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The #MetaBrainz Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to keeping @musicbrainz, @listenbrainz, @bookbrainz and all their sister projects free and open source. This account reposts from all projects.
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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
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
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#metabrainzmeetingnotes, 2025-11-10

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...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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musicbrainz.org
A screenshot of MusicBrainz alerts, due to crawlers. It looks bad.
November 10, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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musicbrainz.org
@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...
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
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listenbrainz.org
#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...
A mockup of a open ListenBrainz ‘box’ with a bunch of new Art Creator statistic collages flying out and looking pretty damn cool if I do say so myself, with text: “new release v-2025-11-05.0”.
November 5, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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listenbrainz.org
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
A screenshot of the ListenBrainz artist page cover art collage for Blind Guardian, featuring their top 10 most-listened album covers A screenshot of the ListenBrainz artist page cover art collage for Kuuro, featuring their top 10 most-listened album covers
November 4, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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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...
MusicBrainz Server update, 2025-11-03 – MetaBrainz Blog
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November 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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#metabrainzmeetingnotes, 2025-11-03

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...
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November 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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What's good? -a
November 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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#metabrainzmeetingnotes, 2025-10-27

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...
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October 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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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
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...
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October 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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listenbrainz.org
#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...
A mockup of a open ListenBrainz ‘box’ with a screenshot of the new stats art collage, with text: “new release v-2025-10-27.0”.
October 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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listenbrainz.org
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
ListenBrainz Enabled Applications - MusicBrainz Wiki
wiki.musicbrainz.org
October 23, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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archive.org
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
Poster with a gradient blue background. Large text reads “the web we’ve built.” Smaller text says “Celebrating 1 trillion web pages archived.” Pixelated 3D icons of a floppy disk, magnifying glass, cursor arrow, computer window, and others radiate outward from a bright starburst in the center. On the right, text lists event details: “Wednesday, October 22, 5–10PM PT. Live stream: 7–8PM PT. 300 Funston Avenue, San Francisco.” The Internet Archive logo appears in the bottom right corner.
October 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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musicbrainz.org
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...
Ensembling: Veena MiniVersion or Indian chordophones oh my! – MetaBrainz Blog
blog.metabrainz.org
October 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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#metabrainzmeetingnotes, 2025-10-20

Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!

Agenda: Reviews
community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from...
October 21, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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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...
MusicBrainz Server update, 2025-10-13 – MetaBrainz Blog
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October 20, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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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
October 14, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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#metabrainzmeetingnotes, 2025-10-13

Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!

Agenda: Reviews
community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from...
Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2025-10-13
IRC Logs for #metabrainz | MetaBrainz Chatlogs Meeting wiki page: MetaBrainz Meeting - MusicBrainz Wiki Agenda Reviews Last meeting: 2025-10-06 Next meeting: 2025-10-20 *@reosarevok: Welcome to ...
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October 14, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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listenbrainz.org
#ListenBrainzServerUpdate, v-2025-10-11.0

An update to block calls from a specific 'vibe-coded' app that has contributed to server issues in the last day or two.
Blunt force until we finish better emergency caching mechanisms! Apologies if you have experienced delays -a

github.com/metabrainz/l...
A mockup of a ListenBrainz ‘box’ with the text: “New Release, v-2025-10-11.0”
October 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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listenbrainz.org
Friends don't let friends not track and backup their Spotify listening history with listenbrainz.org!

Owning your own data is not just for nerds. It's only a few clicks and means having control of your past history, future playlist generation, and the ability to change platforms if you need to. -a
culturecrave.co Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · Oct 6
Spotify is partnering with ChatGPT

• Will personalize music and podcast recommendations

• Available on an opt-in basis
October 9, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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#metabrainzmeetingnotes, 2025-10-06

Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting!

Agenda: Reviews
community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from...
October 6, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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#ListenBrainzServerUpdate, v-2025-10-06.0

After implementing Funkwhale, GSoC student mAmanullah7 has now added #Navidrome BrainzPlayer support! Open source self-hosters rejoice!
There's also a bunch more great lil user-facing tweaks and updates, check 'em at the link -a

github.com/metabrainz/l...
A mockup of a open ListenBrainz ‘box’ with a screenshot of the new artist evolution graph popping out, with the Internet Archive logo, with text: “new release v-2025-10-06.0”.
October 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Is this the release/track in MusicBrainz with the most musicians credited?

musicbrainz.org/release/f570...

Hats off to Libra for adding this monster -a
Release “Undertale” by InstrumentManiac - MusicBrainz
YT video release, 2025, Format: Digital Media, Year: 2025, Label: [no label], Length: 8:34
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October 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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#metabrainzmeetingnotes, 2025-09-29

Back after a break for the summit!
Of particular note, we are looking for book/data nerds to test and feed back on new beta #BookBrainz API: api.bookbrainz.org 👀

Agenda: Reviews
community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from...
September 30, 2025 at 12:44 AM