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Planning your week? Cory Doctorow’s #booktalk on ENSHITTIFICATION is your chance to learn who broke the internet & how we can fix it.
The concept was the 2023 Word of the Year & an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror.
📆 Nov 21st
🕙 10 AM PST
📍 Online
www.eventbrite.com/e/1839608451...
The concept was the 2023 Word of the Year & an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror.
📆 Nov 21st
🕙 10 AM PST
📍 Online
www.eventbrite.com/e/1839608451...
November 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Planning your week? Cory Doctorow’s #booktalk on ENSHITTIFICATION is your chance to learn who broke the internet & how we can fix it.
The concept was the 2023 Word of the Year & an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror.
📆 Nov 21st
🕙 10 AM PST
📍 Online
www.eventbrite.com/e/1839608451...
The concept was the 2023 Word of the Year & an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror.
📆 Nov 21st
🕙 10 AM PST
📍 Online
www.eventbrite.com/e/1839608451...
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#ListenBrainzServerUpdate, v-2025-11-17.0
Some small updates, including a 'create account' link in the side nav (when logged out) and an option to include albums with no covers in your Art Creator cover grids (listenbrainz.org/explore/art-...). -a
github.com/metabrainz/l...
Some small updates, including a 'create account' link in the side nav (when logged out) and an option to include albums with no covers in your Art Creator cover grids (listenbrainz.org/explore/art-...). -a
github.com/metabrainz/l...
November 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
#ListenBrainzServerUpdate, v-2025-11-17.0
Some small updates, including a 'create account' link in the side nav (when logged out) and an option to include albums with no covers in your Art Creator cover grids (listenbrainz.org/explore/art-...). -a
github.com/metabrainz/l...
Some small updates, including a 'create account' link in the side nav (when logged out) and an option to include albums with no covers in your Art Creator cover grids (listenbrainz.org/explore/art-...). -a
github.com/metabrainz/l...
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huh, you can download the entire MusicBrainz Postgres Dump and just self host it. Nice.
November 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
huh, you can download the entire MusicBrainz Postgres Dump and just self host it. Nice.
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Non mais mettre des crawlers sur des sites alors que les datasets de données sont libres mdrr
November 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Non mais mettre des crawlers sur des sites alors que les datasets de données sont libres mdrr
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PSA: We are redesigning our #YearInMusic page this year.
One consequence is that previous YiM pages are going away (all will be collated into the new YiM page/design, rather than having separate pages).
If you liked the designs from previous YiM, now is the time to save those images and pages! -a
One consequence is that previous YiM pages are going away (all will be collated into the new YiM page/design, rather than having separate pages).
If you liked the designs from previous YiM, now is the time to save those images and pages! -a
November 15, 2025 at 11:11 AM
PSA: We are redesigning our #YearInMusic page this year.
One consequence is that previous YiM pages are going away (all will be collated into the new YiM page/design, rather than having separate pages).
If you liked the designs from previous YiM, now is the time to save those images and pages! -a
One consequence is that previous YiM pages are going away (all will be collated into the new YiM page/design, rather than having separate pages).
If you liked the designs from previous YiM, now is the time to save those images and pages! -a
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Our lovely server team (aka Zas and Julian) are hard at work on this issue. Unfortunately it's not quite as simple as running [product x], but they are on it. Thank you so much for your ongoing patience!
And f AI scrapers -a
And f AI scrapers -a
Have you ever wondered “was the recent MB slowdown due to mass-IP AI crawling again?”
The answer is almost always “yes” -a
The answer is almost always “yes” -a
November 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Our lovely server team (aka Zas and Julian) are hard at work on this issue. Unfortunately it's not quite as simple as running [product x], but they are on it. Thank you so much for your ongoing patience!
And f AI scrapers -a
And f AI scrapers -a
Haven't heard this one before! -a
there needs to be a sort of @metabrainz.org database for retail cannabis products.
November 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Haven't heard this one before! -a
We've been checking out @subvert.fm, the "collectively owned Bandcamp successor".
Some great discussion happening over there! If you are an artist or label with an interest in equitable music platforms and structures, check it out and consider signing up for the Alpha. -a
#subvert subvert.fm
Some great discussion happening over there! If you are an artist or label with an interest in equitable music platforms and structures, check it out and consider signing up for the Alpha. -a
#subvert subvert.fm
Subvert — The Collectively Owned Music Marketplace
A music platform owned by us all. Join Subvert to sell your work, support artists, and shape our shared future. Sincerely Ours.
subvert.fm
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
We've been checking out @subvert.fm, the "collectively owned Bandcamp successor".
Some great discussion happening over there! If you are an artist or label with an interest in equitable music platforms and structures, check it out and consider signing up for the Alpha. -a
#subvert subvert.fm
Some great discussion happening over there! If you are an artist or label with an interest in equitable music platforms and structures, check it out and consider signing up for the Alpha. -a
#subvert subvert.fm
#metabrainzmeetingnotes, 2025-11-10
Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!
Agenda: Reviews
community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from...
Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!
Agenda: Reviews
community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from...
Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2025-11-10
Meeting start: IRC Logs for #metabrainz | MetaBrainz Chatlogs Meeting wiki page: MetaBrainz Meeting - MusicBrainz Wiki Agenda Reviews Last meeting: 2025-11-03 Next meeting: 2025-11-17 @reosarevo...
community.metabrainz.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
#metabrainzmeetingnotes, 2025-11-10
Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!
Agenda: Reviews
community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from...
Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!
Agenda: Reviews
community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from...
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@mayhemchaos.bsky.social dropping a sneaky interview!
"If somebody takes a thousand hours of effort from us and gives us an hour back, we're happy." -a
www.lorenzosmusic.com/2025/11/musi...
"If somebody takes a thousand hours of effort from us and gives us an hour back, we're happy." -a
www.lorenzosmusic.com/2025/11/musi...
MusicBrainz - Robert Kaye - Community, Open Source, and Metadata - The Lorenzo's Music Podcast
This episode of the podcast, I meet Robert Kaye, the founder of MusicBrainz a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing open source music metadata
www.lorenzosmusic.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:50 AM
@mayhemchaos.bsky.social dropping a sneaky interview!
"If somebody takes a thousand hours of effort from us and gives us an hour back, we're happy." -a
www.lorenzosmusic.com/2025/11/musi...
"If somebody takes a thousand hours of effort from us and gives us an hour back, we're happy." -a
www.lorenzosmusic.com/2025/11/musi...
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#ListenBrainzServerUpdate, v-2025-11-05.0
The notes say "This week, only improvements to the Art Creator feature:"
ONLY!? Heck no!! The stat Art Creator is out of beta and we get a sweet new template and an image caption option 🎉💪 Check it out: listenbrainz.org/explore/
github.com/metabrainz/l...
The notes say "This week, only improvements to the Art Creator feature:"
ONLY!? Heck no!! The stat Art Creator is out of beta and we get a sweet new template and an image caption option 🎉💪 Check it out: listenbrainz.org/explore/
github.com/metabrainz/l...
November 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
#ListenBrainzServerUpdate, v-2025-11-05.0
The notes say "This week, only improvements to the Art Creator feature:"
ONLY!? Heck no!! The stat Art Creator is out of beta and we get a sweet new template and an image caption option 🎉💪 Check it out: listenbrainz.org/explore/
github.com/metabrainz/l...
The notes say "This week, only improvements to the Art Creator feature:"
ONLY!? Heck no!! The stat Art Creator is out of beta and we get a sweet new template and an image caption option 🎉💪 Check it out: listenbrainz.org/explore/
github.com/metabrainz/l...
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What's an artist with consistently amazing cover art?
Share/link their #ListenBrainz artist page, which features a collage of their 10 most popular albums.
How do you rate these?
Blind Guardian - listenbrainz.org/artist/7fa7f...
KUURO - listenbrainz.org/artist/bfdbb... -a
Share/link their #ListenBrainz artist page, which features a collage of their 10 most popular albums.
How do you rate these?
Blind Guardian - listenbrainz.org/artist/7fa7f...
KUURO - listenbrainz.org/artist/bfdbb... -a
November 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
What's an artist with consistently amazing cover art?
Share/link their #ListenBrainz artist page, which features a collage of their 10 most popular albums.
How do you rate these?
Blind Guardian - listenbrainz.org/artist/7fa7f...
KUURO - listenbrainz.org/artist/bfdbb... -a
Share/link their #ListenBrainz artist page, which features a collage of their 10 most popular albums.
How do you rate these?
Blind Guardian - listenbrainz.org/artist/7fa7f...
KUURO - listenbrainz.org/artist/bfdbb... -a
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#MusicBrainzServerUpdate, 2025-11-03
A bunch of URL improvements, a couple of bug fixes, and some progress in the React conversion. Additionally, address verification emails will be sent with the new email service now, and look substantially nicer!
blog.metabrainz.org/2025/11/03/m...
A bunch of URL improvements, a couple of bug fixes, and some progress in the React conversion. Additionally, address verification emails will be sent with the new email service now, and look substantially nicer!
blog.metabrainz.org/2025/11/03/m...
MusicBrainz Server update, 2025-11-03 – MetaBrainz Blog
blog.metabrainz.org
November 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
#MusicBrainzServerUpdate, 2025-11-03
A bunch of URL improvements, a couple of bug fixes, and some progress in the React conversion. Additionally, address verification emails will be sent with the new email service now, and look substantially nicer!
blog.metabrainz.org/2025/11/03/m...
A bunch of URL improvements, a couple of bug fixes, and some progress in the React conversion. Additionally, address verification emails will be sent with the new email service now, and look substantially nicer!
blog.metabrainz.org/2025/11/03/m...
#metabrainzmeetingnotes, 2025-11-03
Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!
Agenda: Reviews
community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from...
Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!
Agenda: Reviews
community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from...
Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2025-11-03
Meeting start: IRC Logs for #metabrainz | MetaBrainz Chatlogs Meeting wiki page: MetaBrainz Meeting - MusicBrainz Wiki Agenda Reviews Last meeting: 2025-10-27 Next meeting: 2025-11-10 @reosarevo...
community.metabrainz.org
November 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
#metabrainzmeetingnotes, 2025-11-03
Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!
Agenda: Reviews
community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from...
Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!
Agenda: Reviews
community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from...
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#metabrainzmeetingnotes, 2025-10-27
Welcome to another Monday MetaBrainz Meeting, ☃️winter edition 🎄!
Agenda: Reviews
community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from...
Welcome to another Monday MetaBrainz Meeting, ☃️winter edition 🎄!
Agenda: Reviews
community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from...
Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2025-10-27
Meeting start: IRC Logs for #metabrainz | MetaBrainz Chatlogs Meeting wiki page: MetaBrainz Meeting - MusicBrainz Wiki Agenda Reviews Last meeting: 2025-10-20 Next meeting: 2025-11-03 @reosarevo...
community.metabrainz.org
October 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
#metabrainzmeetingnotes, 2025-10-27
Welcome to another Monday MetaBrainz Meeting, ☃️winter edition 🎄!
Agenda: Reviews
community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from...
Welcome to another Monday MetaBrainz Meeting, ☃️winter edition 🎄!
Agenda: Reviews
community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from...
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Any theatre data-heads out there? Input wanted:
community.metabrainz.org/t/how-to-cat... -a
#theatre #musical #broadway #opensource #data #cast
community.metabrainz.org/t/how-to-cat... -a
#theatre #musical #broadway #opensource #data #cast
How to catalogue live musical theatre casts?
I am interested in cataloguing live musical theater casts but there is no guidance currently in the style guidelines. I suppose it would look something like.. Wonderful Town Cast (Original Broadway p...
community.metabrainz.org
October 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Any theatre data-heads out there? Input wanted:
community.metabrainz.org/t/how-to-cat... -a
#theatre #musical #broadway #opensource #data #cast
community.metabrainz.org/t/how-to-cat... -a
#theatre #musical #broadway #opensource #data #cast
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#ListenBrainzServerUpdate, v-2025-10-27.0
You now have a cover art collage on your stats page! We rewrote the internals of the LB music player (aka BrainzPlayer) to improve performance and fix some bugs. Let us know if you have issues with music playback on the website.
github.com/metabrainz/l...
You now have a cover art collage on your stats page! We rewrote the internals of the LB music player (aka BrainzPlayer) to improve performance and fix some bugs. Let us know if you have issues with music playback on the website.
github.com/metabrainz/l...
October 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
#ListenBrainzServerUpdate, v-2025-10-27.0
You now have a cover art collage on your stats page! We rewrote the internals of the LB music player (aka BrainzPlayer) to improve performance and fix some bugs. Let us know if you have issues with music playback on the website.
github.com/metabrainz/l...
You now have a cover art collage on your stats page! We rewrote the internals of the LB music player (aka BrainzPlayer) to improve performance and fix some bugs. Let us know if you have issues with music playback on the website.
github.com/metabrainz/l...
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I made a new wiki page to list all the cool apps/websites/etc that use ListenBrainz data, and my brain immediately went blank.
What should I add?
wiki.musicbrainz.org/ListenBrainz...
P.S. Not streamers/players that scrobble *to* ListenBrainz, that is another page :D -a
What should I add?
wiki.musicbrainz.org/ListenBrainz...
P.S. Not streamers/players that scrobble *to* ListenBrainz, that is another page :D -a
ListenBrainz Enabled Applications - MusicBrainz Wiki
wiki.musicbrainz.org
October 23, 2025 at 5:18 AM
I made a new wiki page to list all the cool apps/websites/etc that use ListenBrainz data, and my brain immediately went blank.
What should I add?
wiki.musicbrainz.org/ListenBrainz...
P.S. Not streamers/players that scrobble *to* ListenBrainz, that is another page :D -a
What should I add?
wiki.musicbrainz.org/ListenBrainz...
P.S. Not streamers/players that scrobble *to* ListenBrainz, that is another page :D -a
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Tomorrow’s the big event! 🎉 Celebrate 1 trillion saved pages with The Web We’ve Built with #InternetArchive. Join in San Francisco or online 🌐
📅 Weds, Oct 22
🕖 7 PM PT
🖥️ Virtual ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1626431011...
🎟️ In Person ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1626438133...
#Wayback1T
📅 Weds, Oct 22
🕖 7 PM PT
🖥️ Virtual ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1626431011...
🎟️ In Person ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1626438133...
#Wayback1T
October 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Tomorrow’s the big event! 🎉 Celebrate 1 trillion saved pages with The Web We’ve Built with #InternetArchive. Join in San Francisco or online 🌐
📅 Weds, Oct 22
🕖 7 PM PT
🖥️ Virtual ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1626431011...
🎟️ In Person ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1626438133...
#Wayback1T
📅 Weds, Oct 22
🕖 7 PM PT
🖥️ Virtual ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1626431011...
🎟️ In Person ➡️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1626438133...
#Wayback1T
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Often taken for granted, MusicBrainz has an insanely well-developed and researched instrument selection/tree, thanks to our "Instrument Inserter" ApeKattQuest, MonkeyPython.
Get an insight into his latest work on Veena (aka Indian chordophones) in this blog post: blog.metabrainz.org/2025/10/17/e...
Get an insight into his latest work on Veena (aka Indian chordophones) in this blog post: blog.metabrainz.org/2025/10/17/e...
Ensembling: Veena MiniVersion or Indian chordophones oh my! – MetaBrainz Blog
blog.metabrainz.org
October 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Often taken for granted, MusicBrainz has an insanely well-developed and researched instrument selection/tree, thanks to our "Instrument Inserter" ApeKattQuest, MonkeyPython.
Get an insight into his latest work on Veena (aka Indian chordophones) in this blog post: blog.metabrainz.org/2025/10/17/e...
Get an insight into his latest work on Veena (aka Indian chordophones) in this blog post: blog.metabrainz.org/2025/10/17/e...
#metabrainzmeetingnotes, 2025-10-20
Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!
Agenda: Reviews
community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from...
Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!
Agenda: Reviews
community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from...
October 21, 2025 at 8:27 AM
#metabrainzmeetingnotes, 2025-10-20
Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!
Agenda: Reviews
community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from...
Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!
Agenda: Reviews
community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from...
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#MusicBrainzServerUpdate, 2025-10-13
- API browse query can get all sub-events of an event
- Edits now include information about the release it was entered from
- We are now running MTCaptcha
- Select the language you want to receive emails in
- Bug fixes etc -a
blog.metabrainz.org/2025/10/13/m...
- API browse query can get all sub-events of an event
- Edits now include information about the release it was entered from
- We are now running MTCaptcha
- Select the language you want to receive emails in
- Bug fixes etc -a
blog.metabrainz.org/2025/10/13/m...
MusicBrainz Server update, 2025-10-13 – MetaBrainz Blog
blog.metabrainz.org
October 20, 2025 at 12:09 PM
#MusicBrainzServerUpdate, 2025-10-13
- API browse query can get all sub-events of an event
- Edits now include information about the release it was entered from
- We are now running MTCaptcha
- Select the language you want to receive emails in
- Bug fixes etc -a
blog.metabrainz.org/2025/10/13/m...
- API browse query can get all sub-events of an event
- Edits now include information about the release it was entered from
- We are now running MTCaptcha
- Select the language you want to receive emails in
- Bug fixes etc -a
blog.metabrainz.org/2025/10/13/m...
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What a great article!
If you've bounced off MusicBrainz Picard before but want to give it another go, check out this comprehensive description and walkthrough (even translated to the language to your choice it is very good 👌) -a
If you've bounced off MusicBrainz Picard before but want to give it another go, check out this comprehensive description and walkthrough (even translated to the language to your choice it is very good 👌) -a
🟠️ Et un nouvel article tout chaud sur le blog! 😁️
Aujourd'hui je vous parle de #MusicBrainz et de #Picard (rien à voir avec les surgelés 😝️), un combo permettant de faciliter l'étiquetage de sa collection musicale!
➡️ blog.flozz.fr/2025/10/13/d...
Bonne lecture! 😄️
#musique #music #application #app
Aujourd'hui je vous parle de #MusicBrainz et de #Picard (rien à voir avec les surgelés 😝️), un combo permettant de faciliter l'étiquetage de sa collection musicale!
➡️ blog.flozz.fr/2025/10/13/d...
Bonne lecture! 😄️
#musique #music #application #app
De l'importance de bien taguer sa musique, découverte de MusicBrainz Picard
Dans l'article précédent, je vous avais expliqué comment je me procurais de la musique pour mon cloud musical. Aujourd'hui on va parler de l'étape d'après : l'étiquetage. Une fois qu'on a récupéré de ...
blog.flozz.fr
October 14, 2025 at 3:13 AM
What a great article!
If you've bounced off MusicBrainz Picard before but want to give it another go, check out this comprehensive description and walkthrough (even translated to the language to your choice it is very good 👌) -a
If you've bounced off MusicBrainz Picard before but want to give it another go, check out this comprehensive description and walkthrough (even translated to the language to your choice it is very good 👌) -a