#metabrainzmeetingnotes, 2026-04-06 🐰 community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from...

man i love editing stuff so much

We dropped a couple of merch designs today! As well as the recent drop of summit shirt illustrations. A ‘new notes!?’ sticker/magnet and “I made 1,000 edits and all I got was this lousy T-shirt”. Rumours abound of secret versions available to high-scorers only… blog.metabrainz.org/2026/03/31/m...

#metabrainzmeetingnotes, 2026-03-30 community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from...

i was going to add this to original post but it was already too long so THANK YOU @planetoffinks.bsky.social for bringing this up. yes, in books your advance is actually your advance, in music your advance must be paid back ALONG WITH TOUR SUPPORT AND EVERY OTHER THING THEY CAN FIT IN. it is unreal

A new version of #python-discid, a Python wrapper library for #libdiscid, is now available. Version 1.4.0 focuses on modernizing the code base and updating the documentation. Full post: blog.metabrainz.org/2026/03/30/p...

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A friend of mine released a song, so I did what everyone does in this situation. Bought the single, generated the acoustic ID and made sure @musicbrainz.org had it in the database. That's what friends do, right? 🙂 musicbrainz.org/release/d160...

I am dutifully adding the JGB catalog to MusicBrainz. The scrobblers will thank me. You wanna scrobble Larva, you can scrobble Larva.

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#metabrainzmeetingnotes, 2026-03-23 Busy busy devs! -a Agenda: Reviews community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from...

#MusicBrainzPicard 3 ALPHA 4 is now available for download. Use with care, backup your files and please report any issues you encounter. Blog post: blog.metabrainz.org/2026/03/20/p...

lord, please grant upon me: the ambition of nobunaga ; the resolve of davinci ; the MusicBrainz of picard

LENS. CLEANING. #memebrainz -a

#metabrainzmeetingnotes, 2026-03-16 OK, the GSoC chaos is getting too much. Important: If you can't follow meeting etiquette then joining the meeting will *not* do your GSoC application any favours! -a Agenda: Reviews community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from...

New merch drop! monkey's beautiful summit designs are now live! Previously only available to #MetaBrainz summit attendees, they have now been adjusted for daily cool wear for cool people. Choose your fighter: synth, bollywood, psychedelic, vaporwave or black metal www.redbubble.com/people/metab...

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#MusicBrainzSchemaChange announcement for 2026-05-11 Schema-wise, this release will be light. At the same time, we’ll be requiring some major dependency upgrades to Perl, PostgreSQL, and Node.js. We’ll also be switching from Redis to Valkey in prod. Full blog post: blog.metabrainz.org/2026/03/11

Thank you to Giampiero Di Carlo, the editor of Rockol, who gave us permission to repost this article remembering Rob, the founder of MusicBrainz: blog.metabrainz.org/2026/03/10/h...

#metabrainzmeetingnotes, 2026-03-09 GSoC chaos! -a Agenda: Reviews community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from...

Been going through and adding some cons from last year to MusicBrainz and wow does it take a while... musicbrainz.org/event/4f18cc...

Thank you to everyone who has shared their memories of Rob. The team wanted to share some of his MetaBrainz story and our personal experiences with the master of mayhem, and this blog post has emerged: blog.metabrainz.org/2026/03/05/r... We miss you Rob.

it's fun to create releases that don't exist yet on musicbrainz

sorry, we can read about him Where? -O

#MusicBrainzPicard 3 ALPHA 3 is now available for download. Work goes on. If you use this, do so with care, backup your files and please report any issues you encounter. Blog post: blog.metabrainz.org/2026/02/25/p...

It is with profound sadness that the MetaBrainz Board of Directors announces the unexpected passing of our Founder and Executive Director, Rob Kaye. Robert’s vision and leadership shaped MeB and left a lasting mark on the music industry and open source movement. blog.metabrainz.org/2026/02/24/r...

#metabrainzmeetingnotes, 2026-02-16 Agenda: Reviews, Discord bridges community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from...

a special day with a special someone #memebrainz -a

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#MusicBrainzServerUpdate, v-2026-02-12.0 A small mid-week release to deploy some behind-the-scenes updates to remove potential vulnerabilities. This release also includes a small URL and interface improvements, and converts more pages to React. blog.metabrainz.org/2026/02/12/m...

#MusicBrainzPicard 3 ALPHA 2 is now available for download. If you use this, do so with care, backup your files and please report any issues you encounter. Blog post: blog.metabrainz.org/2026/02/10/p...

#metabrainzmeetingnotes, 2026-02-09 Agenda: Reviews community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from...

Another very cool third-party project using MB data: A self-hosted MusicBrainz collection and series browser with advanced filtering, streaming integration, and modern design. And open source! github: github.com/tmdecker/col... forum thread: community.metabrainz.org/t/collection... -a

Alright it's Look At My Bandcamp Feed And Try Not To Spend Way Too Much Money On Bandcamp Friday Time

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#metabrainzmeetingnotes, 2026-02-02 MusicBrainz Picard 3 alpha got released! And other goodies -a Agenda: Reviews community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from...

🆕 blog! “Are there any open APIs left?” One of the dreams of Web 2.0 was that website would speak unto website. An "Application Programming Interface" (API) would give programmatic access to structured data, allowing services to seamlessly integrate content from each other. Users would be able […]

Musicbrainz is a powerful addition to the procrastinator's toolbox.

#MusicBrainzPicard 3 ALPHA is now available for download. Use with care - backup your files and please report any issues. Updates: Qt6, plugin system, configure columns and filters, cover art processing, OS support, save session, new tags and variables and MORE: blog.metabrainz.org/2026/01/27/p...

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i definitely have stuff i have to do but what i want to do is self-soothe by importing a lot of metadata from my bandcamp purchases to musicbrainz

Been editing a lot of jazz albums on Musicbrainz, and this might be the most stacked artist credits on one release I'll ever see. Check out those cameos lol

#metabrainzmeetingnotes, 2026-01-26 Wherein GSoC students really starting to get stuck in. Kellnerd releases Harmony updates. Picard 3.0 alpha tomorrow! And more. -a Agenda: Reviews, GSoC Ideas Page community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from...

New qplanner blog post: qplanner.co.uk/blog/Musicbr... Highlights include: * Musicbrainz ID assigned per artist/collaborator * Reworked Stage times importer, using canvas, with several nice improvements * Miscellaneous vagueness

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Musikscenen är ju semst på metadata. MusicBrainz or BUST

A new website that uses MB data was shared by a community member today! Sample-heads, check out samplebrainz.com Source code: github.com/AndrewBelt/S... -a #samplebrainz #musicbrainz

20 years ago... we announced the first commercial project built with MusicBrainz data! Sadly Música Linkara has been taken by time, but since 2006 we have had countless commercial supporters - allowing our servers to keep serving open data to the world. blog.metabrainz.org/2006/01/20/i...

Searching @musicbrainz.org and doing some half-baked deduplication, there are at least 599 different groups/artists with a song just named "Heartbreaker"