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I never thought I would see the day.

The amazing Julian45 has pulled our Wiki out of the dark ages (#waybackmachine that puppy and see if you can spot the difference!) -a

wiki.musicbrainz.org/Guides/Users...
Guides/Userscripts - MusicBrainz Wiki
wiki.musicbrainz.org
December 10, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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listenbrainz.org
#ListenBrainzServerUpdate, v-2025-12-10.0

look at this lil' guy -a

github.com/metabrainz/l...
A mockup of a ListenBrainz ‘box’ with the text: “New Release, v-2025-12-10.0”
December 10, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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listenbrainz.org
#ListenBrainzServerUpdate, v-2025-12-08.0

Do you have a github account? PROVE IT by leaving a react on this respectable pile of backend and doc updates -a

github.com/metabrainz/l...
A mockup of a ListenBrainz ‘box’ with the text: “New Release, v-2025-12-08.0”
December 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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#metabrainzmeetingnotes, 2025-12-08

Welcome to another MetaBrainz Monday Meeting

Agenda: Reviews
community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from...
December 8, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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musicbrainz.org
#memebrainz -a
A screenshot of two tweets from the account “it would be crazy if this were maia (@awawawhoami).” The first tweet says “queers, tag yourself” and shows a white selection box containing a list of checkboxes with label options: Front, Booklet, Obi, Track, Tray, Poster, Watermark, Matrix/Runout, Bottom, Back, Medium, Spine, Other, Sticker, Liner, Raw/Unedited, and Top. The second tweet says “If you know where this screenshot is from you're a fucking nerd.”
December 3, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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listenbrainz.org
Spotify #wrapped is out! Our #YearinMusic, as always, is out in Jan with a full 12 months of listens.

If you're feeling impatient there is a wonderful community tool you can use right now:
Alistral CLI tools (YiM update!) by @rustynova.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy - github.com/RustyNova016... -a
GitHub - RustyNova016/Alistral: Power tools for Listenbrainz
Power tools for Listenbrainz. Contribute to RustyNova016/Alistral development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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listenbrainz.org
#ListenBrainzServerUpdate, v-2025-12-02.0

A respectable pile of miscellaneous fixes and improvements. I calculate that your overall ListenBrainz experience will now be 0.3834% smoother. TRULY NOW YOU CAN FEEL GENTLE CARESS AND STRONG POWER OF LISTENBRAINZ -a

github.com/metabrainz/l...
A mockup of a ListenBrainz ‘box’ with the text: “New Release, v-2025-12-02.0”
December 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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listenbrainz.org
A heart-warming read about an open source journey! Thanks jxself ! -s

jxself.org/ipod.shtml
jxself.org
December 2, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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musicbrainz.org
#memebrainz - this memz courtesy of @glabnob.bsky.social -a
An image of clippy, the paper clip with eyes that is a helper-icon in more ways than one. His speech bubble says "it looks like you're trying to add your 43rd release of the day! is everything alright?"
December 2, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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#metabrainzmeetingnotes, 2025-12-01

Lotsa stuff, including: YiM '25 progress, Picard plugins V3 progress, mora.jp provider for harmony, and draft LLM pull request guideline discussion. -a

Agenda: Reviews, LLM code contribution guidelines
community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from...
community.metabrainz.org
December 2, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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musicbrainz.org
#memebrainz -a
A two part-image. The first part has the mum and dad from rugrats. The dad is stirring a pot in the kitchen, and the mum stands in the doorway with her arms spread. They are both in bathrobes. Subtitle text reads "it's four o'clock in the morning. Why on earth are you [fixing olsen twins releases?]" The part about olsen twins releases has been obviously copied over what was there before. In the second panel the father is talking and the subtitle reads "because I've lost control of my life"
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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musicbrainz.org
#memebrainz is brought to you courtesy of users in chatbrainz -a
a picture of Ariel the mermaid holding a fork. text in meme format reads "look at this stuff isn't it neat? wouldn't you think I could add this to musicbrainz?"
November 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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listenbrainz.org
#ListenBrainzServerUpdate, v-2025-11-29.0

We have added a listen rejection queue to fix errors with the timescale_writer. Aren't you glad you read this!? -a

github.com/metabrainz/l...
A mockup of a ListenBrainz ‘box’ with the text: “New Release, v-2025-11-29.0”
November 29, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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listenbrainz.org
#ListenBrainzServerUpdate, v-2025-11-27.0

Two new listen history file importers (listenbrainz.org/settings/imp... ):
- #PanoScrobbler
- #Maloja
Importers now report imported / rejected totals.

+ Refactored parts of our web player and a slew of other bug fixes. -a

github.com/metabrainz/l...
A mockup of a ListenBrainz ‘box’ with the text: “New Release, v-2025-11-27.0”
November 27, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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listenbrainz.org
We had a hiccup today with incoming listens starting at 6PM CET, but fret not!
The listens you sent are safe and sound and being ingested as we speak.
It might take a couple of hours to catch up to the backlog. — M
November 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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musicbrainz.org
Cool!

"researchers linked participants' responses to MusicBrainz... to classify them into 256 musical genres and then cross-referenced the results with personality traits..."

Hopefully they checked the genres first 😜 -a

phys.org/news/2025-11...
Study finds a connection between musical tastes and political leanings
When you share your favorite Spotify playlist with your friends, you aren't just sending musical vibes; you may be revealing something about your political attitudes.
phys.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
metabrainz.org
#metabrainzmeetingnotes, 2025-11-24

Lots of reviews, one in particular that you'll be very happy about - zas' bot-detector is stable and deployed! Here's hoping that those awful AI/bot-crawler slowdowns are a thing of the past -a

Agenda: Reviews
community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from...
Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2025-11-24
Meeting start: IRC Logs for #metabrainz | MetaBrainz Chatlogs Meeting wiki page: MetaBrainz Meeting - MusicBrainz Wiki Agenda Reviews Last meeting: 2025-11-17 Next meeting: 2025-12-01 @reosarevo...
community.metabrainz.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 AM
metabrainz.org
#metabrainzmeetingnotes, 2025-11-17

This one's a doozy! Heaps of people have been busy, mayhem resigned from the EU open source academy, and zas has worked on a bot/AI detector that was snuck into prod to test. Didn't notice? Success! -a

Agenda: Reviews
community.metabrainz.org/t/notes-from...
Notes from #MetaBrainz Meeting 2025-11-17
Meeting start: IRC Logs for #metabrainz | MetaBrainz Chatlogs Meeting wiki page: MetaBrainz Meeting - MusicBrainz Wiki Agenda Reviews Last meeting: 2025-11-10 Next meeting: 2025-11-24 @reosarevo...
community.metabrainz.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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archive.org
Planning your week? Cory Doctorow’s #booktalk on ENSHITTIFICATION is your chance to learn who broke the internet & how we can fix it.

The concept was the 2023 Word of the Year & an inspiration for the 2025 season of Black Mirror.

📆 Nov 21st
🕙 10 AM PST
📍 Online
www.eventbrite.com/e/1839608451...
Cover for the book “Enshittification” by Cory Doctorow, featuring a poop emoji with symbols representing expletives. Text reads “Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It.”
November 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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listenbrainz.org
#ListenBrainzServerUpdate, v-2025-11-17.0

Some small updates, including a 'create account' link in the side nav (when logged out) and an option to include albums with no covers in your Art Creator cover grids (listenbrainz.org/explore/art-...). -a

github.com/metabrainz/l...
A mockup of a ListenBrainz ‘box’ with the text: “New Release, v-2025-11-17.0”
November 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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merlin.toot.kif.rocks.ap.brid.gy
huh, you can download the entire MusicBrainz Postgres Dump and just self host it. Nice.
November 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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humanbojack.spyr.dev
Non mais mettre des crawlers sur des sites alors que les datasets de données sont libres mdrr
November 14, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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listenbrainz.org
PSA: We are redesigning our #YearInMusic page this year.

One consequence is that previous YiM pages are going away (all will be collated into the new YiM page/design, rather than having separate pages).

If you liked the designs from previous YiM, now is the time to save those images and pages! -a
November 15, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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musicbrainz.org
Our lovely server team (aka Zas and Julian) are hard at work on this issue. Unfortunately it's not quite as simple as running [product x], but they are on it. Thank you so much for your ongoing patience!

And f AI scrapers -a
musicbrainz.org MusicBrainz @musicbrainz.org · Jul 3
Have you ever wondered “was the recent MB slowdown due to mass-IP AI crawling again?”
The answer is almost always “yes” -a
November 14, 2025 at 9:31 PM