Google Summer of Code 2024 – MetaBrainz Blog

GSoC 2024: MusicBrainz – Internet Archive integration: Saving external links in the Wayback Machine

Introduction

Greetings, Everyone!

I am Ashutosh Aswal (IRC nick yellowhatpro), a Computer Science grad from PEC University, India. This is my second time contributing to MetaBrainz as a GSoC contributor, and unlike the last time, when I contributed to the ListenBrainz Android app, this year, I took a challenge to learn a new language and framework (Rust and Postgres) to create this delightful project, Melba, which stands for MusicBrainz’s External Links wayBack machine Archiver.

As the name suggests, the project saves external webpages linked in the MusicBrainz database to the Internet Archive using Wayback Machine API. Let me walk you through the making of Melba.

Let’s begin!! ( •̀ ω •́ )✧

GSoC 2024: Picard image processing

Hello, I’m Giorgio Fontanive (aka twodoorcoupe), a computer engineering student from Italy. For the past few months I’ve been working on Picard under the mentorship of zas and outsidecontext.

Objective

Currently, Picard can retrieve releases’ cover art images from multiple providers and embed these into music files’ tags or save them as separate files. While most cover art providers allow some options over things like size, the user still has little control over the final images.

The goal of the project was to fix this by adding more options to filter and to post process images, independent of the provider, while also having different options for images embedded into tags and the ones saved as separate files.

GSoC 2024: New Email Service with Internationalization

This post is also available on Jade’s blog

Personal Introduction

Hello! I’m Jade Ellis, AKA JadedBlueEyes. I’m an undergraduate Computer Science student at the University of Kent in England. I was thrilled to be selected as a participant in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2024 program. My project focused on developing an email service with internationalisation support, MJML-based markup and text fallback to produce emails that are visually appealing and accessible to as many people as possible.

Reason for the Project

The MusicBrainz project sends thousands of emails every day to its diverse contributors. However, the existing email system was limited, having organically grown over the project’s lifetime. It could only send emails in English, and only in plain text. The experience that new contributors got could only be described as unfriendly. The overarching goal of my proposal was to improve this.

Faces of Summer of Code 2024

Look at these glorious faces. Look at them.

A screenshot of a video chat, with 16 lovely participants visible. — *Click here for full resolution image*

Last week there was a short meeting with all GSoC contributors¹ and mentors² present. We used the opportunity to put faces to names, explain how MetaBrainz works, and answer any questions. Motivation is high, and everyone is looking forward to getting started with coding this week!