes is currently graciously hosting our UK mirror, but unfortunately that free ride will soon come to an end. Thus, we’re looking to find a new home for a 1U server in some colo in the UK. The mirror does not take too much bandwidth at the moment — if the bandwidth goes above a 500kbit/s I would be greatly surprised.
If you have some spare space in a colo in the UK and would like to help out by hosting a mirror server, please leave a comment!
Thanks!
UPDATE: The UK mirror will go away tomorrow, Nov 8 at about Noon, local time.
Given the number of clueless/negative comments on the TRM announcement, I feel it necessary to clue people in to the fact that Picard QT’s interface has been revamped. The workflow has been greatly improved, the user interface is more stable and it does an amazing amount of work for you before you need to use … Continue reading “In case you didn't catch it: Picard != Picard QT”
Given the number of clueless/negative comments on the TRM announcement, I feel it necessary to clue people in to the fact that Picard QT’s interface has been revamped. The workflow has been greatly improved, the user interface is more stable and it does an amazing amount of work for you before you need to use acoustic fingerprinting.
If you feel the need to trash months of hard work that Lukas has done, please at least download it and try it before you make an idiot of yourself.
Now that Picard QT has entered Beta testing, the TRM server is officially on a 90+/- days notice! The TRM acoustic fingerprints have been less than effective for quite some time and about 18 months ago we implemented MusicDNS’s PUID fingerprints in Picard. Now that we have a user friendly tagger that can replace the … Continue reading “TRM acoustic fingerprint: Your days are numbered!”
Now that Picard QT has entered Beta testing, the TRM server is officially on a 90+/- days notice!
The TRM acoustic fingerprints have been less than effective for quite some time and about 18 months ago we implemented MusicDNS’s PUID fingerprints in Picard. Now that we have a user friendly tagger that can replace the Classic Tagger we’re going to pull the plug on the TRM server in about 90 days. More specifically, we’re going to turn off the TRM server after the next schema change release, which is currently scheduled for early 2008. During this release we’re going to remove the TRM tables from the database and shortly thereafter we’re going to flip the switch on the TRM server — this may happen as early as February 1st, 2008.
What does that mean for you? If you use an application that uses TRMs, such as Amarok, Classic Tagger or iEatBrainz, please migrate to an application that uses PUIDs instead. Amarok can be compiled to use PUIDs and Classic Tagger and iEatBrainz will be replaced by Picard QT.
You have been warned!
I’m pleased to announce that Lukáš has released Picard QT version 0.9.0 beta1! Picard QT is the port of Picard away from the troublesome wxWidgets toolkit and over to the much more stable QT toolkit. Along the way Lukas reworked the UI to be more intuitive and added the much anticipated TaggerScript language that gives … Continue reading “Picard QT enters beta testing”
I’m pleased to announce that Lukáš has released Picard QT version 0.9.0 beta1!
Picard QT is the port of Picard away from the troublesome wxWidgets toolkit and over to the much more stable QT toolkit. Along the way Lukas reworked the UI to be more intuitive and added the much anticipated TaggerScript language that gives the user total control over how to tag their music collection. The great news amidst all this is that with QT Picard now runs well on OS X — something that we could never achieve with the wxWidgets toolkit!
We have installers for Windows and Mac OS X and a tarball for our Linux users — grab them from the Picard download page. We’re hoping to have a final release of Picard QT in about a month. In the meantime, please report any bugs you may find.
Our director John Buckman of Magnatune has recently stepped down from the board of directors of the MetaBrainz Foundation due to an overwhelming number of other responsibilities. Derek Sivers, the founder and lead geek behind CD Baby joined the board of directors today to replace John. Thanks to John for all of your efforts in … Continue reading “Derek Sivers of CD Baby joins the MetaBrainz Foundation board of directors”
Our director John Buckman of Magnatune has recently stepped down from the board of directors of the MetaBrainz Foundation due to an overwhelming number of other responsibilities. Derek Sivers, the founder and lead geek behind CD Baby joined the board of directors today to replace John.
Thanks to John for all of your efforts in supporting MusicBrainz/MetaBrainz and thanks to Derek for joining us. I’m looking forward to working with you!
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”