Picard 3.0.4 is a maintenance release for the recently released Picard 3.0 with fixes for reported issues and updated translations. This release fixes crashes on macOS with some language settings as well as a potential crash when updating the plugin list. It also addresses a regression where the match indicator for…
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In the past few months the MetaBrainz team has been fighting a battle against unscrupulous AI companies ignoring common courtesies (such as robots.txt) and scraping the Internet in order to build up their AI models . Rather than downloading our dataset in one complete download, they insist on loading all of…
We created AcousticBrainz 7 years ago and started to collect data with the goal of using that data down the road once we had collected enough. We finally got around to doing this recenty, and realised that the data simply isn’t of high enough quality to be useful for much at all.
The ListenBrainz team has been working hard on moving our primary listen store from InfluxDB to TimescaleDB , and today at UTC 16:00 we’re going to make the switch.
The Picard team is happy to announce the new major version 3.0 of MusicBrainz Picard, now available to download . MusicBrainz Picard is the official tag editor for the MusicBrainz database and helps you get your music collection sorted and cleaned up with data from MusicBrainz.