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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.

MusicBrainz Server update, 2024-01-08

Happy New Year 2024! We hope that you enjoyed your Year in Music 2023. Here is a quite small but rapid release as we are returning to a normal rhythm of server updates.

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 derat for having contributed to the code. Thanks to chaban, jesus2099, and yindesu for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to 0x1026, ApeKattQuest, ChurruKa, danBLOO, DyingSlacker, kellnerd, larsimore, Markus O, mfmeulenbelt, outsidecontext, salo.rock, Vac31, wileyfoxyx, xuanqidongjim, yyb987, and zemeles for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2024-01-08.

Explore Your Year in Music 2023

ListenBrainz is back with your #yearinmusic (YIM) reports for 2023! Log in to ListenBrainz (LB) and click here to see your report, or here if you don’t have an account but want to see what we are banging on about.

See your year summed up in a flash new summary collage. Revisit and share your top artists, albums, and tracks from last year. Topped off with new statistics, the new browsable cover collage, links to friends, and playlists created just for you by our hopefully-still–benign machine algorithm.

This year we will also re-run the YIM pages in a few weeks – this means that if you have listens from 2023 stored in last.fm or libre.fm, it’s not too late! Use that LB importer to get your YIM soon.

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!

MusicBrainz Server update, 2023-12-20

Winter release is coming, with a lot of refactoring behind the scenes. In particular, we fixed a lot of text in the website user interface, to more closely follow the design guidelines concocted by Aerozol for a long time. See the below list of tickets for more functional changes.

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 derat and jesus2099 for having contributed patches. Thanks to ApeKattQuest, chaban, chancey, lotheric, and mr_maxis for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to goliv, kellnerd, mfmeulenbelt, outsidecontext, salo.rock, Vac31, and yangmouren for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2023-12-20.

Fresher Fresh Releases

Have you ever wanted to see all the [genre] albums coming out next week?* Go do it in the new and overhauled ListenBrainz Fresh Releases! Live the dream!

A screenshot of the ListenBrainz Fresh Releases feature, with a sticker on it that says ‘always fresh’, and dew drops over everything — So fresh it hurts

As well as greatly improved UI and UX, it has a number of new filters as well as sorting and display options. Check it out.
And, if you’re logged in, visit your very own ‘For you’ section to see what’s recent from your favorite artists.

React Q&A

If you are, like me, an avid follower of MusicBrainz server release notes, you will have been reading about a certain type of update for a number of years – React conversion tasks.

But, unlike me, you may know what React is! For the rest of you – happily drifting on the currents of ignorance with me – I have good news. The MusicBrainz team has sent a Software Engineer tugboat to pull us into the waters of knowledge. A tugboat by the name of yvanzo, who has agreed to answer some questions about React.

MusicBrainz Server update, 2023-11-27

For your Cyber Monday here is a free release of convenient improvements and bugfixes. It adds www.metalmusicarchives.com to the allowed other databases. It also paves the way for improvements in instrument search.

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 derat and Maxr1998 for having contributed patches. Thanks to Brian Cassidy, chaban, Gal Lalouche and HibiscusKazeneko for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to Early6431, itodouble, kellnerd, salo.rock, and Vac31 for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2023-11-27.

MusicBrainz Server update, 2023-11-13

As announced two months ago to mirrors’ administrators, MusicBrainz Server is now requiring Node.js 20.

As part of that move, we’ve also upgraded our required version of Yarn (used to install JavaScript dependencies from npm) to v4. Unless you’re using musicbrainz-docker, which manages Yarn for you, the Yarn upgrade will require some manual steps. These are to be executed from the musicbrainz-server directory:

sudo corepack enable # Installs yarn to /usr/local/bin
rm -rf node_modules
./script/compile_resources.sh

For more information about corepack, see INSTALL.md.

Also as promised two weeks ago to the same people, it is now possible to rebuild indexes using ICU collations by running:

admin/RebuildIndexesUsingCollations.pl

It has to be run whenever the versions of libc/icu have changed on your system. Auto-detecting this situation will also be implemented soon.

For editors, the most important fixed bug is likely the search for edit by relationship type that was timing out. There is otherwise a fair amount of fixed bugs, improvements, strengthened security, and small new features.

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 derat for the couple of UI/UX improvements he coded. Thanks to BestSteve, chaban, DontMindMe, Freso, jesus2099, sammyrayy, and yindesu for having reported bugs and suggested improvements. Thanks to bbiirrdd, claybiockiller, Jaken264, joysriram.sarkar.56, julian45, kellnerd, outsidecontext, portik, reosarevok, salo.rock, SoundwaveUwU, suming, Vac31, wileyfoxyx, yurirhsilva, and Водка665 for updating the translations. And thanks to all others who tested the beta version!

The git tag is v-2023-11-13.

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.