Freso
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Comment · 5 years ago
The comments on https://github.com/freenode/web-7.0/pull/516 are, well, an interesting read.
Comment · 5 years ago
As someone managing a number of IRC rooms, how do we configure this? (I don’t use Matrix.)
Comment · 6 years ago
I don’t see any of those licenses listed on https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical and it took me a bunch of digging in the license-review mailing list archives to find when it was submitted for consideration (most recently anyway, sounds like it was submitted previously too): https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review_lists....
The consensus on that list is that License Zero violates certain tenets of the Open Source principles, and as such software released under a License Zero license is not open source software. By extension, this means that getting to work full time on License Zero software means that you’re not working full time on open source software.
Comment · 6 years ago
> FreeDB avoids this problem by supporting multiple entries for any given disc.
FWIW, something somewhat similar to this will Soon™ be part of MusicBrainz too: https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-4501 – you might want to read through there and maybe even put your own thoughts about what it can be used for in a comment on that ticket.
> MB […] used to have rules specifically banning anything except Camel Cased English Literary Title style
Just out of curiosity: When was this? I’ve been involved with MusicBrainz since summer of 2006 (ie., for over 10 years) and this hasn’t been the case for as long as I’ve been around.
Comment · 6 years ago
Cover art, when available, is via the Cover Art Archive API: https://coverartarchive.org/api
(The Release lookup has a `cover-art-archive` JSON object which contains information about what can be fetched from CAA.)
Comment · 8 years ago
… And I think this has exactly been @bunderbunder's argument from the start? That the "definition" put forth by threeseed is naïve and could at best be usable on an amateur level, but as soon as you start having money involved, you really want a more in-depth/verbose/specific definition (like the one the OSI provides), rather than simply being "I can read (and thus modify) the source."
Comment · 9 years ago
Note that our current search server software is in "minimal maintenance" mode. We're working on a replacement which will hopefully allow for a lot of improvements to search rankings etc., but a lot of other things have higher priority (like actually being able to serve requests in spite of getting hammered by bots and spammers).
Of course, MusicBrainz is an open source endeavour. The old search server maintainer was a volunteer from the community. If you believe you can do a better job at running our search server, please join us in #metabrainz at Freenode and introduce yourself.
The more hands we are, the more we can lift. :)
Comment · 9 years ago
Oh, and the mp_top_stuff.html page was created less than a week ago.
You're absolutely right that we could, in theory, have that data, but we do not currently. Not in any usable form (for this purpose) anyway.
Comment · 9 years ago
Note that ListenBrainz may be used for getting "popularity" metrics, but that is not its intended goal.
Comment · 9 years ago
LinkedBrainz is not something that the MetaBrainz team is directly involved with, however, according to themselves, «[they are] back, if basic for now.»
(Note that there's also a "GraphBrainz" project (also not something MetaBrainz is involved with), posted about earlier here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14479031 )
Comment · 9 years ago
Heh. It's about 17 years since MusicBrainz started now. :)
Comment · 9 years ago
We may never have the stats Spotify has, but we are trying to get listening information via the in-development ListenBrainz: https://listenbrainz.org
I'm not sure when/if we'll be able to tie it in with MusicBrainz directly, but for someone like exogen, ListenBrainz may be a good basis to figure out relative popularity of various Recordings/Tracks regardless.
Comment · 9 years ago
Thanks! Looks like it's a fairly old post (and thus working with an old version of the schema), but still interesting to see how it's being used "out there". :)
Comment · 9 years ago
Are you aware of the AcousticBrainz[1] and (upcoming/in-development) ListenBrainz[2] projects? We at MetaBrainz (the organisation behind MusicBrainz and the other *Brainz projects) really hope that the combination of data MusicBrainz, AcousticBrainz, and ListenBrainz will enable powering a lot of open recommendation engines. :)
[1]: https://acousticbrainz.org/ [2]: https://listenbrainz.org/
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