March 2025 – MetaBrainz Blog
2 posts published by reosarevok and mwiencek during March 2025| MetaBrainz Blog
This release includes several often-requested improvements and bugfixes, such as better guess casing for English contractions, events being sorted by most recent first, place areas being shown properly in search results again, and the label filter feature actually working at all. It also includes a fair amount of minor improvements, such as updated country flags, new and fixed URL support, and a few more locales for aliases. There’s also two new reports to help find and improve incorrect da...| blog.metabrainz.org
This release includes several often-requested improvements and bugfixes, such as better guess casing for English contractions, events being sorted by most recent first, place areas being shown properly in search results again, and the label filter feature actually working at all. It also includes a fair amount of minor improvements, such as updated country flags, new and fixed URL support, and a few more locales for aliases. There’s also two new reports to help find and improve incorrect da...| MetaBrainz Blog
A new version of python-discid, a Python wrapper library for libdiscid, is now available. Version 1.3.0 is a maintenance release, ensuring this small library stays available on modern systems.| MetaBrainz Blog
2 posts published by reosarevok and mwiencek during March 2025| MetaBrainz Blog
We’re back with another small release which mostly fixes a few bugs and adds support for more types of URLs (including some for streaming podcasts). Additionally, starting from this release, …| MetaBrainz Blog
After last year’s migration of the Solr back-end powering the search features of musicbrainz.org to a new cluster running major version 9, and last week’s database schema change, here is a pack of search upgrades affecting both musicbrainz.org and the MusicBrainz mirror. For users, a new search field mediumid is available for the advanced release … Continue reading "MusicBrainz search upgrades, 2025-05-29"| MetaBrainz Blog
A new version 0.6.5 of libdiscid is now available. libdiscid is a C library that allows applications to easily calculate MusicBrainz and freedb disc IDs from audio CDs. It also can extract MCN and ISRC information. This is a maintenance release. There are no changes to the library itself. Version 0.6.5 of libdiscid provides the … Continue reading "libdiscid 0.6.5 released"| MetaBrainz Blog
We’re happy to announce the release of our May 2025 database schema change now! Thanks to all who were patient during Monday’s downtime as we released everything to our production servers. Thi…| MetaBrainz Blog
We are thrilled to announce the selection of 6 contributors to work with us for this year’s Google Summer of Code program! MetaBrainz received many great applications this year. Selecting the final contributors was tough and involved deliberating various factors – what these contributors did right is getting in early, engaging with our community, presenting … Continue reading "Welcome Summer of Code 2025 contributors!"| MetaBrainz Blog
One last release before the schema change, mostly made up of small fixes and improvements. Among them, we have hopefully finally managed to find and eliminate the issue that caused the “Exter…| MetaBrainz Blog
Hello! It is with a heavy heart that I share this sad news today; we’ve just found out that one of our most prolific editors, David Saunders (AKA drsaunde) has passed away. We don’t know much about the circumstances of what happened, but a friend of David’s was kind enough to reach out to us … Continue reading "Rest in Peace drsaunde!"| MetaBrainz Blog
If you are a fan of words going into your ears, please fasten your seatbelt. We have a number of exciting updates for podcasts, broadcasts, audiobooks and audio dramas, including new relationships and updated guidelines! New Audio Drama relationships Audio dramas have some unique relationships that can now be properly added into MusicBrainz’ machine-readable data … Continue reading "Updates to Audiobooks, Audio Dramas, Broadcasts and Podcasts"| MetaBrainz Blog
MusicBrainz is announcing a new schema change release set for May 19, 2025. Erratum: Search upgrades will shortly follow it. Like most of our recent schema changes, it should have little or no impa…| MetaBrainz Blog
