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MetaBrainz Foundation Community Blog
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libdiscid 0.7.0
https://blog.metabrainz.org/2026/07/08/libdiscid-0-7-0/
Published: July 8, 2026 07:48
Version 0.7.0 of libdiscid has been released. libdiscid is a C library that allows applications to easily calculate MusicBrainz and freedb disc IDs from audio CDs or CD TOC details. It also can extract MCN and ISRC information. This release fixes several…
Current ListenBrainz server issues/high load, Part 2
https://blog.metabrainz.org/2026/07/06/current-listenbrainz-server-issues-high-load-part-2/
Published: July 6, 2026 18:41
This follow-up post covers how and why our servers are still being impacted, an explanation and examples of what we consider “botting” in ListenBrainz – and an apology, because our last post had some baaad comms! Firstly, we are still experiencing massive…
Current ListenBrainz server issues/high load
https://blog.metabrainz.org/2026/06/30/current-listenbrainz-server-issues-high-load/
Published: June 30, 2026 09:35
Our apologies if you are experiencing outages or slowness on ListenBrainz currently. First it was AI scrapers, now it’s K-pop fans… In short, we are experiencing massive server load from an unexpected and massive increase in listen submissions. Please bear…
Picard 3 beta 5 released
https://blog.metabrainz.org/2026/06/30/picard-3-beta-5-released/
Published: June 30, 2026 07:34
Today, we’re making available the fifth beta version for the upcoming MusicBrainz Picard 3. This new versions brings some important changes: Download links and a detailed list of changes since Picard 3 beta 4 are available below. For a more detailed…
Welcome Summer of Code 2026 contributors!
https://blog.metabrainz.org/2026/06/26/welcome-summer-of-code-2026-contributors/
Published: June 26, 2026 11:09
We are excited to announce the 7 GSOC participants working with us this summer on MetaBrainz projects! Our apologies for not publishing this sooner, in this complicated first part of the year we simply forgot the announcement, but rest assured the work is…
Upcoming changes to user accounts and authentication
https://blog.metabrainz.org/2026/06/25/upcoming-changes-to-user-accounts-and-authentication/
Published: June 25, 2026 15:10
We are in the process of moving user accounts, authentication and OAuth applications from the MusicBrainz website to the MetaBrainz website.This centralizes our account management between all the *Brainz projects, along with some security improvements.…
Phishing attempts using MetaBrainz messages
https://blog.metabrainz.org/2026/06/19/phishing-attempts-using-metabrainz-messages/
Published: June 19, 2026 07:17
There have been reports of users receiving phishing messages via the MetaBrainz messaging service. Remember: MetaBrainz staff will never ask for your password. MetaBrainz staff will never ask you to log in to a third-party site (or ‘verify’ your username…
Picard 3 beta 4 fixes startup issues on macOS
https://blog.metabrainz.org/2026/05/31/picard-3-beta-4-fixes-startup-issues-on-macos/
Published: May 31, 2026 15:38
We have released Picard 3 beta 4. The recently released beta 3 did crash on macOS and when running the picard-plugins command line tool, both has been fixed in this. In addition beta 4 fixes display issues in the new log view. Download links and a detailed…
Picard 3 beta 3 released
https://blog.metabrainz.org/2026/05/29/picard-3-beta-3-released/
Published: May 29, 2026 15:21
Today, we’re making available another pre-release version for the upcoming MusicBrainz Picard 3. This beta release offers various bugfixes and improvements over the last beta. Most notably the release lookup and matching was improved, several cover art…
MusicBrainz database schema change release, 2026-05-11 (with upgrade instructions)
Published: May 12, 2026 00:54
We’re happy to announce the release of our May 2026 database schema change now! Thanks to all who were patient during Monday’s downtime as we released everything to our production servers. This is a fairly small database schema change release which mostly…
Downtime for PostgreSQL / MusicBrainz schema change upgrade: Monday, May 11, 15:00 UTC
Published: May 10, 2026 20:25
On Monday, May 11, at 15:00 UTC (8am PT, 11am ET, 5:00pm CEST), we’ll be: See the previous announcement for more information. We’ll be working to restore services as quickly as possible, but expect MusicBrainz, ListenBrainz, the Cover Art Archive, and…