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Namaste!
I am Shivam Awasthi, a recent graduate from IIT(BHU), Varanasi. As part of Google Summer of Code’23, I participated as a contributor for the MetaBrainz Foundation, where I worked on creating an Administration System for BookBrainz.
During this period, I was mentored by monkey, and ansh. With this post, I’ll be giving an overview of my project.
Continue reading “GSoC’23: Administration System for BookBrainz”Hello everyone!
I am Jasjeet Singh (also known as jasje on IRC and 07jasjeet on GitHub). I am an undergraduate student pursuing information technology at UIET, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. This year I participated in Google Summer of Code under MetaBrainz and worked on implementing a feed section in the new and upcoming ListenBrainz Android app derived from the ListenBrainz website. Along with the implementation of the original feed section, I have also added new features to the section that are currently available only on the app. My mentor for this project was Akshat Tiwari. (akshaaatt on IRC)
Continue reading “GSoC 2023: Feed Section in ListenBrainz Android”Picard 2.9.1 is a maintenance release for the recently released Picard 2.9 with fixes for reported issues and updated translations.
This release contains important fixes for a potential data loss on Windows and several crashes. Windows users are highly recommended to upgrade.
Please see below for details.
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.
Thanks a lot to everyone who gave feedback and reported issues.
Continue reading “Picard 2.9.1 released”This is another summer release with no new features, but it contains a fair amount of small bug fixes and improvements, many related to URL handling. The last user account related pages are also converted to React with this update.
A new release of MusicBrainz Docker is also available that matches this update of MusicBrainz Server. See the release notes for update instructions.
Thanks to atj, chaban, Cyberskull, darkshyne, derat, Freso, scoobert, Van de Bugger and yindesu for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to atj and derat for submitting code patches. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!
The git tag is v-2023-08-07.
Continue reading “MusicBrainz Server update, 2023-08-07”The Picard team is happy to announce that the final version 2.9 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 many changes, including single instance mode, new scripting variables, ID3v2.4 by default, new macOS icon and more. More details below.
Continue reading “Picard 2.9 released”23 years is a quite a long time and I had never thought that this little project I was starting in 2000, would grow into what it is today — it has been an amazing journey with many ups and downs. Despite many early hardships, I’m extremely happy that I stuck with it and nurtured the project into an important resource for the internet today.
With that in mind, I feel compelled to tell a story of where the name MusicBrainz came from and how July 17, 2000 was the first day that the name has ever been uttered and the domain was registered seconds later.
Continue reading “Happy 23rd Birthday, MusicBrainz!”Article #3 of our 3 part article series on why music Metadata Matters in the modern digital world is now live: Payments, Copyright & Legal Matters
Thanks again to our friends at Byta for working on this series with us!
This release makes a few small changes, including an updated set of basic edit icons that hopefully will be the start of a consistent icon set for MusicBrainz. Additionally, and sadly, opening voting for new editors has caused the creation of way too many sock-puppet accounts, so we have been forced to restrict voting for beginner editors again. Hopefully the two week wait is not too long; we’ll look into ways to improve beginners’ experience without helping bad actors in the future.
A new release of MusicBrainz Docker is also available that matches this update of MusicBrainz Server. See the release notes for update instructions.
Thanks to all others who tested the beta version!
The git tag is v-2023-07-10.
Continue reading “MusicBrainz Server update, 2023-07-10”We are excited to announce the release of ListenBrainz 2.0.0, an update that we launched around 3 weeks ago with a lot of improvements, and bug fixes. This release saw significant contributions from community members, as well as new contributors making their debut in the ListenBrainz project.
Continue reading “ListenBrainz App 2.0.0: A Major Leap Forward”The MusicBrainz Picard team has just released a third beta for the upcoming Picard 2.9. This addresses issues and feedback we got after the beta 2 release. See the section “What’s new?” for details.
Picard 2.9 Beta 3 is supposed to be the final pre-release we put out for wider testing and to gather feedback on the changes before the final 2.9 release.
Please report any issue through our bug tracker and give us feedback on this beta release on the Community Forums.
Thanks a lot to everybody who contributed to this release with code, translations, bug reports and general feedback.
Continue reading “Picard 2.9 Beta 3”