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This is a bugfix release of libdiscid.
There are already lots of changes (features) ready for 0.6.0, but I did want to release these fixes separately, since they have a high impact on the platforms involved.
0.6.0 is probably ready in a couple of weeks.
Information, documentation and other links are at:
http://musicbrainz.org/doc/libdiscid
That includes builds for Windows and Mac OS X.
We have finally created a new version of our Virtual Machine and we’re currently seeding it via BitTorrent. If you have some spare bandwidth and would like to help seed this torrent, please join it and leave your client running.
You can find the torrent file here. (edit: for the curious/disk-limited, the downloaded .ova is 10.13GB). Please read the instructions for how to use this VM.
You should consider this VM as beta quality as it not been tested at all. Let’s hope for the best!
UPDATE: We’ve got a workaround for getting this VM to work in VirtualBox. It works just fine under VMWare Fusion and Player.
UPDATE 2: We’ve added a second tracker to the BitTorrent.
We’ve just finished deploying the second update to musicbrainz.org for July. Continuing the trend, this release is primarily bug fixes with a few new improvements. Notably, people should be happy to hear that the Cover Art Archive now supports PNGs and GIFs, ISRC editing has become easier, and the release and relationship editors should be a little bit more stable. Many thanks to Nicolás Tamargo along with the MusicBrainz team for their continued work on MusicBrainz. Here’s what’s changed:
The Git tag for this release is v-2013-07-22.
After we were not able to confirm space in our previously agreed city, we started looking for alternative places to host our summit and Wikimedia Germany in Berlin graciously agreed to host us!
This means that we’re going to hold our annual MusicBrainz summit at Wikimedia Germany in Berlin on September 21 and 22. However, please note that space is limited to 20 people, so if you’re interested in attending, please sign up as soon as you can!
Please take a look at the summit wiki page and then add yourself to the appropriate places in that page if you’d like to come.
I’m looking forward to seeing familiar and new faces!
The OSU Open Source Lab hosts our FTP site in the US (thanks!!), but downloading from it from the EU is quite slow. We’re wondering if anyone would be interested in setting up an FTP mirror that is located in the EU? Sadly, we have no idea what sorts of bandwidth would be required for this, but we’re currently using less than 50GB of disk space.
If you’re interested, please leave a comment. Thanks!
We’ve just finished deploying the latest version of MusicBrainz on our servers. This release is again primarily a bug fix release, but as always we’ve got a couple of improvements in added too. Thanks to Michael Wiencek, Nicolás Tamargo, nikki and the MusicBrainz team for all their work on this release! Here’s a list of what’s changed:
The Git tag for this release is v-2013-07-08.
There has been quite some activity regarding libdiscid in the last few months, here is some more: I have released dotnet-discid 0.2 which provides .NET / Mono bindings for libdiscid. The source is available at GitHub. For easy usage Windows users might want to use the NuGet package. Alternatively you can download source and binary releases at http://users.musicbrainz.org/~outsidecontext/dotnet-discid/. To use the assembly you will also need the native libdiscid release (e.g. discid.dll on Windows or any other native package for your platform). On Unix-like platforms you can just use the system wide installation of libdiscid.
No API docs yet, but the examples on Github will get you started. The library should be straight forward to use. This is an early release but it supports all the features provided by the latest libdiscid 0.5 (while still supporting earlier versions). I don’t expect many changes in the API but I will provide better documentation soon.
This has already been announced on the mailing list back in May: ruby-discid, the Ruby bindings for libdiscid, have been released in version 1.0. This libdiscid binding for Ruby is the successor of mb-discid. As libdiscid has gained quite a few features in the past I took the opportunity to simplify the API and do some fundamental changes to ruby–discid.
The probably easiest way to install and use ruby-discid is by using the Ruby gem. For Ubuntu users there is a PPA and for Arch Linux users an AUR package available.
In februar I announced a beta version of the first python binding of libdiscid. A couple months have passed and I can now announce the first stable release of python-discid.
The main purpose is the calculation of MusicBrainz Disc IDs from a CD-AUDIO disc or a TOC of such a disc, but reading of ISRCs and the MCN (EAN/UPC) are also supported.
Disc IDs can be submitted without further dependencies. For lookup and ISRC submission it is recommended to use it together with python-musicbrainzngs.
Python 2 >= 2.6 or Python 3 >= 3.1 as well as libdiscid >= 0.2.2 are required. Newer libdiscid features need a newer libdiscid, but there are methods available to check for these conditions.
If you still have a program using python-musicbrainz2, I recommend upgrading to the combination of python-discid and python-musicbrainzngs, since python-musicbrainz2 uses a deprecated web service and is not actively maintained anymore.
The main website and API documentation is at readthedocs, the repository and bugtracker are at GitHub.
Official source tarballs are available on pypi and releases are announced in this blog. There are several linux packages available and listed in the documentation.
If you have been using a pre-release version of python-discid you will have to update your code.
Compared to python-discid 0.5.0 you now have to use discid.get_default_device(), rather than discid.DEFAULT_DEVICE. If you were using 0.4.0, you should also stop using DiscId() directly or a DeprecationWarning is displayed.
There is also a patch release 1.0.2 available, which has no code changes compared to 1.0.0.
There was an intermediate 1.0.1, which tried to make some convenience changes for beta users, but failed. 1.0.1 was never available as a tarball, but the tag and changelog exists.
We’ve just finished pushing out another version of MusicBrainz. Sorry that we’re a day behind on this one, yesterday we had a few tests that needed fixing before we could release. This release is mostly bug fixes and small improvements, and should solve problems with the “remember me” login feature working incorrectly. This upgrade might have lost a few remember me tokens, but if you are still seeing problems after a few days of the site, please leave a comment on MBS-6471.
Many thanks to Lukáš Lalinský, Michael Wiencek, Nicolás Tamargo and the rest of the MusicBrainz team for their work on this release. Here’s what changed:
The Git tag for this release is v-2013-06-25.